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I J Mansdorf

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PubMed1986

Assertiveness training in the treatment of a child's tics.

Tic activity has long been an area for clinical intervention by behavior therapists. Most techniques have involved approaches that require direct focusing on the tic itself (e.g. habit reversal). For some people, however, such a direct focus may not be clinically appropriate. This article describes a child who, in addition to suffering from tics, was also extremely unassertive. It was observed that unassertive behavior often preceded tic activity. Assertiveness training provided the child with a self-control technique with which he was able to control and eventually eliminate his tic activity.

Assertiveness↗
PubMed1977

Learning concepts through modeling: using different instructional procedures with institutionalized mentally retarded adults.

A group of severely retarded institutionalized adults was exposed to three different types of instructional procedures (imaginal instruction, verbal instruction, no instruction) and three types of reinforcement procedures (no reinforcement, reinforcing correct responses, reinforcing all responses) in learning concepts through modeling. Concept acquisition was tested, using Leiter-type items, in direct imitation as well as in a generalization task. In both imitation and generalization conditions, imaginal instructions were more effective than verbal instructions, which in turn were more effective than no instructions. The study of modeling procedures, especially with regard to the use of imagery, is called for in order to investigate the processes involved in their effectiveness with a severely retarded population.

Concept Formation↗