Benefits from in-company training programs depend on the instructor's effectiveness, participant application of theory to practice, and the superior-subordinate relationship. The article focuses on such program to demonstrate results. (Author/JB)

The major finding of the study is that, although encounter groups have an impact on their participants, what is carried away from the experience depends on particular characteristics of the group in interaction with what participants bring to it. (Author)

This article may be useful to workers who need to help young children to accept dental care. (Editor)

Proceeeding through each chapter of B.F. Skinner's book, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, the author presents selected quotations and then discusses Skinner's main contribution to cognitive-behavior therapy. (CB)

Important findings of the study indicate that regular cigarette smokers yield less to any smoking behavior changes than do the occasional smokers and well organized and executed anti smoking education programs should start as early as the eighth grade. (Author)

The major concern of the study was to determine what differences, if any, in independent reading-work behaviors were observed between baseline and experimental conditions using the Rules, Ignore, Praise technique with two seven year old children. During the reinforcement period children worked harder. Bibliography. (Author/AF)

The use of the Work Box, time out," and associated procedures to alter specific, inappropriate behavior begins a chain of events in which the child emits appropriate classroom behavior which is rewarded by his social environment. The adaptive behavior continues after intervention because the significant persons in the child's environment have…

Suggests a 5-stage sequence of development from a total lack of recognition of the need for secrecy and deceptiveness in the first stage to the fifth stage in which the child was competitive and attempted to outwit the opponent by utilizing an irregular shifting strategy. (Author/WY)