Educational and treatment programs for troubled youth face formidable barriers in building pro-social group climates. When a youth is loyal to deviant peers, positive adult bonds are obstructed. Fritz Redl once observed that therapeutic efforts with such a youth is akin to having a "gang under the couch." Effective ecological interventions employ…

Consultation services have been considered an essential and important role for school psychologists throughout the history of the field. Traditionally consultation has been cast as a problem-solving process, nevertheless, it can be thought of as a knowledge-linking process in which psychologists advance knowledge in schools to various mediators…

School psychologists are currently being called upon to spend more time in direct and indirect interventions to assist students with academic and behavioral problems. This study examined if time used for interventions is related to school psychologists' effectiveness. A group of Iowa school psychologists (N=91), who in turn identified up to three…

The author maintains that the skills of the counselor should be available to the teaching staff as well as to the student body. This article describes this experience in working with one particulat teacher. (Author/HMV)

A program was established to improve communication between students and the guidance counselor at one elementary school where a lack of student-counselor communication had resulted in a lower priority given to guidance services. The goals of the program were to: (1) make students aware of opportunities to meet with the counselor; (2) have teachers…

Teachers who feel discouraged have difficulty solving problems and finding alternatives to situations. Discouraged teachers need to develop an awareness of their own sources of encouragement, of the encouragement process itself, and of how to apply the encouragement process to themselves. A study of elementary school teachers revealed that…

Many surveys of school psychologists have documented their desire to devote more time to consultation--an indirect service delivery system in which the school psychologist interacts with a consultee (teacher, parent, other professional) for purposes of solving a client problem. To expand the work of Martin and Curtis (1981) on school…

Pedagogical research emphasizes the need for teachers to be involved in developing the personal skills and interactional abilities of students in their classrooms. The role of counselors in teacher training and the implications for teacher and counselor interaction in training and practice are discussed. (KS)

Compared nationwide survey responses of 225 school psychologists to their responses in 1981-82. Results revealed significant increases in amount of time spent in consultation and amount of time desired for consultation; significant decreases in psychologist-student ratio and overall satisfaction with profession. Sex differences were found for…

Reviews the importance of reading in the primary grades, the emotional factors influencing reading, and the importance of the school counselor and the teacher working as a team to assist students with reading problems. (Author/BL)

Examined the relationship between the extent to which school psychologists incorporated an interpersonally based problem-solving process (IBPSP) in their consultation and several defined outcomes of consultation. A highly significant positive relationship exists between the IBPS Scale and general behavior change, teacher satisfaction,…

Maintains that the counselor can make valuable contributions to school staffs as a stress management consultant. Possible stress management workshop components are described and guidelines are provided for consultation in a school setting. Recent literature, research, and resource materials are described. (Author/PAS)

Concerns PL 94-142 enactment, specifically school responsibility to provide sex education to handicapped students. Describes training format for counselor-conducted workshops to help teachers overcome sexual myths assigned to handicapped and create emotional and educational climate conducive to sex education instruction. (NRB)

Describes a model of delivery of services that enables school psychologists to meet testing demands while initiating a broad range of consultative services. The model includes having available: (1) funds for contract testing, (2) conferences with teachers prior to formal referral of children, and (3) qualified contract evaluators. (Author/RC)