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The Summer Treatment ProgramâS Effect On Behaviorally Challenged Orthodox Jewish Children, Dovid Rudomin
The Summer Treatment ProgramâS Effect On Behaviorally Challenged Orthodox Jewish Children, Dovid Rudomin
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The Summer Treatment Program (STP) is an 8-week, research-based, behavior modification approach utilizing a unique point system that has been shown to improve the noncompliant behavior of children in a day camp setting. Due to religious reasons, the children of the Orthodox Jewish (OJ) community are unable to attend the original STP. Guided by behaviorism, the purpose of this research study was to assess whether a faith-based STP is effective in improving the noncompliant behavior of OJ behaviorally challenged children. In this study, the relationship between the completion of the STP and the behaviors of hyperactivity, aggression, conduct, anxiety, attention, …