Promotes writing as a counseling technique to enhance a child's psychological growth. Notes that writing enhances awareness by helping individuals organize their inner selves, contributing to personal integration and self-validation, and providing a cathartic emotional release. Describes current therapeutic writing practices and a therapeutic…

Addresses the issue of training elementary school counselors in using puppets. Offers suggestions for using puppets in counseling children by using fantasy to help children cope with their emotions and with real world problems. Cautions the counselor to practice shifting from reality to fantasy and back again. (ABB)

Discusses the attempted and actual suicide behavior of elementary school children. Notes the incidence of childhood suicide, discusses causes, and considers implications for counselors. Suggests that counseling can help children and their families learn better coping, communication, and problem-solving skills. (JAC)

Describes how various school districts in the United States are complying with the 1987 McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act (reauthorized in 2001). Summarizes changes in McKinney-Vento regulations. (PKP)

Provides first-hand accounts of the success of reading classical literature to elementary school children. Discusses the various projects that students have created after reading great literature. Illustrates the ways teachers have incorporated the use of the classics into their curriculum. (JS)

Describes guided fantasy, yoga and autogenic phrases and thermal feedback as approaches to helping children manage stress. Provides guidelines for the use of these methods, followed by descriptions of each approach. (BH)

Presents a model that the Kentucky counseling and development profession is using to seize the moment for marketing what the presence of school counselors in every elementary school in the commonwealth can do to promote new education reform goals. Explains the Kentucky Reform Act and also looks at past reform efforts. (NB)

Describes sand play as singular, emotional form of individualized expression of inter- and intrapsychic world of the child. Sees miniatures in sand providing bridge between counselor's observations and child. Describes method of sand play, delineates counselor's role and counseling process, discusses interpretation, and reviews stages in sand…

Focuses on the provision of technology to children with disabilities and examines school-subsidized provision of assistive devices and related services. Reviews federal technology legislation and grants to states, school technology teams, role of the elementary school counselor, various ethical considerations, and selection of appropriate…

Claims termination of counseling is punishment, not reward, to emotionally starved children from troubled environments. Discusses how counselor decided to allow students to come for weekly counseling if the student exhibited reasonably acceptable behavior that week. (ABL)

Discusses health, emotional, cognitive, social, and behavioral benefits of physical exercise. Discusses applications of physical exercise and diet in counseling children. Concludes counselors need to develop physical fitness levels and diets for their clients to model. (ABL)

Presents conceptual framework for conducting curriculum-based assessment (CBA) which links together several models of CBA. Notes that integrated model begins with assessment of academic environment, assesses grade placement of child across curriculum materials, assesses child's instructional level within correctly placed grade-level material,…

In an elementary-school professional development program, a group of primary teachers and a university consultant reviewed the research on morphemic analysis and then explored ways to give pupils in grades 1, 2, and 3 an early start on using prefixes, suffixes, and roots to construct word meaning. The teachers examined some middle-grade strategies…

Reviews five major developments in play therapy: psychoanalysis, release therapy, relationship therapy, nondirective therapy, and play therapy in school settings. Suggests ways school counselors can use play therapy. Describes play therapy facilities, location selection, and play materials. Lists objectives of play therapy and how teachers can aid…

Describes the use of sand play for counseling children. Reviews the development of using sand play to help disturbed children resolve traumas by externalizing fantasies and developing a sense of mastery and control over inner impulses. Illustrates the stages of chaos, struggle (organized fighting), and resolution. (ABB)