The role of the supervisor of school psychological services is to obtain top performance from those who provide direct service in the schools. This function is carried out in four areas: departmental functioning, consultation, administrative support, and continuing professional development. (Author/BW)

The Behavioral-Systems Approach (BSA), a broad-based approach to intervention with a range of school social systems, is presented and some outcome evidence of the utility of the approach for practicing school psychologists reported. (Author/BW)

The article delineates the training and competencies individuals should possess if they have primary responsibility for classification and placement decisions for the learning disabled. (Author)

As a result of rejection by personnel psychologists of the erroneous law of small numbers and of the adoption of correct inferential procedures, the future of criterion-related validity promises to be bright. Probable future developments include widespread appreciation of the low statistical power characteristic of small samples. (Author)

Briefly reviewed is the historical perspective of school psychology, demographic information on the numbers of school psychologists, and services to special education, including underused roles in inservice education and research and evaluation. (DB)

Roles of psychologists as forensic specialists in psychiatric hospitals that specialize in patients of the criminal justice system are discussed. Describes dual role of psychologists in forensic hospitals and pertinent issues that are confronted. Emphasis is given to responsibilities psychologists have, to patients and to society. (Author)

A new operationalization of androgyny, the median split technique, differs from the original method in the distribution of scores produced and in the results obtained in two recent studies. The implications of these differences are discussed and future directions for the measurement of psychological androgyny are investigated. (Author)

Traditional psychodynamic terms used in treating individual patients have proven less than helpful in working with families. This glossary provides an introduction to language of the field, knowledge usually not accumulated by the new family therapist until s/he has worked with families over time. (Author/BEF)

Some misconceptions surrounding the question of a behavioral or an anti-behavioral methodology for instructional psychology are examined. A behavioral approach is recommended in the absence of viable operationalized alternatives. (Editor)

Describes the use of autobiographies of famous psychologists as source material in the teaching of psychology. Selected biographical excerpts are presented. (Author/DB)

A psychologist with experience in two government agencies suggests that good scientific selection practices and equal employment opportunity are compatible and interdependent goals. (Author/RK)

Describes the results of an empirical investigation studying pupils' views of the work of school psychologists in Estonia. Pupils who had visited psychologists considered themselves to be less successful in school, to have more conflicts with parents, and to be more frequently in a bad mood. The work of school psychologists was evaluated…

This study was conducted to determine current collaborative efforts of practicing school counselors and school psychologists in one southeastern state. Implications for educators and a training model that distinctly accentuates collaboration are presented. (Contains 12 references, 2 tables, and an appendix.) (GCP)

The tenets of a cognitive, motivational model called hope theory (Snyder et al., 1991) are reviewed, along with the two accompanying instruments for measuring hope in children and adolescents. More than a decade of research on hope theory as it relates to students, teachers, and schools is summarized. Likewise, the applications of hope theory for…

Nine one-hour counseling interviews were examined for the relationship between counselor forward lean and client-perceived rapport. Results indicated that more extreme forward lean was significantly more common during minutes rated as "very high" in rapport. By contrast, less acute forward lean was significantly less frequent during such…