Examined the vocational interests and personality characteristics of 69 homeless unemployed men using the Vocational Preference Inventory. Results indicated significant occupational interest, comparable to data reported on employed adults and numerous vocational "types." Personality scales, however, were indicative of possible behavioral…

The overall results indicated high academic performance under either contingency arrangement when compared to a nontreatment baseline condition. Comparisons between the individual and group contingency conditions revealed a slightly higher number of words spelled correctly during the group contingency procedures. (Author)

Two multiple baseline designs, one across three normal and the other across three deviant children, showed that self-monitoring of academic task completions facilitated on task responding for all Ss in the generalization (classroom) setting. (Author)

Addresses the ubiquitous practices of trait inference and labeling, inference of motives, and the conceptual division of prosocial and antisocial behavior into dichotomous entities. In the case of children who are "acting-out" at an excessively high frequency, these alternatives are more humane and useful in a pragmatic, scientific sense.…

The considerable gap between educational policy regarding discipline techniques and the reality of the classroom is explored. (LH)

A review of research on the relationship between behavior disorders and allergy and food additives. (CM)

Classroom teachers and school mental health specialists must be better equipped to determine which students who practice deviant behavior are behaviorally disordered and which students are experiencing faulty social perception. (Author/PHR)

Differential reinforcement of appropriate behavior was used in combination with a naturalistic restitution procedure utilizing victim participation to reduce the assaultive and interpersonal sexual behavior and genital self stimulation of an adolescent Down's syndrome male in a school setting. (Author/DLS)

The study examined behavior disorders of learning disabled (N=94) and normal (N=2,991) children in Grades K through 8, using the behavior problem checklist. Learning disabled youngsters had significantly more problems on four of the five checklist dimensions (conduct problems, personality problems, inadequacy-immaturity, and psychotic signs).…

Response prevention treatment was used at home, with parents acting as therapists, to eliminate ritualistic behavior in an eight-year-old girl. (MP)

The investigators attempted to employ strategies that would attack identified perpetrators of school violence and vandalism existing within schools. Results indicated that the dollar costs of vandalism and frequency of inappropriate student behavior decreased more in experimental than in control schools. (Author)

A methodology is described to utilize dormitory parents in direct care activities for the early intervention of behavioral problems of the school-age child. (MM)

The pros and cons of corporal punishment as a discipline policy in the schools are discussed. (DS)

Elementary school teachers trained in a class management program changed behaviors and improved student performance in both handicapped and nonhandicapped pupils in mainstreamed classrooms. (JD)

The article presents an approach (the Fagen-Long Curriculum) to developing skills for self-control as a means of preventing and reducing emotional and behavioral disorders in schools. (SBH)