Social workers have an important role in the field of mental health, and social work programs have a responsibility to prepare students for practice in the field. This scoping review mapped and synthesized the literature on mental health, addictions, and suicide in social work education and training. We found 51 articles that examined social work…

Wellbeing is an emerging priority that poses a "wicked" problem. Current directives from policy makers are that schools address student wellbeing. However, the lack of a clear definition, simple solution or process for ensuring wellbeing creates a difficult task for schools. This article seeks to add to the current understanding of…

This literature review provides a review of policies, programs, and practices that have the potential to help students sustain the positive effects of preschool as they progress from kindergarten through grade 3 (K-3). The U.S. Department of Education's Policy and Program Studies Service commissioned this systematic literature review, which…

This study was conducted to focus attention on the issues involved in the preparation of school leaders and to provide an enhanced profile of the perceptions of faculty members involved in principal preparation. Results were used to provide information on the current status of principal preparation programs, suggestions about additional areas…

Federal, State and school-based professional development has become a multi-million dollar educational enterprise in Australia. Yet there are no published models for the making of systems-level professional development policy. Reviewing the literature on the characteristics of effective professional development programs, this paper proposes a…

This essay offers an analysis of PowerPoint apart from the histrionics of the "'Tis and 'Taint" arguments about its value, and proposes a program of research to move forward our understanding of PowerPoint as an inscriptional system. To that end, the study begins with a discussion of PowerPoint as an inscriptional system that employs both…

The tactics adopted by the Task Force on Evidence-Based Interventions in School Psychology have advantages in terms of literature coverage and providing data on multiple dimensions. Two suggestions to improve Task Force efforts are offered in terms of the specification of key outcomes and the use of effect sizes to gauge the impact and value of…

Praises the "Procedural and Coding Manual for Review of Evidence-Based Interventions" for its initial conceptualization and is then questioned with respect to its specific operational features and ultimate purposes. An illustration of the study-coding process is examined in the company of critical concerns that must be addressed before…

Presents a reaction to major contribution articles from this issue of "The Counseling Psychologist" (2000, [this issue]). Highlights important concepts that call for the field of counseling psychology to go "back to basics," including identity issues; the scope of prevention; prevention evaluation research; preventive…

Presents guidelines for the evaluation of parent training programs. Guidelines emphasize that components of evaluation should occur before, during, and after implementation of any training program. Recommends that the content of programs and the training methods employed should be based on sound theoretical principles and on evidence of…

Presents the conceptual, philosophical, and methodological basis for the "Procedural and Coding Manual for Review of Evidence-Based Interventions." Discusses key conceptual issues and areas of potential controversy surrounding the manual and the research framework for coding evidence-based interventions (EBIs). Presents methodological…

Examines the consequences of the application of different research methods in the field of experiential education. Discusses the meaning of "science"; aims of science, research, and evaluation; systematic, empirical, technological, or emancipatory power of a theory; importance of nomothetic and idiographic rules; researcher-subject…

A review of eight studies that focus on physical education curriculums and programs illustrated a variety of research approaches in the areas of curriculum development, collaborative program development, program description, development process description, and program evaluation. (IAH)

The present study uses an exemplar of contextual adolescent behavior theory, Jessor and Jessor's (1977) Problem Behavior Therapy (PBT), to review the current state of drug use prevention strategies. An overview of PBT theory and research are provided, and health communication programs, both academic and professional, are evaluated accordingly. It…

Prepares the way for an institutional analysis of strategic interventions for collaboration, drawing on recent research by Crowson, Boyd, and other organizational theorists. Using a framework of institutional propositions, analyzes strategic efforts to promote collaborative efforts to enhance students' life chances in a Canadian high school, as…