This article gives statistics on suicide rates among children and adolescents of different ages. It describes the various reasons behind suicide in children and the symptoms of deep depression in children and adolescents. The author describes the suicidal student and the child survivor (of a suicidal death in the family) and suggests to the…

A model designed first to identify and encourage available resources and then to provide consultation and direct services within the school is described. An example of how the model was utilized to respond to a crisis situation within a particular elementary school is given. The resulting program is then evaluated and implications for future…

Day treatment for the emotionally disturbed child was the focus of this short-term summer project. Among the positive results of this program was the increased interaction of children, parents, center, and community. (CS)

Seven replies to the problems and criticisms posed by two articles on the problem child'' (UD 502 493 and 494). (RJ)

Advocated is a model for the care of emotionally disturbed children which rejects the position that disturbed children are ill, and which emphasizes viewing children's problems in the context of constant mutual interactions between children and their families, schools, or society. (GW)

A 2-week therapeutic camp was held for 24 emotionally disturbed elementary school children of average intelligence. (GW)

The most difficult method of consultation to schools in socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods is administrative consultation on centered programs and related to community issues. Yet it is an essential approach in dealing with the children's learning disabilities. (Author/ST)

Described and presented are the Scales of Communicative Interaction, designed to identify the child who rejects verbal communicative interaction by delineating his habitual use of interactive language and noting the next highest level of language toward which remedial efforts should be directed. (DB)

In most cases, mothers of the undisturbed and fathers of the disturbed children were alike in that they had difficulty in displaying authority over the child. In contrast, fathers of the nondisturbed and mothers of the disturbed families were more authoritarian. (Author)

Presented is a multiple option curriculum model for current arithmetical programing in development of quantitative concepts for three groups of handicapped children: mentally handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and learning disabled. (Author/CB)

Describes shift from traditional diagnostic function of state child agency toward diagnostic-consultant role, resulting from awareness of viewing pathology in context of child-family-agency-community. Presents two case studies illustrative of this interaction. (CJ)