Explores common reactions that family members experience from living with a depressed child, reviews the family assessment of a depressed child or adolescent, and highlights specific therapeutic issues that typically arise in working with families of depressed children and adolescents. (NB)

Notes that, since Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been given recognition as a disability, colleges and universities face challenge of implementing guidelines and programming for this population of students with ADHD. Provides overview of ADHD along with suggested guidelines for addressing the needs of college students with…

Combines a discussion of classroom uses for the children's book "My Two Uncles" with one on bibliotherapy with children. Explains that bibliotherapy provides information about confusing or sensitive topics through literature. Suggests that "My Two Uncles" can be used to reassure students who know homosexual couples and to encourage tolerance. (DSK)

Seeks to understand teachers' beliefs, values, and the motivations for certain counseling referrals and to help school counselors protect preventive developmental programs through teacher training and effective consultation. Results demonstrate that factors such as models of helping and teacher assumptions moderate the referral process in a…

Models of self-regulated learning and of children's coping both consider help-seeking an adaptive response to academic problems, yet students do not always seek help when it is needed, and help-seeking generally declines across early adolescence. A study of 765 children in elementary and middle school (Grades 3-6) during fall and spring of the…

It used to be that students who dropped out were considered lazy and unmotivated. Some students were actually pushed out and encouraged to leave, as if this solves the problem! While teachers blame kids for dropping out, kids blame an educational system "gone bad." Dropping out is no longer viewed as solely a student problem, but rather a problem…

The purpose of this study is to investigate how sixth graders develop inquiry skills to construct explanations in an inquiry-based learning environment. We designed a series of inquiry-based learning activities and identified four inquiry skills that are relevant to students' construction of explanation. These skills include skills to identify…

In this article, we describe a continuum of responsibilities shared by faculty and non-faculty academic advisors as well as personal counselors at 4-year colleges and universities. After addressing terminology, we describe a continuum of issues that advisors and counselors routinely address and identify some triggers that might suggest that a…

Teachers' views of education, their students, and their disciplines were assessed based on interviews with 20 faculty members from a small liberal arts college. The interviews were content analyzed, and the relationships between epistemological beliefs, course objectives, and views of student difficulties (e.g., skill deficiencies, personality)…

The purpose of this study was to determine at what grade levels and to what extent upper elementary school students used selected psychoactive drugs, reasons for use, and availability of selected drugs within the school. (Author)

This investigation explored married student perception needs through the application of a needs assessment approach created for this study. Married student needs or perceived life condition deficiencies are defined, and implications are made about the management of college and university student personnel programs. (Author)

Counselors are often confronted with phone calls from worried parents. This column outlines procedures used by two counselors when dealing with such calls. Their observations and interventions are reported separately, but their comments are presented as a dialogue. (Author/PC)

This paper presents a broad overview of information about delinquency, crime, and school discipline and violence in relation to U.S. youths. Part 1 compares U.S. and West Germany's crime rates for 1980-1985, while part 2 focuses on U.S. juvenile crime facts and on the contribution of the increasing number of U.S. family breakdowns to juvenile…

Most high schools face the problem of the chronically absent student. In the fall of 1985, the Centennial Effective Schools Committee in Gresham, Oregon established a subcommittee to examine chronic absenteeism among its student body. The committee interviewed 50 students with a history of poor attendance and developed a profile of the typical…

How TV programs that prepare students for life's decisions are produced. (HB)