This volume of readings is a basic survey of issues and perspectives concerning the nature of teaching. Part one is composed of four articles containing perspectives on the need for educational theory. Two of the authors contend that educational theories emerge from education, while the other two authors are more positive in their conception of…

In this article, the author defines humanistic intervention and discusses the results of his experiences in humanizing his interventions. (Author)

Describes a workshop designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the latest findings from research on human consciousness. (Author)

Relates Feuerstein's theory of cognitive modifiability and mediated learning experience to Native American educational issues, including loss of cultural identity, and low academic performance, self-concept, and motivation. Suggests that sound cognitive instruction linked to Indian cultural heritage stimulates motivation and promotes the survival…

Discusses issues and suggestions relative to counseling clients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Several psychosocial issues are presented, and a psychoeducational model of treatment to meet the needs of AIDS clients is described. (Author)

Explores and advocates use of psychoeducational approaches to help rural mental health practitioners address counterproductive issues that inhibit effective therapeutic networking for schizophrenic clients. Details adapting psychoeducational programs for clients, families, and allied service providers in a rural setting. (NEC)

To improve the psychoeducational assessment of handicapped students, assessment process and procedure should be carefully matched to the decisions to be made. Clarification of those decisions can best be achieved through referral assessment and pre-referral interventions. (Author/DB)

Parents and teachers have found that evaluations, both those provided by public school systems and private clinicians and hospitals, vary greatly in their comprehensiveness, usefulness of information and specificity of recommendations. Therefore, parents must become informed consumers when selecting who will evaluate their children as well as what…

The author calls for a broader new psychoeducational evaluation which allows for more productive uses of the school psychologist's services. Special education, being in transition, is more clearly focusing on finding ways for exceptional children to function in regular school settings. (Author)

The Diagnosis Intervention Class Model, its implications for disadvantaged" school populations, and the results of implementing a variation of this model in an elementary school setting are presented and discussed. (Author)

The article is an account of the author's work in a remedial reading department with John, a preadolescent, passive aggressive student at the Rose School (Washington, DC) for emotionally disturbed children. The case provides an example of blending teaching skills with psychological insights. (Author/SB)

Discusses the role of the school psychologist in the administration and interpretation of comprehensive psychoeducational vocational evaluations designed to aid individualized education program committees in constructing vocational programs for handicapped students. (Editor/CT)

Cautions that biography about adults, written for children, should not be allowed to replace other forms of literature, such as fairy tales, that are psychologically healthier for children's emotional levels. Biography tends to prematurely impose highly complex rational descriptions of life upon unprepared minds. (RAA)

Proposes a psychoeducational model of intervention for use with drug abusers. Claims that the model may be particularly helpful during the early stages of intervention in reducing resistance to change since it addresses the eight thinking styles believed to shield the drug "lifestyle" from forces that would otherwise lead to change. (RJM)