Administered Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and Wide Range Achievement Test to 934 learning-disabled students between ages 8 and 16. Principal-components analysis with varimax rotation indicated existence of seven factors: Verbal Reasoning, Academic…

A psychoeducational approach to stress management has a number of benefits: (1) people attend as students not patients; (2) teachers are not clinically responsible for students; (3) support and ideas are derived from shared group experiences; and (4) less stigma is attached to classes in educational rather than psychiatric settings. (SK)

Describes dynamic assessment approach to psychoeducational assessment as differing from static assessment in that it is addressed to new goals, uses different content, relies upon different assessment methods, and yields results that are interpreted differently. Sees approach as holding promise as "nondiscriminatory" assessment and to assessment…

Reacts to Waldo and Bauman's Goals and Process (GAP) matrix for groups article in terms of its usefulness to student-development educators leading psychoeducational groups. Briefly describes the context within which student-development educators do psychoeducational group work. Provides a perspective on applying the proposed matrix and discusses…

Discusses the process of conceptualizing and planning psychoeducational groups, particularly the difficulty of determining the appropriate order or sequence of group session topics and structured exercises. Provides a specific model for group counselors to follow for conceptualizing and developing all types of psychoeducational groups. (Contains…

Thirty-five clients who had received counseling completed a letter to a friend describing in detail what they had learned from counseling. Responses were analyzed and classified using the Structure of Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy. Results suggest that an expanded SOLO offers a promising and exciting way to view the outcomes of counseling…

More than 20 years ago, psychologists first described gifted students with learning disabilities (LD). In the past decade, several sets of identification criteria have been proposed for this population. Many of the suggested assessment practices are unsupported by research in psychoeducational assessment, and some have been directly contradicted…

Some argue that the goal of education is to influence out-of-school learning activity, yet little research exists on how teachers can help students develop an interest in a topic and continue to pursue that interest outside of school. The current study tested classroom context variables from self-determination theory (teachers' autonomy support)…

The effects of relaxation exercises on orthography performance in language arts education of fifth to seventh graders were experimentally tested. Participants were 399 basic secondary school students and their language arts teachers from the Hauptschule, a German type of secondary education covering grades five to nine that leads to a basic…

If everyone needs an education through two years of college or the equivalent, then the nation has an obligation to provide a far more certain pathway for postsecondary success than it does now. Because so many young people fail to complete the final years of high school, graduate but do not apply to college, or begin postsecondary education only…

This study compares the effectiveness of panic control treatment (PCT) with that of a psychoeducational supportive treatment (PE-SUP) in treating panic disorder among a veteran sample with a primary diagnosis of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Thirty-five patients randomized to receive 10 individual sessions of either PCT or PE-SUP…

Intergenerational relationships established between grandparents and grandchildren have aroused great scientific interest in recent years. It is true that, nowadays, different studies have been conducted in which the typology of these relationships has been researched. Studies have used variables such as intra- and interindividual styles in the…

If colleges and universities are truly committed to promoting the well-being of their students and fostering their academic success, they must attend to the needs of grieving students. One way to do this is to invite students to use the university's counseling services following the death of a loved one. However, although grief counseling can be…

Given the high number of requests for test accommodations and the myriad of test accommodations available, test agencies give considerable attention to the process involved in the provision of test accommodations for high stakes tests. The decision to provide an accommodation to an individual with learning disabilities is based largely on the…

A discussion of how the fairy tale influences the development of the child's speech, fantasy, intellectual abilities, emotions, and personality as a whole. (Author/HB)