The authors describe a model for integrating multimodal assessments and intervention to meet the complex problems of multiply disabled children. An outline and guide for transdisciplinary team management is presented and discussed. (Author/CL)

Conners Teacher Rating Scale was completed as part of a psychological evaluation of 138 children who were subsequently placed into one of four special education classrooms. Questionnaires were subjected to principle component analysis with varimax rotation, and comparisons were made between the factor structure and Conners's (1969, 1973) original…

Examines five structured interview formats for assessing psychopathology in children. Presents information illustrating specific characteristics of each interview. Includes reliability and validity data, and draws implications for use of interviews in school settings. Offers suggestions for the development of structured formats and for avenues of…

Examined the differential effects of minority status in Blacks (N=94) on a facial recognition test and a naming test. Results showed that performance on the facial recognition test was relatively free of racial bias, but this was not the case for visual naming. (LLL)

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Adolescent male delinquents were administered the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to examine the relationship between behavioral indices of aggression and hostility. The results of this investigation supported the hypothesis that an inverse relationship exists between hostility on the TAT and ratings of aggressive behavior in adolescent males.…

The House-Tree-Person test is based on the premise that unconscious aspects of the personality are exposed through the person's drawings of familiar items. Children who have experienced sexual abuse are often hesitant to respond to direct questioning about this experience. Researchers have studied the H-T-P to determine if these children produce…

Discusses Stravinsky's Poetics, a book that adds an aesthetic theory to the revolutionary composer's legacy of masterworks, thus fusing theory with practice. (Author/RK)

The data shows that productivity in terms of word frequency or story length in children is considerably less than that typically encountered in most adult populations. (Author)

Explained for the parents of handicapped children are the purposes and rationale of personality tests as part of a battery of psychological tests involved in comprehensive psychological evaluation. (KW)

Of an original 79 BVMGT scoring systems, 62 were capable of significantly differentiating between the performance of emotionally handicapped and neurologically handicapped subjects compared with a random sample of Children grouped by age. The 62 items can be employed by psychologists for an objective appraisal of performance of the BVMGT. (Author)

The school psychologist should attempt to influence the course of study pursued by the students under his care and should make every effort to follow up all cases under his supervision to determine whether his recommendations have produced positive results. (CK)

The instrument yielded highly significant discriminations between clients with personal adjustment and vocational educational problems. It was concluded that the Psychological Screening Inventory could give useful diagnostic information to counselors. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine if four groups of engineering students differing in academic success and persistence could be discriminated on the basis of personality characteristics. Two personality dimensions discriminated: one dimension was described in terms of other-directed characteristics; the other in terms of self-directed…