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A Learning Theory Approach to Group Counseling with Elementary School Children
Hinds, William C.; Roehlke, Helen J.
J Counseling Psychol, 17, 1, 49-55, 70 Jan
Counseling involved the systematic use of positive reinforcement to shape each child's behavior toward adaptive responses and negative reinforcement to extinguish interfering responses. Results indicated significant changes in adaptive and interfering behaviors occurred within the counseling situation. Adaptive behaviors increased and interfering behaviors decreased. Transfer effect from behaviors in counseling to classroom behaviors occurred. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling, Elementary School Students, Group Counseling, Learning Theories
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