Recommendations are offered which barallel the three discussion sections of the article: professional practice issues, professional guild issues, and professional survival issues. Although presented in broad terms, these recommendations address either individuals, organizations or the field. (Author/GK)

Future directions in school psychology from the practitioner's viewpoint are discussed. The focus is on the review of some major events and variables that will continue to impact upon psychological services in the schools and the actions psychologists can take to control these variables. (Author/GK)

Studies the increasing interest among school psychologists in neuropsychology as it relates to children in the educational environment. Attempts to identify forces which have led to this increased interest and provide a conceptual framework for recognizing this specialty within the profession of school psychology. (Author)

School psychology consultants rated the primary consultee problem for each of their consultation cases. Findings indicate significantly more consultation cases resulted from consultee lack of knowledge, skills, and confidence than from consultee lack of objectivity. Findings question the practical utility of psychodynamically oriented Caplanian…

Presents data on women and minorities in the field of psychology in terms of representation, subfields, degree level, experience, licensure/certification, employment status, employment setting, income, and membership in graduate psychology faculty. Discusses continuing underrepresentation of minorities and pervasive subfield segregation and pay…

Attempts to identify the nature and origin of the new demands made on child guidance services since the late 1960s, looks at the responses of the services to those demands, discusses psychologists' changing perceptions of their roles, and offers some tentative indications of possible future lines of development. (Author/CM)

Commentaries are presented by Jack I. Bardon (on TM 504 397 and 398), Douglas T. Brown (on TM 504 396 and 398), and Irwin A. Hyman (on TM 504 396 and 397) regarding the professional roles and training needs of school psychologists. (GDC)

The emerging role of vocational school psychologists is explored, particularly with the expansion of adult and continuing education programs. Implications of federal funding, especially the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), for vocational school psychologists, are discussed. (MH)

Results of a study on the school psychologists' role indicated that principals endorsed their psychometric function while teachers were unsure of the most desirable functions of school psychologists. Implications of these findings, which support previous research, are discussed briefly. (MH)

The basic ingredients of test development and practice are validity and reliability, but the tested impact is equally important. The American Psychological Association Committee on Psychological Tests should be restructured to deal with testing problems, and more research should be done on the public impact of testing. (JAC)

Investigates relationship between diagnostic classifications and educational placement recommendations utilized by educational psychologists in the evaluation of psychoeducational reports evaluated for clinical consensus in five input areas: developmental history, school history, cognitive functioning, sensorimotor-perceptual functioning, and…

Junior high students were tested to supply normative data supporting the Bender Gestalt. Subject's performance was not significantly related to sex or occupation of the family bread winner. These variables do not have to be controlled for in norming visual motor tests at the junior high level. (Author)

Presents an overview of contradictory forces acting upon school psychology today, a commentary on economic and legislative impact upon the profession, and a discussion of issues such as definition of client, mainstreaming, the individual educational program, due process, and the least restrictive environment that may affect future professional…

The writings of Boyd R. McCandless and his colleagues concerned with socialization, sex role development, research methodology, early education, and the relationship of his work to school psychology and early education are discussed. There is much in a review of this person's life and work that is instructive. (Author)

An ecological view of psychological services to preschool children is described here as a proactive, seeking-out, mental health delivery system that concentrates its effort on prophylactic activities rather than the "diagnosis recommend" or "diagnosis psychotherapy" ritual. Activities for psychological services, training of staff, and competencies…