Recounts contributions of women in school psychology from Thayer Conference to present. Examines contributions in terms of four periods in development of school psychology: formative years, struggle for recognition as professional specialty, collaboration with other organizations, and present ambiguity. Notes that historically school psychology…

Claims Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals can provide rich and varied work experiences for psychologists. These settings have eased the way for counseling psychologists into behavioral medicine, neuropsychology, and health psychology, as well as maintaining role of vocational assessment. Notes VA psychology positions are geared toward…

Examined mentoring experiences of ethnic minority clinical, counseling, and school psychologists. Administered Mentor Experience Questionnaire to 101 ethnic minority psychologists. Ethnic minority psychologists were found to be prolific mentors of both ethnic minority and European American proteges. Mentoring benefits were not related to ethnic…

Reviews professional life of Jack Bardon, psychologist and former editor of "Journal of School Psychology," who died in November of 1993. Traces Bardon's educational and professional careers, noting his influence in establishing the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers in 1974. (NB)

Reviews professional career of Jack Bardon, psychologist and former editor of "Journal of School Psychology," who died in November 1993. Focuses on years from 1976, when Bardon joined University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G), until 1991, when he retired. Describes Bardon's affiliation with UNC-G as expansion of his efforts to apply…

Examines school psychologists' perceptions of conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) as a method of service delivery. Reports findings from a national survey regarding the acceptability of CBC. Participants rated CBC as clearly acceptable. Presents specific consultant variables, perceived barriers, and differential acceptability of CBC with other…

Hans Eysenck, who died in September 1997, was one of the most well-known psychologists in the world. A believer that intelligence is genetically controlled, Eysenck recognized the need for scientific investigation in the study of intelligence and creativity. He was characterized by extraordinary creativity and commitment to his scientific message.…

This article provides an overview of the need for logistic regression in the social sciences, a description of the basic model, and a clear description of how to interpret the results of a logistic regression analysis using SPSS. (Author/MKA)

The medieval period -- roughly the 1,000 years from the classical Greco-Roman age to the Renaissance and modern era -- has long been neglected in the history of psychology. Various reasons have been offered for why this period is treated so lightly, for example, that it was a Dark Age, or that it was dominated by anti-intellectual Christian…

Discourse comprehension theories frequently assume that discourse comprehension involves a complete analysis of lexical, syntactic, semantic, and discourse levels of processing. However, discourse psychologists have documented some conditions when a partial processing and underspecification of the resulting representations occurs. The articles in…

The 2004 Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology was awarded to Edwin A. Fleishman, for his significant contributions to the science and applications of psychology, which he has sustained over his remarkable career. He is cited for his research, which has had a profound influence on our understanding of human…

Comments on the article by Driver-Linn (see record 2003-05602-002), which presented an account of why psychologists have almost continuously invoked Kuhn since the 1970s to justify a wide array of the discipline's historical developments and epistemological proclivities. The current author suggests that perhaps the more pressing questions,…

Responds to comments made by numerous authors (see records 2004-14303-014, 2004-14303-015, and 2004-14303-016) on the current author's original article (see record 2003-05602-002), which presented an account of why psychologists have almost continuously invoked Kuhn since the 1970s to justify a wide array of the discipline's historical…

This rejoinder responds to the four reactions in the May 2005 issue of "The Counseling Psychologist." Areas of possible confusion are clarified, and relevant examples are highlighted. Of particular interest are examples of the nomological network, which offers an excellent tool for counseling psychologists and others in related…

School psychologists commonly conduct interventions for individual students and evaluate their success through single-case research designs, most of which include a baseline observation period. However, concluding intervention effectiveness from a single-case design is problematic when pronounced baseline trend is evident. With positive baseline…