Attendance at overnight school camp is an integral component of the Australian educational landscape. However, some students are reluctant to attend camp, while others refuse to attend at all. School psychologists play an important part in supporting these students and their families, and teachers. While much is published about general school…

Youth with refugee backgrounds face challenges in their journey towards successful integration in Australia. Some challenges relate to macro-level changes occurring in the world of work and some to their transition from an agrarian or industrial society to a post-industrial Western country. Addressing the future career development of youth with…

This article proposes that consideration could be given to an invitational intervention rather than an expectational intervention when support personnel respond to a critical incident in schools. Intuitively many practitioners know that it is necessary for guidance/counselling personnel to intervene in schools in and following times of trauma.…

Addresses the dialectic between the "inner" and the "outer" learnings required for counselors to change their roles to becoming supervisors. Describes a course where "parallel process" issues between supervisor, trainee, and client were evident. The bias in the course was that all learning requires a change in…

A University of Sydney (Australia) program to enhance training of academic staff supervising graduate students is described. Program structure, training methods, and participant evaluations of workshops and seminars are detailed, and factors contributing to or inhibiting program success are discussed. (MSE)