The elementary school guidance specialist must be aware of his role if he is to implement needed change within the school. He needs more specification than is suggested by a loosely defined role, and less rigidity than is provided by an inflexible statement of role. (Author)

Results of the study suggest that guidance specialists, principals, and teachers see the need for more ideal guidance services with the teachers being most dissatisfied. (Author)

Results of this study tend to support the concept that an elementary school counselor makes a difference in a school's climate. (Author)

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)

Students at two inner city elementary schools who were consistently truant were divided into six groups according to the reasons they were absent. The school social worker describes techniques used to combat truancy in each category. (HMV)

Through their drawings children provide observable clues to their conflicts, symbolize their needs and stir pupil personnel workers to action on their behalf. In this article the authors present a projective testing technique entitled, Child At School Drawings, and explain how to use it. Presentation made at Convention of International Association…

Describes need for eclectic approach to counseling rather than adherence to circumscribed traditional role. (CJ)

Comprehensive Pupil Personnel Services Team (CPPS) implies that all members of the team--teachers, administrators, counselors, specialists, etc.--have important contributions to make to meet schools promise of working for development of total human beings. Pupil Personnel Services must be an integral part of total educational program. (Author)

This article is an exploration of the phenomenon of change as it relates to elementary school counselors, to their evolving role and complementary training needs. It is a report of a study designed to assess the present professional renewal needs of elementary school counselors in one state. (Author)

Do teachers lack knowledge of the counselor's role? Do teachers view themselves as having positive relationships with their counselors? The purpose of this study was to determine answers to these questions. (Author)

This study examined how the composition of a behavior support team affected use of assessment information in the design of behavior support plans. Specifically, we examined if typical teams designed behavior support plans that differed in (a) technical adequacy and/or (b) contextual fit when (1) teams did not include behavior specialists, (2)…

The author calls attention to broad areas of responsibility of the Pupil Personnel Worker in the Elementary School. Emphasis must be placed on performance within the learning environment where the pupil personnel worker can be concerned with the majority of pupils. (Author/BY)

The second of three articles on elementary school personnel services, this one discusses possible relationships between pupil personnel workers and other staff members which would improve learning climates, particularly for those who are classroom problems because they cannot learn under existing conditions. (CJ)

The overwhelming shortage of trained counselors, suggests an approach which makes more effective use of available personnel. A team approach, using a counselor, a guidance worker and paraprofessionals, is described which permits the counselor to do more counseling and consultation, and less guidance and administrative work. (CJ)

Elementary counselors can make many contributions to the child's development of a positive self-concept. Contributions cited in this booklet include: (1) direct counseling services to children; (2) consultation services for staff and parents; (3) coordination of school programs and community resources. The booklet also tries to communicate the…