A description of the manner in which legal processes affect school psychologists is presented. Legal terms are defined and examples provided of how laws and court decisions regulate privileged communications and access to psychological records. (Author)

Presents a set of training experiences to develop school-based consultation skills in preservice school psychologists and discusses problems in implementing this model of service. Also discussed are methods for mobilizing teachers to plan more precisely to meet the needs of individual pupils in the classroom. (Author)

Reports results of an evaluation of a program for improving skills of public school special services directors in managing conflict between parents of handicapped children and multidisciplinary teams. Describes the program methodology and assessment methods. Results indicated that increases in conflict management skills occurred for all directors…

In this article several functions for the school psychologist were proposed, including assistance in the selection of students for vocational programs designed for the handicapped and disadvantaged, teacher consultation, and consultation in the development of career programs. (Author)

This paper discusses the need for, and development of, a program of psychoeducational therapy within a school system. Reasons are delineated that make this a responsibility model of school psychology practice. The therapy program is part of a larger supporting thrust in intervention, features of which are briefly referred to. (Author)

Principals indicated that the school psychologist was most helpful when providing the traditional services of psychological testing, personality and emotional assessment, consultation, and screening. Changes desired were more time and an increase in counseling, preventive mental health, and inservice training. (Author)

It is argued that both traditional school psychologists and university-affiliated psychologists are restricted from influencing change processes in schools. An alternative approach to psychoeducational change is developed whose fundamental feature involves the engagement of internally responsible socioeducational specialists by schools. (Author)

The major defect of a jurisdictional relationship for school psychology with Divisions of Special Education is that the major portion of professional time is spent on the evaluation and placement of exceptional children rather than on wider problems affecting the total school. A possible solution is offered. (Author/CG)

Contemporary standards of professional practice and recent educational compliance legislation emphasize the delivery of appropriate school psychological services geared to a range of school-age children with special needs. These guidelines are set forth so that school psychologists might consider them and adapt them to local circumstances. (Author)

This paper examines some of the possible negative side effects of behavioral consultation and suggests that teacher resistance to behavioral methodology may be following basic learning principles that suggest that behaviors which lead to punishing conswquences often are terminated or avoided. Most of the negative consequences identified in this…

This study reports three-year, service-utilization patterns of the Primary Mental Health Project (PMHP)--an innovative school mental health program that uses nonprofessional child-aides as help-agents with maladapting primary graders. The PMHP model delivers, with relatively small cost increments, approximately 10 times more service than…