Peer volunteers have been found to be effective in delivering psychosocial interventions when they come from the same culture and share similar experiences as participants. We examined the clinical utility (feasibility and preliminary effectiveness) of a community-based, manualized, peer-delivered group counselling program to address the need for…

The parents/caretakers of a student who was recently not accepted into the gifted program are often not provided counseling support to reconceptualize their child's strengths and needs. Because the child is not labeled gifted, the parents' new attitudes toward the child, themselves and the education system may negatively impact the choices they…

Parent counseling is an effective remedial method, whether carried out for individual pairs of parents or for groups of parents, within certain limits. (AN)

Social work students conclude from an experience that parents can consider alternative means of disciplining children when they participate in a parent group that is comfortable and when attendance is promoted by provision of tangible services. Parents achieved increased sense of self-worth and learned appropriate ways of expressing anger. (Author)

This monograph reports upon data collected and analyzed in connection with a research project testing the feasibility of group counseling with parents. The group counseling was a part of the school guidance services. Data were collected in six school districts and based upon the experiences of 38 counselors and 53 parent counseling groups. An…

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 indicate that both types of counseling had a beneficial effect relative to the untreated controls but that the behavioral method resulted in a significantly greater magnitude of improvement. The behavioral technique was the treatment of choice for counseling parents of the retarded. (Author)

Parents on welfare as well as middle class parents took part in a training project designed to help them modify problem behaviors in their children. The guidelines developed in this project for group training and for the evaluation of outcome can be applied in various types of agencies. (Author)

Describes a program of parent counseling to help parents deal more effectively with some of the problems encountered in raising a family. (Author)

Designed to help school speech and language clinicians who work with parents of handicapped children, the article provides suggestions on group leadership strategies. (CL)

This monograph provides answers to various questions concerning the role of consultant for the counselor. The author argues strongly for a systematic, carefully planned approach, and provides a step-by-step description of the consultation process. Taped interviews are included to give a more vivid picture of the process at work. Discussed also are…

Allowing immediate alleviation of abuse when only one adult family member is in contact with the assisting agency, this model provides for restructuring the parenting style to increase the probabilities of permanent change. (Author)

The author discusses in detail the case of a fifth grade student with behavior problems. Transactional analysis, group counseling, and counseling of parents as well as teachers were successful in effectively dealing with the problems at hand. (SE)