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Author Savicki, Victor.

Title Working with troubled children / Victor Savicki and Rosemary Brown ; ill. by Mark Gostnell.

Publication Info. New York : Human Sciences Press, [1981]
©1981

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.74 S267W    Check Shelf
Description 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Effects of training -- I. Observation and levels of helper functioning -- Personality -- Values and beliefs -- Relationship dimensions -- Observation: behavioral and inferential -- II. Communication for helping relationships -- Attending -- Open invitations to talk -- Minimal encouragements to talk -- Paraphrasing and summary of content -- Reflection and summary of feeling -- Cue congruence -- Use of language -- Probing -- Self-disclosure -- Confrontation -- III. The basics -- Basic care -- Information-sharing -- IV. Behavior management -- Setting expectations and contracting -- Increasing behavior -- Decreasing behavior: punishment and contingent negative consequences -- Decreasing behavior: extinction and reinforcing alternatives -- Getting behavior started -- Transfer and maintenance of behavior change -- V. Treatment frameworks -- Problem solving and conflict resolution -- Transitions -- Physical restraint and the tantrum -- VI. Treatment contexts -- The group -- Play -- Use of the environment.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 391-394.
Subject Helping behavior.
Helping behavior -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Problem children -- United States.
Local Subject Children with behavior problems -- United States.
Added Author Brown, Rosemary, 1947-
ISBN 0877050872
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