The study involving 65 school psychologists, 38 special education teachers, and 21 "naive" university students (those not in education or psychology related programs) examined the extent to which school personnel were able to differentiate learning disabled (LD) students from low achievers by examining students' patterns of scores on…

Endler, Ruchton, and Roediger's (1979) method of obtaining exact publication counts for individual psychologists in order to make ratings of psychology departments was evaluated. Using the 1975 "Social Science Citation Index" (SSCI) as a data base, Endler et al. ranked departments on total citation and total publication counts.…

The issue of certification is a crucial one for psychologists. The advantages of such certification might seem to be a sanctioned status in the community, a specific set of courses for students leading to a specific title, and possibly an edge in a highly competitive job market. But the sort of training implied by certification implies learning a…

A solution to the problem in the knowledge gap between educational institutions and the medical world is proposed: send a school psychologist to a medical setting to bridge the gap. The author contends that both school and medical facilities would benefit as psychologists could offer physicians and medical students training in the psychological…

THE FIVE MAJOR AREAS COVERED BY A SEMINAR ON PUPIL PERSONNEL SERVICES, SPONSORED BY THE GEORGIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IN JUNE, 1966, ARE SUMMARIZED. PAPERS WERE PRESENTED, AND A PANEL REACTED TO THE FOLLOWING--(1) THE PUPIL PERSONNEL CONCEPT, (2) THE COUNSELOR ON THE PUPIL PERSONNEL STAFF, (3) THE SOCIAL WORKER ON THE PUPIL PERSONNEL…

A PSYCHIATRIST, A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, AND A SOCIAL WORKER EACH MADE INDEPENDENT CASE STUDIES OF EACH OF 300 CHILDREN EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE SECOND AND FIFTH GRADES. TWO OBJECTIVES WE KEPT IN MIND--(1) MAKING AN ACCURATE PREDICTION OF THE CHILD'S ADJUSTMENT TO SCHOOL AND (2) TRYING TO DEVISE A USEFUL SET OF CRITERIA UPON WHICH CONSISTENT…

STATEMENTS MADE BY A THERAPY CLIENT WERE TYPED ON SMALL CARDS AND PRESENTED AS AN ARRAY TO 18 SUBJECTS. EACH SUBJECT CATEGORIZED THESE STATEMENTS TO REPRESENT CONCEPTS HE USED IN CONCEPTUALIZING THE CLIENT. ON COMPLETING THIS TASK, EACH SUBJECT DESCRIBED THE CLIENT USING A Q-SORT. DESCRIPTIVE ACCURACY WAS DEFINED CONSENSUALLY VIA FACTOR ANALYSIS…

This paper briefly discusses problems of the present legal system in dealing with child custody cases and proposes two alternative modes for deciding custody disputes. Section I presents problems involved in the present process of deciding legal custody. It is argued that the adversarial process is often unresponsive to the child's best interests.…

The Revised Standards for Providers of Psychological Services, developed by a committee of the American Psychological Association, have an important impact on industrial/organizational psychologists. Currently, four types of controls exist as assurances to the public that appropriate psychological services are being provided. They are: graduate…

This publication is one of a series on current research and resources compiled by the Counseling and Personnel Services Information Center. It is intended as a companion volume to an earlier publication (Pupil Personnel Services). The purpose of this publication is to make the user aware of (1) the variety of available information sources…

A referral system was developed to facilitate the work of a psychologist from a regional center in a rural area. Training in identifying behavioral characteristics of exceptional children was given to professionals and to lay persons, including parents. As a result, referrals increased 8%, with student, parent, and teacher referrals increasing and…

This paper presents three different aspects of research in industrial and organizational psychology. First, characteristics of major advances in science, and in the social and behavioral sciences are given, including: (1) team research is more common for major advances; and (2) young men under 35 are responsible for many major contributions.…

Observations on the position of the school psychologist attached to the central staff of any sizeable school system are grouped under three headings: (1) entree, (2) task and job rationale, and (3) professional identification. The organization point of entree into a system is determined by the administrative structure of the school system and by…

The author reports research documenting the tendency for actors to attribute their own behavior to external causes while observers attributed the same behaviors to the internal disposition of the actor. Psychologists, like other observers of behavior, may have a bias toward attributing an actor's behavior to internal causes, and their inferences…

Male students' (N=50) perceptions of counselors, counseling psychologists, and guidance counselors were compared by means of a semantic differential instrument. Counseling psychologists were perceived as being likely sources of help for emotional, family, interpersonal, and sexual problems. Counselors were perceived as more likely sources of help…