The two groups of children and adolescents seen for emergency psychiatric treatment were studied in an attempt to determine what constitutes an emergency in child psychiatry, whose anxiety initiates consultation, what the precipitating factors are and how they can be predicted, and to ascertain who is crucial to the management of these problems.…

The Counseling Service of Addison County, a community mental health clinic, began in 1966 as a four-year project under a National Institutes of Mental Health grant to determine whether emotional problems could be prevented by the early assignment of college student volunteers (from Middlebury College) to underachievers in the early grades of…

The booklet provides information on a number of strategies for teachers to use in managing disruptive behaviors in the classroom. In the first section several approaches (such as token economies) are discussed that pertain to the general, comprehensive management of classes. Included in Section II are several strategies (including taking away…

The manual presents guidelines for teachers and administrators in public schools for dealing with behaviorally disordered students. Among the topics discussed are the legal basis for providing education services for such students (including the State of Missouri Education for the Handicapped Act and the Federal Education for All Handicapped Act),…

This book provides (1) specific information about overt classroom behaviors that affect or reflect academic success or failure, and (2) information and suggestions about alternative teaching strategies that may be used to increase behavioral effectiveness and subsequent academic achievement. The focus of the book is on specific behaviors, behavior…

Previous research has shown that certain counseling methods, unlike behavioral counseling procedures, have been unsuccessful in improving the sociometric status of unpopular and uncooperative elementary students. This study attempted to assess the effectiveness of behavioral counseling. Forty elementary students were identified as unpopular and…

The efficacy of a self-management program emphasizing self-assessment and self-recording was investigated with a class of nine behaviorally disordered boys (10-13 years old). Following baseline and untrained self-record phases, two training phases in which Ss were reinforced for accurate self-recording were implemented. A final self-record phase…

Current and projected manpower shortages within the field of mental health suggest a greater role for paraprofessionals. But, without careful evaluation and precise training, added manpower will not solve any of the problems facing psychology in overcoming the limits to the delivery of services. These two papers review several attempts to evaluate…

Thirty-six students at a continuation high school were identified as predelinquents and selected as subjects on the basis of their poor attendance and academic records. Pretreatment and posttreatment data were collected on the following variables: attendance figures and academic credits. Following preliminary assessment, the subjects were randomly…

The effectiveness of the reinforcing of low rates of responding (DRL) in the reduction of unacceptable behaviors was demonstrated with two students in regular first and second grade classes. Ss were given play-time reinforcement when the total number of disruptions (such as fighting with other students) during a session were below the DRL limit.…

A contract and point system were used to decrease the pilfering behavior of an 11-year-old boy. Under the contract system, the boy kept a daily record of his progress and earned points toward a trip to the planetarium. After introduction of the contract the pilfering dropped from at least two times a week to none at all. (LS)

The North Carolina Advancement School set about to redefine underachievement and to describe underachievers. These three papers report their progress. The first discusses research which emphasizes describing the phenomenon academically, psychologically, physically and behaviorally. Major emphasis was devoted to measuring psychological factors such…

Speeches presented at the international convention of the Council for Exceptional Children in Chicago, 1970 are reported. Papers are concerned with medical views of children with minimal brain dysfunction by C. Arden Miller, medical intervention in maladaptive classroom behavior by Kenneth Zike, medical intervention and the pediatrician's role in…

To determine the effects of various quantities of teacher instruction (with behavior problem children) following correct and incorrect answers, two elementary school children in a special education classroom were studied. Four teaching conditions were studied for percentage of errors: giving much instruction following incorrect answers and little…

In order for teachers to be of assistance to disturbed children it is necessary that they recognize behavioral manifestations indicative of emotional disturbances and become familiar with those approaches which have been attempted in in order to select the approach which appears most applicable to the individual child. The author describes the…