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The article focuses on teaching behavioral methods to parents. A didactic approach utilized with a group of parents is found to be an effective way to begin work with parents of hyperactive and aggressive children. Psychotherapy has traditionally focused on multiple facets of the human personality. In recent years, however, it has become acceptable to deal with limited problems and to offer the kind of treatment that was once denounced as symptomatic and more likely to increase problems than reduce them. Research in the social sciences, particularly in behavioristic psychology, has demonstrated that the behavior approach does not result in symptom substitution and that the disease model is not appropriately applied to personality functioning. Therefore it was decided by the social scientists to employ a didactic method and to use a programmed text, Living with children, which emphasizes social learning and reinforcement theory. The duration of the "course" was approximately ten weeks, depending on the needs of parents.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article "Open Letter to Konrad Lorenz" in the November 1966 issue.