The task implementation sequence (TIS), a major refinement of task-centered casework, is a powerful technique for accelerating therapeutic change by removing barriers before they arise. The cognitive approach, which has particular promise in surmounting psychological barriers, has been highlighted and illustrated with a case vignette. (Author)

Presents one-year follow-up of clients completing a behavioral weight reduction program at Stanford University's Eating Disorders Clinic. Clients maintained in-treatment weight loss over the follow-up period, but there was marked variability and a low correlation between in-treatment and posttreatment performance. Clients reported significant…

Successful programs of continuing professional education must involve both the improvement of the learner's competence and the restructuring of the work environment to stimulate, encourage, recognize, and reward improved performance. (Journal availability: Subscription Manager, MOBIUS, University of California Press, Berkeley CA 94720.) (SK)

Reviews literature related to modeling in a rehabilita- tive setting. Suggests modeling effectiveness is influenced by sex, prestige, and able-bodiedness of the models. Both live and film models prove effective. Modeling is applicable to social, emotional, educational, and vocational problems. Different disability groups react to models in…

Evaluates effectiveness of training in active listening skills. Couples trained in the skills became significantly more accurate in their perceptions of spouses' attitudes and feelings. Results indicate that greater accuracy did not have a significant effect on marital adjustment. (Author)

Participants in sensitivity training reported more change after training than before and these changes were more positively evaluated than change prior to training. Changes after training were seen as more personally caused. These effects were particularly marked for behaviors that were positively evaluated. (Author)

This task force report presents 10 issues considered important to nutrition education: goals, approaches, advocacy, coordination, training, financing, research, evaluation, follow-up, and information linkages. (SA)

This article focuses on the characteristics of the nutritional background of the American public. Issues and recommendations are presented that are intended to describe the goals and target groups for nutrition education in the 1980s. (SA)

To test the theory that children's behavioral cues influence adult responses to them, responses of a mother sample and a student sample to children depicted in danger and nondanger situations were analyzed. Significant differences in types of responses were examined for their implications for the training of child caregivers. (Author/SK)

Choice Awareness is a cognitive-affective-behavioral system that goes beyond both communication training and behavioral bartering approaches to marriage enrichment. Couples explore thoughts, feelings, and actions in their relationships and develop personal power in making choices and in taking responsibility for their own lives. (Author)

Allowing immediate alleviation of abuse when only one adult family member is in contact with the assisting agency, this model provides for restructuring the parenting style to increase the probabilities of permanent change. (Author)

Describes the use of job enrichment techniques as tools for increased productivity and organizational change. The author's motivational work design model changes not only the job design but also structural elements such as physical layout, workflow, and organizational relationships. Behavior change is more important than job enrichment. (MF)

The effects of social skills training upon the behavior of eight previously institutionalized mentally retarded adults residing in community group homes were evaluated. In comparison to a control group, the Ss who received training showed substantial changes in the desirable direction for each behavior. (Author)

Two procedures were used to compare the effects of differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) and differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) on self-injurious behavior (SIB) of three profoundly retarded head bangers (ages 8 and 24 years) in a multiple schedule within-subjects design. (Author/PHR)

The Student Participation and Counselling Effort (SPACE), a peer interaction approach to classroom behavior crises, was successfully used in a small rural school to help adolescent students manage their own behavior. (CL)