Developmentally handicapped students represent a unique and perplexing challenge for school couselors. Most counselors have little or no coursework in special education and may experience uncertainty regarding their ability to intervene effectively with these students. Contributions made by cognitive psychology to the education of handicapped…

Investigates the effects of child behavior problems on teachers' (N=3) intervention fidelity across two intervention protocols: escape extinction and functional communication training. Results indicate that a high rate of behavior problems during escape extinction appeared to punish teachers' efforts. A low rate of behavior problems was evident…

Presents six developmentally oriented articles on childhood psychopathology. Reviews research dealing with autism, social isolation, interpersonal understanding, sociomoral reasoning, cognitive controls, and aggression and includes an overview of progress and problems in the cognitive approach to clinical child psychology. (JAC)