Oregon daily emerald., January 13, 1969, Page Eight, Image 8

Benefits problem kids
Clinic to improve
parent-child ties
A program training parents to respond in new ways to their
problem children is currently underway at the University psy
chology clinic.
Stephen Johnson, a new member of the psychology staff, is at
tempting to help parents change their habitual way of reacting
to their children’s behavior, as well as to learn the theory behind
the recommended changes.
At the University, he is concerned with helping families with
problem children age three to nine. Problems may include over
activity, destructiveness, demanding and manipulative behavior,
temper tantrums, bed-wetting, toilet training, and fearfulness sur
rounding such activities as separating from the parents, going to
bed, or attending school.
In collaboration with Marvin Greenbaum, an adjunct associate
professor and clinical psychologist from Portland, Johnson directs
a team of ten graduate students in this program. The major
emphasis involves teaching parents to be their own “therapists,”
using techniques of behavior modification.
The parents, Johnson points out, are usually with the child for
longer periods than any other person, and are a central source of
what the child learns, and how he learns it.
If meaningful change in the parental component can be brought
about, Johnson says, “the behavior of the child will usually change
as a matter of course.”
While this program involves talking with parents about their
children’s problems, Johnson and his staff rely mainly on direct
behavioral observations in the home, and interactions between
parents and children.
The therapy begins with an interview with the parents and two
observation sessions. This is followed by several additional ses
sions, at which Johnson points out the immediate goals to the
parents and supplies them with programmed reading materials. In
the typical case, improvement comes suddenly after a period of
slow progress and change in parental behavior.
In addition to the psychologists’ immediate goal of helping fami
lies with problem children, the treatment program has the long
range purpose of developing standard techniques for treating
child behavior problems.
University receives
electrical equipment
The University has been given
electronics equipment valued at
approximately $6,000 for use in
a physics teaching laboratory,
according to Russell Donnelly,
chairman of the department.
The gift is from the Hewlett
Packard Company and is part
of the company’s corporate giv
ing program to support the
teaching of electronics.
Included in the gift are eight
instruments for scientific meas
urements in solid state and nu
clear physics.
Richard Higgens, assistant pro
fessor of physics, whose under
graduate electronics teaching
laboratory course will be using
the equipment, points out that
the gift fulfills an urgently felt
need to expose students to in
struments of the high quality ac
tually used in scientific measure
ments.
The University has also re
ceived two grants totaling $266,
772 to provide for operation
costs during the current academ
ic year of the Special Educa
tion Instructional Materials
Center.
The grants were announced by
the Office of Education of the
U.S. Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare, according
to Wayne Lance, associate pro
fessor of education, who directs
the center.
The center is in its third year
of operation on the campus and
serves the unique function for
the Northwest of providing in
structional materials, service
and consultation for handicap
ped children and youth.
Overseas research projects
open to graduate students
The University’s Institute of
International Studies and Over
seas Administration will be ac
cepting applications through
the end of this month for five
overseas research training proj
ects in the summer of 1969 for
selected graduate students.
This will be the seventh
year of the overseas research
training program financed pri
marily by grants to the Univer
sity from the Carnegie Corpora
tion of New York and the Ford
Foundation.
John Gange, institute director,
said each 12 week project will
have a faculty director and at
least four students.
The five projects to be sup
ported by the institute are:
• A sociological study of
Shinto religious institutions in
Japan with Alfred Bloom, asso
ciate professor of religion.
Campus
Happenings
Future
THE DISTINGUISHED Visit
ing Lecturers program will fea
ture Professor John Hicks, Jan.
21 to 23. A professor at the
University of Birmingham, Hick
will speak on “Religious Lan
guage — The Central Issue,”
“Faith and the Modes of Ex
perience,” and “Faith and Ra
tionality.” The program is spon
sored by the department of re
ligious studies.
A CIVIC Music Association
concert will feature Mary Cos
ta, soprano, tomorrow night at
8 in McArthur Court.
FILM LECTURER and pho
toghapher Mildred Capron will
present a documentary film of
Portugal Tuesday, Jan. 14. The
program is part of the World
Around Us series and will be
shown at 8 p.m. in 150 Sc.
Mostly General
THIS WEEK is Peace Corps
week at the University. There
will be an information table on
the EMU terrace staffed by for
mer Peace Corps Volunteers. A
movie on Nigeria will be shown
and language aptitude tests will
be given during the week.
THE DEADLINE for applica
tions for scholarships to the Uni
versity’s Music School is Jan. 15.
Auditions for scholarship will be
held in Eugene and in Pendle
ton this year.
• Urbanization and indus
trialization in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, with Richard Gale,
assistant professor of sociology.
• The impact of external as
sistance on Indian education,
Charles Schleicher, professor of
political science.
• The exchange process in
food distribution and household
consumption in Monterrey, Mex.,
John Wish., associate professor
of marketing.
• Political development and
changing national identity in
Yugoslav society, cxeorge Naum
ovich, associate professor of po
litical science.
Graduate students interested
in the projects must be U.S.
citizens planning to return to
the University for the fall term
of the 1969-70 academic year.
Fellowships include funds for
travel and a cost-of-living stip
end for the session.
Further information may be
obtained by contacting John
Gange or Gene Martin at the
institute.
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