This model for facilitating the development of prehelping skills is a viable model of service delivery. If prehelping skills of attending, observing, and listening are not taught systematically, the development of skills involved in responding, integrative understanding and facilitating action become increasingly difficult. (Author)

Areas of social behavior are reviewed in terms of the increasing emphasis on mainstreaming and normalization for children with special needs and the resulting concerns of psychologists and educators with the social interaction difficulties of learning disabled children. These areas of social behavior that contribute to a child's peer interactions…

A new short-term (14-16 sessions) group therapy approach for children, Relationship Group Therapy (RGT), is described. The major group therapy approaches are critiqued and the integration of certain assumptions from each approach are discussed. Stages of RGT therapy and the specific interventions required during various stages of therapy are…