Suggests that an organizational perspective on the school psychologist's role can provide a basis for integrating disparate activities, reduce ambiguity produced by lack of role consensus, and facilitate more effective role behavior. Implications for practice, training, and research in school psychology are discussed. (JAC)

Reinforcement hierarchy implies movement along a continuum from top to bottom, from primitive levels of reinforcement to more sophisticated levels. Unless it is immediately obvious that a child cannot function without the use of lower-order reinforcers, we should approach him as though he responds to topmost reinforcers until he demonstrates…

It is the thesis of this paper that the specialty within the field of psychology most crucial in the role of community contact is that of school psychology. (Author)

The author contends that phenomenology and psychoanalysis have in common that they consider the investigator and the subject as equals as evidenced by the application of their basic principles and of their findings to both investigators and investigatees whom they consider human beings cooperating in a joint search for knowledge. (Author)

In a speech before the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Miami Beach, 1970, the author attempts to sum up some essential features of the prevailing psychological theorizing and research as well as the major criticisms brought up by the so-called "Critical Psychologists". (Author/BY)

Past and present therapeutic orientations, amount and adequacy of training, areas of specialization, and work settings were examined. Results showed that training is most adequate for those who use psychodynamic approaches and least adequate for those who use techniques bearing on social, cultural, and environmental aspects of mental health.…

Psychologists at state developmental disabilities facilities (high-experience group), psychologists at state mental health facilities (moderate-experience group), and clinical graduate students (low-experience group) rated a case history of a person with schizophrenia on 11 scales of psychopathology. Professional experience was associated with…

Thirty-one clinical psychologists scored Comprehension, Similarities, and Vocabulary subtest items common to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Revised (WISC-R). The results on interrater scoring agreement suggest that the scoring of these subtests may be less subjective than…

Describes how cognitive maps can help to stimulate discussion of the structural inter-relationships of psychological theory in college-level history of psychology classes. The author describes a cognitive mapping activity in which students pair prominent theorists and theories, rate their degrees of similarity, and graph the relationships of their…

The qualifications of the "perfect" supervisor of school psychologists are described. (BW)

The article describes a model for conceptualizing the psychology of adjustment to visual loss. The aim of the model is to establish definitions and guidelines within which techniques for working with the blind may be used. (Author)