Presents two-week unit on work designed to move from an overview of occupations to a more in-depth study of the meaning and value of work. Describes third grade unit which featured slides, songs, poetry, and creating a student factory. Notes that activities can be adapted for other grades. Includes highly personalized learning experiences and…

Details five career guidance activities designed to capture the interest of elementary school children. Attempts to make Holland's six personality types and occupational groups interesting and fun for children. Offers stimulus statements and questions for productive group discussion and interaction. Describes use of family members in homework…

Describes referrals for family therapy by school counselors. Discusses the referral process, nature of family therapy, pitfalls in the referral process, and guidelines for successful referrals. Concludes counselors can avoid many pitfalls by an appreciation of the interactional nature of the referral process. (ABL)

Examined feasibility of training young elementary school children in stress responses and coping techniques. Findings indicated children can learn to control heart rate, respiration rate, and skin temperature responses by participating in a program that includes instruction on proper breathing; modified, progressive muscle relaxation; visual…

Investigated fears of 121 third graders who completed a checklist of 25 items. Results showed girls were generally more fearful than boys. Loss of parents was the principal source of fear. Fears of natural phenomena (tornados and storms) and of animals resulted in the most consistency. (JAC)

Examined differential effects that two components of self-management (self-initiated feedback and externally initiated feedback) separately and in combination had on on-task arithmetic behavior of sixth-grade students (N=32). Results revealed significant difference in on-task behavior between control group and treatment group that experienced both…

Sees guided imagery as valuable counseling tool for school counselors. Presents and discusses five guidelines for using guided imagery in a school setting. Discusses guided imagery as an intervention and presents two brief case studies to illustrate its use. (NB)

Presents Gottfredson's theory of career development which incorporates psychological and nonpsychological influences, and discusses the practical implications of the theory for career education in the elementary school. (Author/BL)

Discusses the importance of career awareness activities for elementary school students and presents a bibliography of 146 books classified according to career categories and age level. Four strategies for using the bibliography are described. (JAC)

Outlines a test wiseness program for elementary school students and presents guidelines for its implementation. The program is designed to help children overcome test anxiety and develop study skills to improve performance on standardized tests. Topics include understanding directions and wise use of time. (JAC)

Discusses philosophy used to build student interest in various lesson topics taught to guidance groups. Presents three magic activities complete with lesson plans: How to Change Big Problems into Little Ones and How to Keep Little Problems from Getting Bigger; Teaching Friendship Skills and Becoming Aware of Your Feelings; and What Does Your…

Describes a group social skills counseling strategy for kindergarten children based on Lazarus's seven modalities: behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relationships, and drugs/biology. Concludes multimodal approach seems suited to needs of young child whose emerging awareness is vitally engaged in each of the seven…

Examines creative humor and appreciative humor. Suggests ways elementary school counselors can nurture humor, both creatively and appreciatively, as a necessary characteristic of the complete child. (ABB)

Examines the differences in interpersonal relationship orientation between students identified as stars and as isolates. (Author)