Discusses activities for prevention, growth, or remedial groups that can be useful in educational or community settings. Presents rationale for using structured group work to focus on family of origin. Descriptions of activities include goals, scripts for psychoeducational content for the leader, questions that promote relating family-origin…

Reports on survey sent to school psychologist in one Southwestern state about their assessment and intervention practices with second-language learners. Analysis of returned surveys revealed that a number of school psychologists are using alternative assessment techniques, such as curriculum-based measurement, dynamic assessment, and portfolio…

Explores the impact and consumer satisfaction associated with participation in a parent education program, Kids in Divorce and Separation (K.I.D.S.), that specifically focuses on divorce and parental conflict. Results indicate that participation in the program has positive effects on parents' self-reported knowledge and behavior with regard to…

Analyzes a learning disabilities (LD) questionnaire administered to 150 adults including college and university students, and adults referred to a psychoeducational clinic for assessment or treatment related to LD. Finds that the LD screening test had internal consistency and good test-retest reliability, as well as criterion validity. Finds…

Neurologist and middle school teacher Judy Willis connects what you do in the classroom to what happens in the brain when students learn how to read, including: (1) Why a classroom has to be safe and supportive in order to overcome barriers to reading fluency; (2) How to jumpstart students who are not well prepared for reading with activities that…

Research on the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy, and in particular, exposure with response prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), has only been systematically evaluated in children and adolescents ages 7-17. These treatments do not address the unique characteristics of young children with OCD. This paper discusses…

Objective/Method: The Conner's Continuous Performance Test (CPT) was administered to four groups of adult college students who self-referred for comprehensive psychoeducational evaluation and received either no diagnosis (n = 30) or a diagnosis of ADHD (n = 26), a psychiatric disorder (n = 17), or various cognitive deficits (n = 22). Results: The…

Neuroscience has provided fascinating glimpses into the brain's development and function. Despite remarkable progress, brain research has not yet been successfully brought to bear in many fields of educational psychology. In this article, work on literacy serves as a test case for an examination of potential future bridges linking mind, brain, and…

The conference examined the role of the applied psychologist. The recommendations of this conference are new and powerful and are likely to reverberate throughout the helping professions. The authors discuss major conference recommendations and their implications for professional counseling practice. (Author)

Reviews some of the major impediments to research in counseling and counselor education and then presents a model for research particularly designed to assess developmental change in pupils. (Author)

To determine the status of emotionally handicapped children who had attended a psychoeducational intensive day treatment facility and to explore procedures for long term assessment, a followup telephone interview was undertaken with 37 parents or guardians of the elementary program clients. It was found that the children are for the most part…

Common approaches to ordering the curriculum content of a scholastic discipline include a hierarchical structuring of the discipline's major concepts and a view of inquiry as learners solving problems. Other approaches include logical prerequisite, concept inclusion, generalization, concept interrelationship, chronology, and subject matter.…

The paper relates the development of childhood behavior problems to a developmental theory of the acquisition of psycho-social skills in children. The influence of Eric Erikson (1950) on the ideas expressed is acknowledged. It is stated that each of the major types of behavior problems (withdrawal, impulsivity, dependence) results from a major…

Describes aggression replacement training (ART), a multimodal, psychoeducational intervention for assaultive, hostile adolescents and children who are either institutionalized or pose severe, disruptive behaviors in communities. Presents the research evaluating ART efficacy, planned efforts in program development, and ART's relevance for…

This study developed a classification model for matching appropriate psychoeducational interventions with specific groups of adolescent sexual offenders. Participants were male juvenile sex offenders incarcerated as wards in the Continuum of Care Sex Offender Treatment Program of the California Department of Corrections. The treatment provided…