Before behavioral engineering can be used as an approach to solving classroom problems, it is incumbent upon all teachers to challenge its use, to determine its appropriateness in a learning setting, and to assess its potential effects on human dignity and human freedom. (Author/RK)

Examined are the ethical and legal parameters which need to be considered by teachers before implementing timeout procedures with behavior problem children in the classroom. (Author/DB)

Avocational (leisure) counseling assists individuals with leisure attitudinal and/or behavioral problems with choosing and effectively participating in an avocation. Avocational counseling has the task of developing theory, techniques, and tools for doing the job. The author discusses counseling psychologists and avocational counseling, an…

Reports on the Harewood Centre which has its origins in the West Riding experiment of seconding teachers to become educational social workers. (Editor/RK)

This article explores the possibility that the hyperactive child may be reacting to a home or school situation. (JD)

Among the phenomena covered are superstitious behavior, learned helplessness, experimental neurosis, anaclitic depression as a result of maternal separation, and physiological disturbances such as ulceration. (Author/AM)

The principle thesis of this paper is that an understanding of the functions of fantasy activities is critical to an understanding of the influence of television and other media upon behavior. (Author)

A racial riot occurred at a federal correctional institution in which the majority of participants were identified. A second group of blacks selected at random from the same institution and intentionally sought not to become involved served as controls. (Author)

Expectancy instructions were introduced six times during the four-week treatment, and effectiveness of these instructions was demonstrated with independent nonreactive measures of subjects' expectancies. An analysis of self-report, behavioral, and unobtrusive measures of snake anxiety revealed significant main effects for instructions, with…

A Head Start program, a diagnostic center, and the public schools worked together to meet the educational needs of a 4-year-old deaf boy with severe behavior problems. (CL)

Through analysis of behavior checklists completed by 90 teachers' 30 supervisors and psychologists, and 100 university students, behavior indicative of deviance in children was studied with respect to the relative degree of "disturbingness" which each was judged to reflect. (Author/SBH)

The oral opiate, naltrexone, was used in a double-blind placebo-controlled study with two young profoundly mentally adults who exhibited intractable self-injurious behavior. No measurable effects on the self-injurious behavior were observed. (Author/DB)

Mental illness has far-reaching effects on other family members although family impact of mental illness has not received much attention from sociologists. Applies an illness behavior perspective to the study of family burden, reviews knowledge, and invites research by defining a number of issues, substantive and methodological, that need to be…