This book is devoted to interventions that help to make a difference in the lives of children. Children have many challenges, some of which cannot be addressed effectively during the school day. The role of community psychologists has become increasingly important in helping to meet the social and emotional needs of children. This book presents…

The fourfold purpose of this study was to determine if student attitudes toward community service, student attitudes toward civic involvement, student attitudes about life skills, and student attitudes toward civic engagement and service learning differed based on enrollment in a course with a service learning component or enrollment in a course…

This bulletin focuses on the method that teacher/authors use to connect curriculum with community: service-learning. The bulletin's introduction notes that, although service-learning projects can occur within any subject area, they have a particular suitability for the social studies, given the discipline's focus on the skills, values, and…

Summary of the background and major thrusts of the Vail, Colorado training conference (July, 1973) followed by reactions to the conference by 15 participants, and major implications for counseling psychology which deal with issues of professionalization, open career system, expansion of range of persons trained and served, and evaluation of…

Advocated is a model for the care of emotionally disturbed children which rejects the position that disturbed children are ill, and which emphasizes viewing children's problems in the context of constant mutual interactions between children and their families, schools, or society. (GW)

Describes shift from traditional diagnostic function of state child agency toward diagnostic-consultant role, resulting from awareness of viewing pathology in context of child-family-agency-community. Presents two case studies illustrative of this interaction. (CJ)

Based on a paper delivered at the 22nd Annual Conference of the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, Kansas City, Missouri, April 30, 1970. (Editor)

Speech given at the Consultation for Educational Justice in New York City by the coordinator of Milwaukee's Federation of Independent Community Schools. Discusses the community schools of Milwaukee and, in particular, their financing problems. (JM)

Concrete description of the components and operation of an institution based on "a new pattern of teacher education and responsive to community needs, and one which the author envisions as "the logical next step in urban higher education. (JS)