Intervention packages-planned units of instruction and practice designed to deal with specific student problems-offer a systematic economical strategy for counseling. This article suggest guidelines for developing and administering intervention packages. (Author)

Presents a useful psychological model of managerial behavior using the concepts of Gestalt psychology. (AN)

Reports a test of the efficacy of time-limited, cognitive-behavioral group treatment with parents who maltreat their children. Intervention focused on providing access to models of effective parenting, giving detailed feedback on parenting skills, building social skills, promoting awareness of cognitive precursors of anger, and enhancing…

The authors examine the importance of self-direction in education and review efforts to activate this skill in severely mentally retarded pupils, 16-19 years old. Such an approach to develop shared regulation in the curriculum features such strategies as verbal elaboration, imagery, auditory rehearsal, clustering, and sequencing. (CL)

Argues that in order to understand how the capacity for altruism develops and comes under self-control it is necessary first to understand the nature and development of the self-control. (MP)

Skin temperature biofeedback performance was studied in 38 6- to 10-year-old children and 38 of their parents across two sessions of audio biofeedback segments in which participants alternately attempted hand-warming and hand-cooling. Children were superior to adults in controlling skin temperature in the presence of biofeedback. (Author/DB)

Learning disabled (LD) children react to hurt and rejection by selecting from a number of poor choices, including giving up or throwing a tantrum. A teacher can help the LD child through a reality program which includes 10 steps to better control. (CL)

Assessed the utility of alpha biofeedback training in the treatment of patients (N=66). Biofeedback and placebo biofeedback groups were given alpha or mock-alpha training sessions. Improvement on 54 variables was compared to that of no-treatment controls. Only a chance number of significant changes appeared among the groups. (Author)

Subjects were assigned to conditions based on smoking rates: self-monitoring nicotine plus health hazard information; self-monitoring cigarettes plus health information; and self-monitoring cigarettes with no health information. Nicotine self-monitoring groups showed greater reactivity. Exposure to health hazard information had no effect. (Author)

Compared rapid smoking (overt aversion), covert sensitization (symbolic aversion), and a combination of the two in a self-punishment procedure for eliminating cigarette smoking. Training sessions were spaced over a one-month period. The overt group achieved significantly greater reduction than the symbolic group. The combined group did not differ…

The effects of age, modeling, tuition, and sanctions on self-control of motor behavior were examined among children 6, 7, 9, and 11 years of age. Among the results, activation latency and inhibition error were influenced most by the actions of the model and the introduction of a negative sanction, and less by tuition. (Author/RH)

Describes how the discipline and sacrifice involved in playing competitive basketball can promote a continuing, self-rewarding challenge and test for the players and others involved. (JD)

The relative effectiveness of two types of self-verbalized instruction in controlling deviant behavior was assessed developmentally for 28 first-grade and 20 second-grade boys. (JMB)

Results showed that while preschool children's self-control was less effective in waiting conditions when rewards were available for attention, presence of rewards facilitated self-control in the working conditions. (JMB)

The authors respond to their colleagues' critiques of a self-control curriculum for students with learning or emotional disorders. (SBH)