Children of divorce encounter many changes in their lives. Treatment through the HELPING acronym of multimodal counseling ensures attention to each of these areas. This article presents a series of eight sessions for HELPING children of divorce. (Author)

Described the actual intake procedure used for a group of third graders. Each child was taught relaxation exercises and responded to his/her experience. (BEF)

To determine whether classroom meetings, as a form of group counseling, could be used to improve the behaviors and self-concepts of fourth-grade students, 45 experimental group students and 45 control group students participated in 20 weeks of meetings. Results indicated improvements in behavior but not in self-concept. (BL)

Focusing on practical procedures that counselors have found effective and describing the objectives and who, when, where and how of a technique, this column describes the use of Dear Abby" discussion groups to assist students in explaining personal problems in a classroom setting. (Author/CG)

Describes student activities which focus upon cooperation and communication skills and provide students with opportunity to practice these skills with classmates. Claims these activities are designed to promote the group process and the development of sufficient rapport so that students can readily engage in group discussion and problem solving.…

Examined effects of using Hammond's (1981) method of aiding children of divorce through group counseling. Findings from 39 children in grades 4, 5, and 6 revealed that the 8-week program was successful in favorably altering the children's self-concepts. (NB)

Presents interview with Walter Lifton in which Lifton is questioned about his contributions to counseling and, in particular, about some of his contributions to programs for children and young adolescents. Lifton describes some of his pioneering efforts in working with elementary-aged children and his work with groups and group counseling with…

This article focuses on the treatment necessary for parents guilty of child abuse in order to improve the home situation to enable a child to return to it and to grow safely within it. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that the groups of children who were engaged in play media counseling showed a greater positive change in social position than did those in the verbal group counseling sessions. When the scores of the counseled group were compared with the control group, a significant difference in favor of the counseled was…

The method and applications of Family Group Consultation and the Family Bond Inventory are discussed in this article. The Family Bond Inventory is a recent development that has led to the possibility of identifying interpersonal conflict within a family and can be used to measure change within the family during treatment. (JC)

The findings of this study with respect to on-task behavior and grade point average, provide support for the position that a counselor can serve effectively as a behavioral consultant to teachers. The classroom behavior management approach offered advantages over the client-centered group counseling behavior and grade point average. (Author)

Two brief articles discuss: (1) Three group counseling approaches; and (2) A comparison of empathy in master's degree and lay counselors. (CJ)