Family context therapy attempts to change environmental conditions that cause or accentuate family difficulties and to construct contexts that promote family well-being. This approach moves the center of family interventions from the arena of the clinical office into the larger society, to helping agencies and institutions for therapeutic effort.…

In part one of this two-part paper, skills which distress couples need in order to more effectively solve their marital problems were enumerated. In this section, the technology for helping couples to learn to solve problems more effectively is discussed. (Author)

Four methods of computing life change for one- and two-year periods were tested with two measures of college grades. The relationship between life change and grades appears to be that of a threshold effect. Above a certain level of life change, increasing change is inversely related to grades. (Author/BW)

The present study investigated the effects on socially incompetent college students (N=20) of a group program that used social-learning theory and behavior-rehearsal techniques. Significant gains in social competence were shown. (Author)

This investigation compared the relative effectiveness of group-administered cue-controlled relaxation and group systematic desensitization in the treatment of speech anxiety. Also examined was the role of professional versus paraprofessional counselors in implementing the treatment program. A description of the cue-controlled relaxation technique…

Evidence from both normal and incongruous gender differentiation shows that a rehabilitative rather than a curative approach may be an effect form of treatment for some gender transpositions. The approach to gender disturbances is consonant with the American Psychiatric Association's discontinuance of defining all homosexuality as a disease.…

Increasingly, practitioners in the helping professions are altering traditional behavior modification techniques through the use of an educational model. The author believes that by doing so, a more humanistic approach to behavior modification is achieved. (Author)

A project is reported in which students consurrently enrolled in a course in psychological foundations and in student teaching received a concentrated consumer's course in systematic behavior management with emphasis on application. Performance objectives are described. (LBH)

Analyzes the use of behavioral self-modification projects in college classes. Such projects are attempts by students to apply the principles of behavioral psychology to their own behavior. Discussed are impact of projects on student learning, extent of student behavior change, and adequacy of research design. (Author/AV)

The literature clearly reveals that children can effectively produce behavioral changes in their peers and directly benefit from the experience. Research is needed to gain a better understanding of the ways child agents produce change in their proteges and the impact of their activities on non-target behaviors and non-target children. (EVH)

Systematic observations of parent-child interaction collected in the homes of 25 families who participated in a parent-mediated social reprogramming treatment project for aggressive boys were used to assess changes in parent consequences for child behavior. (Author)

Single-subject experimental methodology was used to evaluate the relationship between distinct patterns of deviant sexual arousal and heterosexual arousal. The theoretical and clinical implications of a functional independence among various patterns of sexual arousal are discussed. (Author)

Self-modeling requires the production of a videotape in which the subject is seen to perform in a model way. A 4-year-old "hyperactive" boy, initially under psychotropic medication, was unable to role play suitable behaviors. Video editing was used to produce a videotape that when watched by the subject, had therapeutic effects as compared with an…

More counselors must become aware of the effects of power relationships in counseling and decide when and how to avoid them. (Author)