Recognizing the increase in school violence, California recently enacted the Hughes Bill that requires a positive behavioral intervention plan for individuals with exceptional needs. Although special education teachers are required to develop positive behavioral intervention plans, most have not been trained in the skills necessary to develop or…

Consultation is increasingly becoming one of the most important role responsibilities of the school psychologists, and can be distinguished by several types of services: collaborative consultation, mental health consultation, organizational consultation, behavioral consultation, and peer consultation. The efficacy of consultation services is…

Bringing therapy to an end too early or prolonging it can be equally counter-productive. This book explores the reasons for unsatisfactory endings and offers advice on avoiding them and achieving a timely conclusion to the therapy. Chapter 1 looks at the aims and outcomes of therapy, including the relief of symptoms and the management of loss or…

This paper describes the evolution of the helper therapy principle into a popular idea in community psychology and argues for the increased use of helping by the client as a therapeutic tool. Further, the paper attempts to explain the helper therapy principle by use of current psychological theory and research. (Author)

Reviews current hypotheses and investigations concerning helping behavior, addressing the role of normative and situationally specific rules, the impact of affect, and the subject variables associated with the elicitation of children's helping behavior. (Author/JM)

The Crisis Health Aide program described in this article is an outgrowth of the University of Nebraska Health Center's Aide program. (Authors/CB)

The author points out cultural values and patterns of behavior among Mexican-Americans and barriers to assimilation in an alien society that demand adaptation of the initial contact phases of social work. How the technique was adapted to provide effective counseling and achieve agency-client partnership is illustrated. (Author)

Meaningful social change requires healthy black and white relationships which do exist and can be enlarged. (DM)

Distinctions between psychological versus task helping and attempted versus achieved help were applied to the helping behaviors of normal and retarded children of 2 age groups observed in natural settings. (Authors)

Relates Stock and Thelan's trainability index to openness and empathy by testing the job effectiveness of community and mental health aides. (MB)

The authors have tried to show how our schools can perform a great service to young people in helping them achieve self actualization by allowing them to learn and practice the steps in decision making as they plan their lives after graduation. (Author)

School social work has short circuited its total effectiveness as the result of nearly exclusive attention to individuals, groups, or situations that fall within the many sided definition of the problem." Attention is directed toward appropriate references in the literature of social work that relate to the dilemma. (Author)

Suggests that current outmoded and inadequate conceptions of the therapeutic process are a major obstacle to the advancement of clinical social work practice. Presents an integrative ecosystem model that expresses the distinctive social work concern with person, situation, and helping relationship, in their reciprocal psychodynamic and…