The usefulness of providing specific information and a progress/feedback mechanism to control utility usage in community-based, halfway houses for dependent-neglected and for delinquent adolescents was explored. The investigation was carried out in a random sample of 12 houses of an Arizona facility, divided into equivalent groups of three houses.…

A program designed to teach money skills to the mentally retarded individual who already has the ability to count at least 20 objects is presented. An overview of the program is provided along with a list of the program goals and a section on training paraprofessionals to use the program. An evaluation instrument is included to assess the…

This paper offers a rationale and introduction to three innovative techniques which provide initial counseling experiences to trainees in the helping professions. The development of a cooperative program with the drama department to train and utilize drama students as coached clients is described as the first technique. The second technique is…

This manual provides suggestions for workshops for teaching parents, youth leaders, and teachers to teach critical television viewing skills. It is based on materials produced by the Critical TV Viewing Skills Project sponsored by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. The manual contains an overview of the project and a discussion of…

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY, WHICH SUPERSEDES EARLIER HUMRRO BIBLIOGRAPHIES, IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS. PART I IS A SEPARATE LISTING OF FY 1967 PUBLICATIONS, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY UNDER CODE NAME, OR TYPE OF RESEARCH OTHER THAN WORK UNIT, OR UNDER A GENERAL SECTION. PAPERS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS THAT WERE PUBLISHED IN FY 1967 AS PROFESSIONAL PAPERS ARE…

This manual describes the academic and clinical curricula used for the past several years in a child mental health specialist training program. The materials focus on: (1) philosophy of the training program; (2) skills and competencies needed by child mental health specialists; and (3) orientation activities for the trainees. The program is…

Differences were compared in the short-term and long-term responses of subjects with headache, insomnia, or hypertension to biofeedback training, relaxation, or a combination of both. Headache sufferers, insomniacs, and hypertensives were randomly assigned in equal numbers to biofeedback, relaxation training or a record-keeping control. Over 2…

The learning module described is designed to help the classroom teacher make maximal use of teacher aides. The content of the module is outlined, and the activities and resources involved in its use are described. Ordering information and a critique of the module are included in this descriptive report. (JD)

There are training dilemmas which are characteristic of medical settings. Clinical psychology students interning in a hospital setting are unfamiliar with the hospital culture, and the demands of patient care require a practical active approach. Experiences with training clinical psychologists to consult with pediatricians are reviewed. Disparate…

This trainee's manual is designed to assist those helping professionals responsible for the vocational rehabilitation of drug abusers, including counseling, job development, and job placements. The learning modules focus on the following areas of concern: (1) client assessment, treatment planning, vocational guidance and counseling, and ancillary…

The use of training groups in counselor education was evaluated by assessing trainees' (N=12) ratings of the usefulness of the group in terms of its objectives, their comments regarding the personal benefits of participating in the group, and their gains on the Tc and I scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). Results indicated that…

These materials, consisting of a trainer's manual and a participant's manual, are designed to meet the need for a balanced approach to training counselors and other helping professionals in group counseling and group facilitation skills. The emphasis of these materials is on the experiential aspect of training through exercises designed to promote…

This paper is a progress report on a series of experiments which have sought to probe the cognitive development of mildly mentally retarded and normal children, using conservation training as the principal research tool. Three- and 4-year-old children were given Verbal Rule instruction in a 2 x 2 x 2 design intended to probe the importance of…

After a brief review of the literature the research proposal focuses on the comparative effectiveness of non-verbal positive reinforcement vs. verbal negative reinforcement in the reduction of self-inflicted injury on 23 elementary age autistic children. In the two phase study each child would be paired by age, sex, length of time in school,…

In research to test the link between children's failure to engage in comparison activity and their poor communication performance, elementary school students were trained to engage in comparison activity to learn whether such training would improve their referential communication accuracy. Two training experiments with third and fourth grade…