Nonprofessional mental health workers in a program for early detection and prevention of school maladaptation in children were compared to similar controls on changes in attitude and clinical response style after 12 didactic training sessions and supervised field experience. Some combination of training, experience, and supervision increased aide…

A four-session behavior modification training program for training one volunteer nonprofessional is presented. Readings, discussion, audio-visual taping, and role playing were utilized to prepare the trainee, who then managed a field case at a private school for emotionally disturbed'' children. (Author)

Three appendixes, B, C, and D, to an article titled "A Process Analysis of Nonprofessional Intervention with Children," are manuals for the use of Process Activity Forms and for Referral Category Rating, including instructions and examples of both and Derivation of Aide Characteristic Factor Scores. (LH)

Process analysis research methodology was used to examine the interactions between 41 nonprofessional child-aides and 166 primary graders with school maladaptation in 11 urban and suburban schools. Sixth-five percent of the interaction time was spent in play activities, 15 percent each in conversation and tutoring. (Author)

This paper considers differential patterns of program utilization and the overall potential of the helping model for bringing needed services to otherwise unreached, maladapting school children. (Author)

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…