Past influences of the school psychologist in effecting understanding and acceptance of individual differences of children are examined in relationship to the contemporary need to relate this knowledge to appropriate educational planning for a culturally diverse school population. (Author)

The proposed contiguous model of applied experience woven with planned didactic sequences meets most of the professional training needs of school psychologists enrolled in the University of South Carolina Training Program. The student in the doctoral program will have acquired fundamental skills in four important areas of school psychology;…

A multitrait-multimethod matrix was used to ascertain the convergent and discriminant validity of the subtests of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. Correlations among scores earned by educable mentally retarded children on PIAT and WRAT subtests were similar to those reported for retarded adolescents by Sitlington (1970). (Author)

No significant difference was found between the perceptual-motor performance of the white advantaged and disadvantaged children. The disadvantaged black children performed significantly more poorly than either of the white groups. Perceptual-motor proficiency was also examined in relation to sex, intelligence, visual discrimination, motivation,…

This paper explores implications of several agency models and the functions of the school psychologist in these settings. (Author)

The Broward County, Florida, school psychological service is developing preventive and positive mental health programs. This paper describes one such program, an inservice training workshop offered to school personnel. (Author)

This study attempted to determine whether the administrative location of school psychology programs shaped the curriculum patterns in practicum and internship experience. No significant difference in programs in the surveyed institutions could be ascertained. (Author)

This paper reviews very briefly some of the comprehensive views of the functions of the school psychologists, presents some suggestions which have been made in recent years for the training of school psychological personnel, and discusses the complex interrelationships between the psychologist and all those people and variables which make up his…

A project involving a microconsultation process and a Learning Behavior Lab is described as one model where a district and a college training program have cooperated both to improve training and to provide direct services to students and teachers. (Author)

This report lends confirmation to the feasibility of employing punishment in modifying or eliminating socially unacceptable behavior, and is another example in which amelioration of symptomology seemed to precede a thorough investigation of etiological factors. (Author)

This article is designed to help school psychologists: (1) identify victims of child abuse; (2) interview a victim and the victim's parents; (3) know who to notify when sexual abuse is suspected; and (4) identify suggested intervention and treatment approaches that are appropriate in the practice of school psychology. (Author/PN)

Sixty-three special education teachers in Ohio were surveyed to describe reports (received from school psychologists) on the basis of types of information provided and to rate the usefulness of the reports. Areas for self-assessment and development by psychologists to improve their report-writing are suggested. (Author/CM)

An overview of research on selected aspects of discipline in the high school is presented. The Safe Schools Study is discussed and relevant organizational factors are presented. These include school size, decision making, rules, discipline codes, and punitiveness. An example of school psychology discipline consultation is presented. (Author/PN)