Suggests that medical advisors may be an important resource for adoptive parents seeking to understand their child's behavior. Examines the effects of the child's past--problems such as loss, poor attachment, or abuse--and how the child and new family adjust. (TJQ)

Reexamines and organizes empirical literature to help counselors develop credible and effective interventions. Tries to place stress counseling within a responsible clinical methodology. A flowchart schema incorporating stress coping modalities--environment, cognitions, emotions, and personal life philosophy--is presented to systematize…

This paper highlights the need for research on the motor, cognitive, and psychological development of children with congenital limb deficiencies. Issues reviewed include optimal age for prosthesis fitting, training procedures, prosthesis usage, cognitive deficits, and vulnerability to psychosocial problems. (Author/DB)

This article addresses the preparation of teachers concerning their legal responsibilities when school-age children threaten or attempt suicide. Court-determined responsibilities of teachers are identified, and implications for teachers (such as understanding school policy and careful documentation and reporting of relevant student behavior) are…

Reflects on one teacher's reaction when she discovered that students in general education in her school are plagued with troubles as debilitating as her behaviorally impaired students. These students exhibited similar signs of learned helplessness and school failure. Describes how she went through the grief process with each student's story;…

Examines the prevalence, developmental course, and predictive power of child mental health problems for young children in general and low-income, diverse populations in particular. Notes discrepancies between Head Start agency-level data, national estimates, and intensive studies of similar populations. Describes new collaborative federal…

Describes the basic tenets of social and emotional learning; discusses the emotional and social challenges that middle school children face; and provides suggestions for parents and teachers to help promote smooth sailing through these rocky middle school years. (SR)

Presents a call to action to all adults who impact the lives of students to make the time to pay attention to students, encourage their strengths, promote their learning, and model considerate and pro-social behavior--to notice them and talk to them. (SR)

Ten authors' viewpoints about preparing healthy children for possible hospitalization are presented. Selected topics include (1) the fallacy of "preparing" young healthy children for possible hospitalization, (2) parents as the best preparers of young children, (3) preparing young children for unplanned hospital admissions, (4) anxiety…

The article discusses learning disabilities and concomitant emotional/behavioral problems in three areas: problems of control and regulation of impulse, problems in perception and concept formation, and defective self concept. (Author/DB)

Offers 10 reasons for not eliminating counseling programs in schools. Counters arguments for eliminating counseling programs because of budget constraints. Argues that children still have emotional problems which require counseling. (ABB)

Discusses how to use literature to help children of alcoholics. Provides a list of appropriate books. (FL)

Parents can help foster their children's success as readers by reading to them as much as possible. This paper, four of four on literature and the young child, discusses two ways that parents can help, stating that: reading to the child helps him or her develop and appreciate humor; and reading to the child helps him or her cope with uncomfortable…

Discusses the stress and frustrations that human service professionals face in dealing, within bureaucratic constraints, with people in trouble. (GC)

Parents of a junior high school student with emotional problems express their dissatisfaction with the educational program provided for their son, while the student himself voices a desire to continue at the public junior high school despite his difficulty with other students. (SB)