Presidential address given at annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors, Los Angeles, April 25, 1970. (IR)

Report of conference sponsored by the Office of Child Development and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., January 11-12, 1971. (CB)

Counselor education currently does not have a training model that is systematically employed and contains provisions for individual differences or promotes the development of programs for facilitating transfer of training. In the proposed model, counselor educators must decide which of the counseling student's behaviors will become the focus of…

Research has shown that behavior can be successfully modified if behavioral goals are specified and the behavior is broken down into small workable units. This report presents a case study in which the method of successive approximations was used with a young male client to develop public speaking ability. (Author)

The author proposes a counseling unit adapted to include disadvantaged youth's need for immediate gratification by payment for participation in intensive counseling. This counseling setting provides an opportunity for the method of successive approximations toward less frequent payment and finally toward payment on a regular fixed interval basis.…

Learning theory can be an effective tool in dealing with problem behavior, in this case school phobia. Social reinforcement techniques were used by counselors and teachers to obtain and maintain improved attendance. (CJ)