With the propensity of African American children at higher risk for academic success due to their disproportionate rate of school discipline problems compared to their peers, school counselors are challenged to provide culturally and developmentally responsive services for this population. This article provides a brief rationale for the use of a…

Discusses school counselor's role in helping troubled students from farm families who are losing their farms. Suggests that school counselors should use strategic family therapy to provide help for the student's entire social situation, including parents' farm failure, to offer hope for future, and should view student's symptom as an act of…

This report presents the collective results of studies funded under the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention congressional directive. The studies confirm that young African-American males are disproportionately involved as offenders and victims of violence, that firearms play a large role in juvenile violence, and that gang…