The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, Public Law 94-142, represents the culmination of a "quiet revolution." The far-ranging provisions of P. L. 94-142 are causing many education personnel, including school counselors, to reevaluate their traditional roles in order to accommodate the needs of handicapped students.…

Describes a study that involved setting up an expanded counseling network with an emphasis on professional service provision, and combining this with the training and professional development of a network of part-time counselors. Ethical and practical issues are explored in detail, and encouragement is given to other institutions to use a similar…

Looks at the changes made by counselors and changes made in counseling over the past few decades and recommends changes in attitudes and roles essential to meet comtemporary conditions, based upon a belief that, before counselors can change roles, they must change their attitudes toward their job and themselves. (Author/BEF)

Advocates professional counselor training programs in group counseling, as workshops are inadequate to prepare school counselors. Once the counselor has developed the necessary skills to lead groups, group counseling must be an integral part of the school program. Commentary by Merle Ohlsen follows. (Author/BEF)

Provides the elementary school counselor with a knowledge base in the reading and reading disability areas. The discussion on reading highlights four major areas with which the elementary school counselor should be familiar: definition of reading, proliferation of terms, reading skills assessment, and reading disability. (Author)

Consultation services have been considered an essential and important role for school psychologists throughout the history of the field. Traditionally consultation has been cast as a problem-solving process, nevertheless, it can be thought of as a knowledge-linking process in which psychologists advance knowledge in schools to various mediators…

School psychologists have considerable measurement expertise when compared to physicians, social workers, and other professionals delivering psychological services to schools and children. However, psychologists are far from qualified to portray themselves as measurement experts. It is important to know psychologists' boundaries of measurement…

Summarizes findings of other articles in terms of progress made during last decade in area of counseling persons with disabilities, as well as problems remaining. Proposes several idealistic scenarios for counselors and other human development specialists to use as guidelines for future work with people who are disabled. (Author)

Powerful economic, social, and political forces are reshaping schools as well as the perceptions of legislators, government officials, school boards, administrators, teachers, businesses, and parents regarding the kinds of pupil services that are needed in schools. At the national level the trend toward shifting decision-making power away from the…

This paper explores ways in which school counselors can help young people with death-related concerns. It is often assumed that school counselors have the necessary skills for working with students who experience grief, but most graduate counseling curricula do not require courses in death education; thus, many counselors feel uncomfortable in…

Discusses a publication on the technical adequacy of tests used in simulated decison making. Suggests the use of poor diagnostic instruments can incorrectly influence a multidisciplinary team making student placement decisions. Authors respond to Wright's criticism. (JAC)

In the past, educators have been reluctant to deal openly with the issue of school violence. This paper examines feedback from workshops on bullying and refers to the results of a survey of school psychologists regarding school violence. It is argued that the causes of violence at school are multifaceted and interactive. Bullying is a world-wide…

As psychologists meet with educators to discuss the needs of various children, they bring different pedagogical backgrounds to the table. The body of psychological theory and science the psychologists have is essential, imperative, and indispensable to effective schooling. The diagnostic skills of psychologists are essential and not available to…

Conflict is part of human interaction. A review of some of the literature on the history, as well as on the educational and psychological impact of violence in South African schools, is provided here. It is suggested that intervention and prevention strategies to deal with the effect of violence include training to provide market-related skills to…

This paper presents a review of the available data on the extent of truancy and the factors associated with and contributory to truancy. It suggests that pupil personnel workers begin to adopt more strategies of the change agent and a more active examination of the total life space and relationships of students. (Author)