The Child Resource Team was designed to operate as an alternative to outside agency referral. The multidisciplinary unit provides intensive therapy to school-aged children and their families. Following two years of operation, an analysis of the team's successes and failures has revealed significant gains and difficulties. (Author)

Factors influencing the practice of school psychology are examined and the suggestion is made that school psychology may serve as a basis for determining what lies ahead for all of professional psychology. (Author)

Hypothesizes that psychologists would give higher IQ estimates (1) to black and to Mexican-American children than to white children; (2) to lower-class than to middle-class children; and (3) to profiles with much scatter than to profiles with limited scatter. (Author/RK)

This article was written to demonstrate how career education concepts and techniques can be integrated into school psychology training programs. Each basic career education phase was presented along with implications for training programs. (Author)

Discussed are presentations and evaluations of Freud found in psychology textbooks from 1908 to 1975 in terms of the empirical versus the nonempirical views about the proper subject matter of psychology. Findings indicate that psychologists remain divided in their attitudes toward Freud. (Author/DB)

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study on public relations activities of practicing school psychologists. School psychologists have been called upon to take responsibility for increasing awareness of the profession and building partnerships with potential consumers. With the Practical Strategies initiative and suggested…

This paper provides information for school psychologists regarding the necessity and benefits of school-based prevention programming for students at risk for developing eating disorders (i.e., females). School-based programming is a cost-effective means of reaching the largest number of individuals at once and identifying those individuals…

This book provides readers with direction on how to organize psychoeducational groups while helping them enhance skills for effectively leading such groups. Offering an applied approach, the author integrates research and practice to suggest leadership strategies while addressing special issues such as children of divorce, anger management,…

School counselors, psychologists, and administrators were surveyed in a three-state area to determine the relationship between the consultative/collaborative services within a comprehensive school counseling program. A description is provided of the three consultative/collaborative models (scientific/technological, human development, and…

In response to requests from law enforcement professionals for guidelines on investigating child abuse and neglect, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention developed the Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse series. This document is a synposis of each Portable Guide and provides annotated bibliographies of the series. The…

School psychologists are often asked to make significant decisions about students, but there has been a lack of research on how psychologists make such decisions. Obtaining the objective that school psychologists make sound decisions is an important goal, which involves training in how to minimize the adverse impact of predictable biases in human…

This paper describes the development of the fourth and latest version of the Teacher Variance Inventory-IV (TVI-IV). It was designed to improve the psychometric properties of the TVI and explore other characteristics that enable the TVI to be used for teacher consultation. The TVI-IV is a self-report measure based on Teacher Variance theory, a…

Argues that, overall, the black change agent must be concerned with the purpose and goal of behavior; he must be interested in reinforcing correct goals rather than correcting deficiencies: the psychology of use is a powerful force to support the direction of self-determination and positive change with Blacks. (Author/JM)

Some of the problems confronting the counseling psychologist in high risk programs are considered here, including approaches to counseling, remediation and administrative issues. (Author)

Evaluated was the extent to which psychologists and physicians made use of a measure of adaptive behavior in the classification of 100 mentally retarded children (5 to 16 years of age) during a 10 year period. (Author/MC)