To find a method of providing effective services to promote successful school experiences for all children and to prevent mental health disturbances in children, this project demonstrated the operation and tested the influence of sustained child behavior consultation with school people to increase their probable positive impact. The report reviews…

Skills needed by the elementary school pupil personnel worker may be divided into the following areas: (1) counseling, (2) consultation, and (3) coordination. The counseling role can be of value not only to children, but also parents and teachers. Consultation is the process used to help teachers and administrators become better diagnosticians of…

This conference report includes the texts of speeches on the general subject of preparing the elementary specialist. Five purposes of the conference are designated: a) to review beliefs about children and their needs for movement, aesthetics, and rhythmical experiences; b) to develop insights concerning the significance and uniqueness of…

Describes need for eclectic approach to counseling rather than adherence to circumscribed traditional role. (CJ)

A study compared the informal theories about the child held by 10 preservice education students with those held by 8 educational leaders with experience in the elementary grades. During interviews, students and educators were asked to define "the child" in everyday terms. They were also asked to categorize and respond to 32 statements…

ACCORDING TO A SURVEY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, THE SERVICES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS (CDC'S) HAVE HAD AN IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN. ALMOST 13,000 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAD CDC'S IN 1962-63. OF THE PRINCIPALS IN SCHOOLS WITHOUT CDC'S, THREE-FOURTHS EXPRESSED NEED FOR SUCH SERVICES. CDC'S DESCRIBED AS HAVING A BACKGROUND IN…

Evidence suggests the value of a pupil services practitioner in a school, and indicates that although such practitioners were prepared informally and relatively briefly, their effects are the same as those who engage in full, formal preparation programs. (Author)

Strategies for promoting reflection in prospective early childhood teachers are summarized. Each strategy was field tested and documented in the course "The Development and Administration of Child Service Programs," which was team taught during the summers of 1994 and 1995 at The Pennsylvania State University. About 30 students enrolled…

A cost-free counseling model was developed to meet the changing needs of elementary school students in a small college city in California. A training program for graduate students was set up within the public school setting and was clinically supervised. Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor and Licensed Educational Psychologist internships were…