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Modification of classroom behavior of institutionalized female adolescent offenders

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1968
Abstract A highly reliable time sampling assessment technique, which dichotomized classroom behavior into appropriate and inappropriate categories, was used to assess classroom behavior of institutionalized female adolescent offenders. Following a two week baseline period, an operant procedure was implemented in which money was used as a reinforcer ...
D H, Meichenbaum, K S, Bowers, R R, Ross
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A token reinforcement system for large wards of institutionalized adolescents

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1974
Abstract Problems associated with the application of token systems to large public institutions for male and female adolescents are discussed. The present experiments demonstrate that two specific behavior problems on an adolescent ward of a state hospital could be controlled through the use of contingent points via a rapid-delivery token procedure ...
R A, Aitchison, D R, Green
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Adolescent Rorschach Responses as a Function of Age at First Institutionalization

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1977
To test the hypothesis that age of first separation from a home environment is a factor in the emotional health of institutionalized boys, Rorschach protocols of 82 residents of Saint Francis Vocational School, a facility for deprived nondelinquent nonretarded youth aged 10 to 18, were examined.
L, Cohen, F J, Weiner
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Nutritional status of institutionalized children and adolescents with developmental disabilities

Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1989
The relationship was explored between anomalies associated with developmental disabilities and nutritional status of institutionalized children and adolescents who received comprehensive interdisciplinary services. Variables included dietary intake, serum laboratory values, anthropometric measurements, feeding skills assessment, and clinical assessment.
K A, Pesce, L A, Wodarski, M, Wang
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Motivating institutionalized adolescents for psychotherapy.

Adolescence, 1985
In the study of psychotherapy, one surely must come to appreciate the importance of client motivation. Intuitively, its value in obtaining a successful outcome would seem unquestioned. Nonetheless, motivation for treatment has not received the attention in the literature that its importance might warrant.
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Restraint and seclusion with institutionalized adolescents.

Adolescence, 1991
Tens of thousands of the nation's young people are placed in psychiatric and criminal justice programs annually. Within those settings, many confront an assortment of restraint and seclusionary measures. This paper discusses the population of young people exposed to such procedures and examines the implications within these settings and elsewhere.
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Behavior Therapy with High Level, Institutionalized, Retarded Adolescents

Exceptional Children, 1966
The thesis of this paper is that instrumental, nonverbal behavior can be modified by a deliberate, repetitive, and systematic conditioning of verbal behavior according to experimentally established principles of learning. Verbal aggression or obnoxiousness, when extinguished during therapy, will lead to the extinction of overt, motor aggression, since ...
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Depression, Anxiety and Self-esteem of Institutionalized and Non-institutionalized Lebanese Adolescents

It was previously predicted that adolescents living in institutional homes and orphanages, away from the typical nurturing environment in a family, would have more psychological symptoms than those living with their parents. A sample of Lebanese adolescents living in orphanages and institutional homes (AOI, n= 75) were compared to those living with ...
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Institutionalization: A Viable Alternative in the Treatment of Delinquent Adolescents?

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 1973
The present study used the Maslow hierarchy to evaluate relative need satisfaction of delinquent adolescents across different environ mental influences. The four most basic levels of the need hierarchy were utilized-physiological, physical safety and security, affec tion, and self-esteem.
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Role of Mindfulness, Religious Coping and Serenity in Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Elderly

Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 2021
Mahwesh Arooj Naz, Asiya Khalid
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