Article presented ten teacher-guided approaches that can be utilized in open school learning approaches. (RK)

Suicidality ratings for 90 patients in a voluntary psychiatric hospital ward are correlated with five possible indices of depression: self-ratings of depression, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Depression scale scores, depressive diagnosis, and alcohol and drug use. Both depression and suicidality emerges in the factor structure as…

Reconstructed is the goal directed dialogue of eight 9-to 11-year-old children with adjustment problems and five re-education team members in a special school to show that both special teachers and parents must not only listen but endeavor to hear what children say during problem solving. (MC)

Presented are four papers on the Positive Alternatives to Student Suspensions (PASS) Program, a project designed to provide a sequence of intervention strategies intended to prevent and/or minimize the frequency of nonproductive social behavioral acts of secondary school students in participating schools. In the first paper by R. Bailey and J.…

Described is a motivational group counseling program involving adolescent high-school students (14 to 16 years old) who were referred because of severe learning problems, including behavior problems and low self-esteem and motivation. Included are individual case studies and a group analysis. (IM)

The paper reviews placement, treatment, supplementary services, and exit and follow-through procedures of a program for mainstreaming secondary students with mild to moderate behavior disorders. (CL)

A program under which boys in a residential treatment home paid weekend visits to foster homes proved a successful method of testing the boys' readiness to leave the institution and return to the community. (Author/CS)

The present study was directed toward evaluating the nature and degree of differences between three measures of clinical status often used as primary indicators of psychological disorder. Results confirmed the traditional inverse relationship between social class and psychological disorder but demonstrated that it was conditional in nature.…

The book contains five papers presented at a 1979 topical conference on the definition of emotional disturbance and behavioral disorders in educational settings. The first paper, by F. Wood, is titled "Defining Disturbing, Disordered, and Disturbed Behavior." Topics covered include ambivalence about defining deviant behavior by special educators,…

This is a guide for teachers for coping with educational and behavior problems involving Indochinese students in American schools. Problems that might be expected and factors that contribute to problems are outlined, including: (1) language difficulty; (2) imitation behavior by Indochinese students; (3) effects of camp life; (4) intragroup…

The life space interview, in which a teacher (or other important member of the child's world) interacts with a student in terms of the student's direct life experience in order to set boundaries and appropriate actions, is an effective technique for structured interaction with adolescents with severe behavior disorders. In order to facilitate the…

To date, efforts to educate the disadvantaged child have failed because most teachers and administrators have been unable to transcend the gulf between his culture and their own. Two concepts, however, are basic to any suggestions about educating the disadvantaged. First, it is possible to educate children "by providing a model for emulation and…

The prevailing paradigm for understanding the causes and correction of learning and related behavior problems is seen as over-emphasizing person variables. It is suggested that an interactional model would be more in keeping with contemporary psychological theorizing and available data. Implications of understanding causal determinants in…

The author discusses the ego development of the troubled youngster in the classroom and how teachers can use this knowledge to help him reduce his self defeating and negative attitudes to learning and relating. (LS)

This paper describes a study which had a twofold purpose. The first was to determine which methods of influence were used by teachers to control pupils who exhibited various types of disruptive misbehavior. The second purpose of this study was to determine why teachers chose those specific methods of control. Influence was considered from the…