The intention of this article is to identify the main elements in the theme that the community college should guarantee learning and to question their implications. (Author)

Article discusses the social institutions and conditions responsible for shaping behavior and explains why punitive measures have been ineffective as rehabilitation directives. (Author)

The findings of this study support the hypothesis that a secondary school counselor can function effectively as a behavioral consultant to an inner city teacher. (Author)

A community-based group counseling program for offenders in St. Paul, Minnesota, has had promising results--both in rehabilitation and crime prevention. (Author)

Experience with 73 cases has shown the value of Transient Structured Distance as a maneuver in marriage therapy. While the TSD is a radical form of intervention with risks of anxiety reactions, homosexual panic, or divorce, it has proved effective with difficult forms of acute or chronic marital disharmony. (Author)

Treatment of married couples in groups by one therapist is described. Emphasis is placed on the fact that treatment problems and process in such groups are quite different from therapy groups in which the participants are not related outside the group and on the need to differentiate between couples' groups according to social and chronological…

Paper presented at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking held in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972, by American Cancer Society. (DS)

At the University of Denver last August, about fifty faculty members of North Central Association colleges and universities met in a two-week Workshop on College Teaching. The aim of the article is to carry forward the Workshop dialogue. (Author/CB)

Study demonstrated that a significant decrease in student inappropriate behavior could be accomplished through employment of a time-out from positive reinforcement procedure. (Authors)

Emphasizing immediacy of time and place of an experiment, operant behaviorism neglects the polymorphism of learning channels, social influence, exchange over time (diachrony) and over space (arbitrage), and institutions, and its proposed solutions disregard the complexities of culture. (Author/MB)

To increase performance, parents were instructed to present contingent consequences at home. Three methods were used for instructing parents in program management. All three methods resulted in increase in pupils' percent correct, but no substantial difference was observed as a function of mode of parent instruction. (Author)

The study investigated the response of college students to health information obtained in an informal setting as it related to visitation patterns in a student health service. (Author)

Provides diagnosis and treatment guidelines to safeguard against medication for purely repressive reasons. (Author/JH)

Describes a systems approach to reading instruction, employing programed materials and behavioristic concepts. (RB)