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McKee, John M. – 1967
Public offenders have special educational needs due to past histories of school failure, dropout, poverty, lack of home support, and an acquired aversion to formal education. Prison education programs, however, tend to follow traditional patterns of instruction. Educational or instructional technology deals with the problems of individualizing…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Correctional Education, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Educational Experiments
Download full textWotkiewicz, Helen; Minor, John A. – 1969
This paper describes a portion of the Kennedy Youth Center program concerned with motivating previously intractable sociopathic youths in the academic and industrial arts schools. Male delinquents considered uneducable in traditional education programs, have been advanced two years in the one year they spent as participants in the differential…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Correctional Education, Delinquency
Szurek, S.A., Ed.; Berlin, I.N., Ed. – 1969
Eighteen papers consider the antisocial child. The genesis of his behavior is discussed in terms of psychopathic personality trends, acting out, and sexual disorders; emotional factors in the use of authority and the contribution of controls to corrective learning are described. Efforts at psychiatric treatment are reviewed with reference to…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems
Killinger, George G.; And Others
The 12 papers in this collection are all concerned with various aspects of delinquency prevention, counseling, correction, and rehabilitation. Some of them had been presented at conferences, some pulled from other works. The first paper states that the pupil personnel worker should be the most important diagnostician and agent for change because…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminology
Bailey, Jon; And Others – 1970
A community-based program for youths in trouble, Achievement Place is a home-style training setting for pre-delinquents established on a token economy in which the boys earn various privileges by engaging in desirable behaviors that are seen as necessary for their eventual rehabilitation. Five pre-delinquents from Achievement Place attended a…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Delinquency Prevention
Nichols, Geoff – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1996
Reviews research related to the impact of outdoor adventure programs designed to reduce the criminal behavior of young persons. Suggests that a lack of specific cognitive skills predispose individuals to engage in criminal behavior and that a rational for adventure-based interventions should address such deficits as lack of interpersonal…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, At Risk Persons, Behavior Change, Change Strategies
Redl, Fritz – 1966
Espousing an interdisciplinary approach, the book contains selected writings, lectures, and speeches concerning clinical work with disturbed children and adolescents in institutional settings. Editorial comment introduces each of the following sections: a survey of the current status of the children's field both clinically and educationally; a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Children
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1989
The School-Community Guidance Center (SCGC) program was established in November 1984 to serve high-risk Austin (Texas) Independent School District students removed from their home campuses for school disciplinary reasons, or by juvenile justice authorities for purposes of probation or judicial detention. Two project specialists are assigned to the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Services, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Erickson, Susan; Harris, Buck – 1980
Designed to provide information for teachers wanting to use adventure activities with students and to help teachers in developing programs with clear objectives, solid logistic support, and safe policies and procedures, this teaching guide focuses on the goal of having a permanent impact on the self-concepts, behaviors, and attitudes of troubled…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Sanford, W. Lee – 1973
The preliminary work on three main projects is reported on, covering the period between March and June, 1973. The projects are: (1) development of an institutional behavioral management regimen for incarcerated male youths between the ages of 15 and 18 at the Alabama Industrial School at Mount Meigs, Alabama; (2) development of a community-based…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Correctional Education
Childs, Sally A. – 1980
People are steadily being deprived of decision making opportunities. However, the freedom and sense of adventure to be found in the outdoors can help renew feelings of self-direction in our lives. Many theories about the nature of self have been evolved since Aristotle's time. Social benefits, self conceptualization and self assessment may all…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Colorado Outward Bound School, Denver. – 1969
Urban Bound was begun in 1967 as an experimental two-phase program to help delinquent boys develop self-confidence and channel their energies appropriately. Phase one, a 21-day mountain program, was designed to build youth-group and youth-instructor relationships, develop self-confidence, provide an acceptable male image, promote communication,…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Delinquency, Delinquent Behavior
Lougheed, Jacqueline, Ed.; And Others – 1982
The accomplishments and impact of 10 Youth Advocacy Teacher Corps projects in 1978-79 are highlighted in this publication. Section 1 presents an overview of the Teacher Corps from 1965 to 1982 and reviews the development, since 1976, of the 10 Youth Advocacy Projects (YAP). The objectives of the projects (to promote effective educational responses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Child Advocacy
MCKEE, JOHN M.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE VOCATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL-DEMONSTRATION PROJECT AT DRAPER CORRECTIONAL CENTER, AN EXPERIMENT TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM THROUGH VOCATIONAL TRAINING, IN ITS FIRST 21 MONTHS TRAINED 173 YOUTHS IN SEVEN TRADES AND PLACED 150 GRADUATES IN JOBS. DETAILS OF SELECTION, COUNSELING, TRAINING, PLACEMENT, AND FOLLOW-UP OF INMATES THE USE OF INDIVIDUALIZED…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Community Support
Racine Unified School District 1, WI. – 1970
This report describes a teacher evaluation instrument for identifying educationally disadvantaged children. Also described are proposed and existing projects for fiscal year 1970, among which is an after school study center which will provide reinforcement for children retarded in reading and arithmetic skills. Other projects include a home…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Behavior Change, Compensatory Education, Delinquent Rehabilitation
