Digest of papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatry Association (San Francisco, California, March 23-26, 1970). (RD)

A review of Classroom Teaching and Learning: A Mental Health Approach," by Laurel N. Tanner and Henry Clay Lindgren. (MB)

What educators can do, and what not to do. (Editor)

Case studies illustrate use of positive reinforcement to improve academic achievement of a low achieving 9-year-old boy, and use of group contingency procedures to modify deviant behavior of a fourth-grade boy. (KW)

Analysis of the data indicated that parent ratings clearly differentiate child patients from their siblings and from nonclinic children on three of four Behavior Problem Checklist factor scales: Conduct Disorder, Personality Disorder, and Inadequacy-Immaturity. Parents rated nonclinic children as more deviant than siblings of child patients.…

Examined are two alternatives to the use of electric shock to control destructive or repugnant behaviors in severely retarded or schizophrenic children: continued use of noncorporal punishment, and widescale application of appropriately arranged contingencies of positive reinforcement. (KW)

Achievement-impeding classroom behaviors in France and the United States were analyzed and compared. (KW)

Condensed from a report of a 1971 conference sponsored by the U.S. Office of Child Development and the U.S. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. (Editor)

The author discusses an experimental revision of the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides, a classification of maladjusted behavior in the early 195o,s. (Author)