When a student is in dire need of emotional support, caring adults in the school can make a difference. This essential resource helps practitioners prepare all school personnel to respond sensitively and effectively to children and adolescents in crisis. Packed with user-friendly features--including over 50 reproducible tools--the book provides…

The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…

Some 176 graduate students in counseling psychology, clinical psychology, and vocational rehabilitation counseling programs were studied to determine their philosophies of human nature. Concurrently 70 program directors indicated what they wanted their students to believe. On Philosophies of Human Nature scales, the students tended to have a…

In order to make mental health-related knowledge available widely and in a form to encourage its use, the National Institute of Mental Health collaborated with the American Psychoanalytic Association in this pioneer effort to abstract the 23 volumes of the "Standard Edition of Freud." The volume is a comprehensive compilation of…

The article on health care options for children with disabilities includes a review of the changes in hospital and doctor coverage and newer types of health insurance, including Health Maintenance Organizations and Independent Practice Associations. Suggestions for parents of disabled children are offered. (CL)

Ethical issues that apply to the practice of consultation are neglected in much of the counseling literature. Suggestions for action are proposed. (Author)

Explores the administrative dilemmas of the imbalance between mental health needs of the elderly and funding for mental health programs to serve them. Discusses possible approaches to the problem. (Author/BH)

Examined differences between offenders (N=240) by referral source, completion of referral, and recommendation for further services. The most substantial relationship was between source and outcome of referral, with probationers referred by probation officers more likely to be recommended for mental health services. (JAC)

The Mental Health Program of the University of Illinois at Chicago has demonstrated significant consumer demand for outpatient community mental health services for people with mental retardation. Public policy planners should consider that outpatient programs may reach many more people than programs within state institutions, especially for those…

Report by the Department of Health Education, Central Michigan University. (MM)

A book concerning the use of a "rehabilitation hospital/factory in treating chronic mental patients is reviewed. (DB)

Discusses the stress management program at the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Includes discussion of the costs of the program. (IRT)

A process is described for developing health education materials that includes the selection of the target audience, organization and presentation of content, and pretesting the material. (JOW)

This study investigated the effects of client ethnicity and client-counselor ethnic match on treatment outcomes (i.e., GAF-difference [from the Global Assessment of Functioning Axis V rating of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, American Psychiatric Association, 1994] and client visitation) of 1,946 child…