One of three documents in a series, the pamphlet presents an overview of the children's re-education center program in Tennessee. The program involves the application of behavior change principles to emotionally disturbed elementary school children with behavior problems while the children reside at the residential facility for an average duration…

A total of 1,170 psychoeducational prescriptions for various major learning and behavior problems of school children are presented. Intended to be of assistance to school, clinical, and educational psychologists and graduate students, the volume assumes a familiarity with childhood exceptionality and psychopathology. The prescriptions…

Hyperactivity continues to be one of the major symptoms presented to the school psychologist when children are referred for help. This paper discusses the development of a program of sequential motor exercises to train and develop the inhibitory function of the hyperactive child. The inhibitory training program is designed to follow the natural…

Reported were two experiments which investigated, respectively, the maintenance of appropriate classroom behavior in children with behavior problems following treatment in an experimental classroom and cross situational consistency and generalization of treatment effects. In the first experiment followup performances of two groups of five subjects…

The short manual designed for teachers of the handicapped focuses on management of individual behavior in the classroom and briefly explains principles of behavior change. Five basic steps in management are explained to be specification of problem behavior, counting the occurrence of the problem behavior, changing the problem behavior by…

Adlerians believe that change of any lasting value has a fundamental dependency on the client's awareness of how he incorrectly processes data in his life; he must develop the insight necessary to correct the errors in his life style. Also, the therapist must know the goals of the client's behavior in order to make relevant comments in therapy.…

Overcorrection is a mild punishment technique that provides for logical consequences of inappropriate behaviors. The method has two components--restitution, during which a disruptive environment is reinstated to a state vastly superior to the original one, and positive practice, during which more appropriate responses are taught to replace the…

This list cannot be used successfully by a poorly prepared teacher. It has the aim of reminding the teacher what to include in her report. It is not a substitute for training, experience, or perceptiveness - it brings the child's behavior into sharper focus. (Author/AM)

A case of a problem boy is presented. The author then describes how the school psychologist dealt with the case successfully by helping the parents and the teacher modify their approach to the boy. (SE)

Describes and discusses the benefits to young children and their parents of developing parent discussion groups, led by psychological consultants, as an adjunct to child care programs. (ED)

Describes the rationale and techniques of a therapy program designed to keep children with behavior and learning problems in regular classrooms for part of the school day. (BRT)

Student and practicing teachers rated severity of classroom misbehaviors ascribed to Black or White attractive or unattractive children. Following student teaching, ratings of Black children's transgressions increased in severity, and ratings of White children's transgressions remained the same. Practicing teachers were affected by student…

This article presents findings concerning the relationship between schools and psychotherapeutic agencies in a suburban community of the northeastern United States. Significant questions concerning the deviant defining institutions in American society, their relation to adolescents, and the social network created by their interdependence are…

The behaviors implicit in many boys' sex roles are oppositional to the behaviors required in the student role. The conflict results in the inability of the boy to assume the student role, and may result in his being identified as having an academic and/or behavioral problem. Teacher suggestions are given. (Author/LPG)