This paper reviews the treatment acceptability literature starting with Kazdin's (1977) and
Wolfs (1978) earlier discussion of social validity. Treatment acceptability is defined, and the …

This guidebook has been developed as a skill-training package to teach psychologists,
counselors, social workers, and other applied mental-health professionals a model for the …

This study investigated intervention strategies that general educators use and believe are
reasonable for implementation when dealing with children with mild learning and behavior …

Two studies documented methods used by elementary school teachers to manage
classroom behavior. Study 1, using a self-report format, examined the proportion of teachers …

This paper reviews various social psychological constructs that have been discussed
previously in isolated articles in order to offer a theoretical framework within which to view …

The present study compared abusive, potentially abusive, and control group parents'
perceptions of commonly used discipline procedures. The clinical samples were obtained …

As behavioral techniques become increasingly scrutinized and regulated, the extent to
which a practitioner can justify treatment selection becomes more important. It is no longer …

A primary criticism of studies on acceptability of interventions has been their analogue
approach to experimentation. In the present, two-study investigation, acceptability of …

Teachers' ratings of the acceptability of a classroom time-out procedure were assessed as a
function of problem severity (mild vs. severe), different interventionists (teacher vs. school …

Twenty older adults provided acceptability ratings for two interventions for the treatment of
depression-behavior therapy and medication. At Time 1 assessment, subjects received infor …