Results indicated that the average child manifests a few of each type of deviant behavior, but rarely shows a large number of behaviors related to any one type of disorder. Deviant behavior was inversely associated with intelligence, but minimally affected by race, socioeconomic status and age. (Author)

The author suggests that human beings could eliminate their usual feelings of disturbance and upsetness and retain their appropriate feelings of disappointment and annoyance if they stop demanding and awfulizing" reality and dictating that it be other than it indubitably is. (Author/CG)

Describes intervention program in which unpaid, untrained, and minimally supervised volunteers served in a one to one helping relationship with children manifesting behavioral problems. Although the program failed to have a substantial overall therapeutic impact, children displaying a high incidence of inadequate immature" behavior showed marked…

Thirty behavior problems were ranked according to severity by 165 eighth-grade boys and girls, 82 teachers, and 45 psychologists. A significant positive correlation was found between teachers' and psychologists' rankings. (Author/WY)

This study showed that it was possible to predict the rehabilitation of socially maladjusted boys with 75 percent accuracy. (Author)

Discusses legal basis of project IMPACT (program for improvement of attendance and curtailment of truancy) in terms of advantages and pitfalls; the District Committee in terms of its objectives, organization and functioning; and observations in retrospect of successes, failures and clues for future. Case study presented. (Author)

The research focuses on the inappropriate, largely aggressive, behaviors of 344 K-2 children assigned to a playground prior to the beginning of the school day. It was found that games, rope jumping, and foot racing, along with an infrequently used time-out procedure, significantly reduced the frequency of inappropriate incidents. (Author)

The literature and court cases point to the need for discipline alternatives for handicapped students other than suspension and expulsion. As more cases come to court, and as more specific policies are formulated, the discipline dilemma between this need and actual practice should be resolved. (JOW)

Twenty-four undergraduate students in special education interacted with a child confederate while solving three tasks with the child either exhibiting distractible or ontask behavior. Analysis of the data using multivariate analysis of variance techniques supported the hypothesis that adults respond differently to particular characteristics of…

Compared assaultive adolescents (N=17) and nonassaultive (N=12) adolescents on a measure of family structure, assessing family perceptions of the authority hierarchy and amount of closeness and distance between family members. Results demonstrated that the experimental group significantly more often perceived a reversal in the generational…