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This book emphasizes the importance of collaboration between the school and the home/parents in enhancing the possibilities for students' success. Twenty-four individual chapters by 45 contributors include: (1) "Family Systems and the School" (William Doherty and Vida Peskay); (2) "Home-School Collaboration: Effects, Issues, and Opportunities" (Sandra Christenson, Theresa Rounds, and Mary Jo Franklin); (3) "Parent Involvement and Success for All Children: What We Know Now" (Susan McAllister Swap); (4) "Partners or Adversaries? Home-School Collaboration across Culture, Race, and Ethnicity" (Larke Nahme Huang and Jewelle Taylor Gibbs); (5) "Home-School Processes in Diverse Ethnic Groups, Social Classes, and Family Structures" (Sanford Dornbusch and Philip Ritter); (6) "Parent Education as a Means for Improving the School Achievement of Low-Income African-American Children" (Craig Frisby); (7) "Characteristics of Parent-Professional Partnerships" (Carl Dunst, Charlie Johanson, Theresa Rounds, Carol Trivette, and Debbie Hamby); (8) "Competence Enhancement Training for Children: An Integrated Child, Parent, and School Approach" (Gerald August, Deborah Anderson, and Michael Bloomquist); (9) "From Blame to Solutions: Solution-Oriented Family-School Consultation" (Cindy Carlson, Julia Hickman, and Connie Burrows Horton); (10) "The Family-School Collaboration Project: Systemic Interventions for School Improvement" (Howard Weiss and Martha Edwards); (11) "School-Based Interventions for Infants and Toddlers in a Family Setting" (Martha Farrell Erickson); (12)"Home-School Partnerships and Preschool Services: From Self-Assessment to Innovation" (Kathleen Paget and Susan Chapman); (13) "An Embedded Curriculum Approach for Teaching Students How to Learn" (Kenneth Kiewra); (14) "Training Parents to Facilitate Homework Completion: A Model for Home-School Collaboration" (Daniel Olympia, William Jenson, Elaine Clark, and Susan Sheridan); (15) "Behavioral Intervention: A Home and School Approach" (Richard Wielkiewicz); (16) "How to Deal with Difficult School Discipline Problems: A Family Systems Approach Adapted for Schools" (Michael Valentine); (17) "Involving Parents in the Special Education Process" (Joan Silverstein, Judith Springer, and Nancy Russo); (18) "Leadership Skills for School Psychologists: Improving Parental Involvement in Multidisciplinary Team Interactions" (E. Scott Huebner); (19) "A Public School for Students with Autism and Severe Handicaps" (Andrew Bondy and Kris Battaglini); (20) "Home-School Collaboration for Children from Substance-Abusing Families" (Margaret Walker); (21) "Nurturing Children of Divorce: A Shared Responsibility" (Jane Close Conoley and Theresa Bahns); (22) "Family-School Partnerships: The Response to Child Sexual Abuse as a Challenging Example" (Deborah Tharinger and Connie Burrows Horton); (23) "Utilization of Community Resources: An Important Variable for the Home-School Interface" (Dianne Apter); and (24) "School and Family Partnerships: Leadership Roles for School Psychologists" (Joyce Epstein). (NB)

This book is organized around several themes, namely: the changing context for the professional practice of school psychology; classroom- and school-based prevention and intervention programs; and professional training issues specific to intervention-oriented school psychology. The first three chapters address numerous reform and restructuring issues, and their relationship to interventions in schools and classrooms. The need to carefully link assessment and intervention is emphasized. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with evaluation issues. Chapters 6 through 12 discuss general intervention strategies that cut across age and grade levels and that focus on improving study skills, teaching social skills, peer tutoring, self-monitoring, computer-assisted instruction, mainstream assistance teams, and supporting students with severe intellectual disabilities and severe challenging behaviors. Chapters 13 and 14 focus on interventions at the preschool level; chapters 15 through 19 concentrate on interventions at the elementary level; and chapters 20 through 23 look at interventions at the secondary level. Interventions for specific problems are addressed in chapters 24 through 32. Problems addressed include addictive behaviors, vandalism, truancy and school absenteeism, stealing, lying and cheating, swearing, depression, attention problems, and conduct problems. The final two chapters deal with specific professional training issues that focus on the knowledge and skills needed by pre-service and inservice professionals to function effectively as instructional and behavioral interventionists. (NB)

Originally developed to respond to the Desert Storm/Persian Gulf War, this resource book provides information designed to help parents, teachers, and service providers to plan and implement a comprehensive response to meeting children's emotional needs during a crisis. Contributors are experts on different kinds of crises that school age children typically face. Papers included are: (1) "Crisis Counseling in the Schools" (Jonathan Sandoval); (2) "Crisis Counseling: Conceptualizations and General Principles" (Jonathan Sandoval); (3) "Best Practices in Crisis Intervention" (Valerie Smead); (4) "Best Practices in Crisis Intervention" (Scott Poland and Gayle Pitcher); (5) "Crisis Response Teams: A Must for All School Districts" (Al Neuhaus); (6) "Crisis Teams Can Minimize Traumatic Events" (from "Spotlight," Newsletter of the Los Angeles School District); (7) "Role of the School Psychologist in Confronting Crisis" (Stewart Ehly); (8) "Child Psychiatrists Describe Children's Reactions to Disaster" (summary of an article in the "Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry"); (9) "Bereaved Children Speak" (Dorothy Vacca); (10) "Children and Anxiety" (Thomas Huberty); (11) "Children and Reactions to Death" (Charles Heath); (12) "Physical, Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Crises" (B. Q. Haffen and B. Peterson); (13) "Reactions to Crises: Developmental Differences" (Scott Poland); (14) "Children and Responses to Desert Storm: Teacher Handout" (Debby Waddell and Alex Thomas); (15) "School's Response to Death, Suicide and Loss" (Peter Sheras); (16) "What to Say When Someone Dies" (Ann Mueller); (17) "Children in Crisis: Stress and Coping" (Stewart Ehly); (18) "Tips for Teachers in Dealing with Crises" (Scott Poland); (19) "Children's Response to Crisis: A Developmental Perspective" (Margaret Dawson); (20) "Responses to Children and Adolescents: Developmental Perspectives" (Scott Poland); (21) "Children and Responses to Desert Storm: A Parent Handout" (Debby Waddell and Alex Thomas); (22) "Parents' Responses to Children" (Scott Poland); (23) "Effects of Trauma Still a Part of Everyone's Life" (Betty Spicher); (24) "Effects Last Even When Sun Shines" (Jan Harlsom); (25) "Winnetka: One Year Later" (Harry Dillard); (26) "Early Intervention in a Disaster: The Cokeville Hostage/Bombing Crisis" (Nohl Sandall); (27) "Impressions of the Bay Area Quake" (Betty Spicher); (28) "Cross Cultural Issues in Responding to a Tragedy: The Stockton Schoolyard Shootings" (Mike Armstrong); and (29) "Disaster Team Works During Crisis" (Gary Aderman). (NB)

This book provides a comprehensive perspective on the issues of at-risk children. Twenty individual chapters by 32 contributors include: (1) "Bilingual Education's 20-Year Failure To Provide Rights Protection for Language-Minority Students" (Keith Baker); (2) "Language-Minority Education Litigation Policy: 'The Law of the Land'" (Eugene Garcia); (3) "Development of Bilingualism: Myth & Reality" (Barry McLaughlin); (4) "Bilingual Immersion Education: Educational Equity for Language-Minority Students" (Kathryn Lindholm); (5) "Bilingualism and Cognitive Ability: Theory, Research, and Controversy" (Rafael Diaz); (6) "An Examination of Individual Factors Associated with the Academic Success and Failure of Mexican-American and Anglo Students" (J. Manuel Casas, Mike Furlong, V. Scott Solberg, Olga Carranza); (7) "A Model for Interventions with Low Achieving Minority Students" (Antoinette Halsell Miranda, Maryann Santos de Barona); (8) "Rashomon in the Classroom: Multiple Perspectives of Teachers, Parents, and Students" (Ursula Cassanova); (9) "Implementing Effective Instructional Interventions for Minority Students" (Todd Fletcher, Carlos Cardona-Morales); (10) "Recruitment and Retention of Minority School Psychologists" (Doris Benson); (11) "Critical Issues in Training School Psychologists to Serve Minority School Children" (Andres Barona, Maryann Santos de Barona, Arthur Flores, Martha Gutierrez); (12) "Achieving Equal Educational Outcomes for Black Children" (Janice Hale-Benson); (13) "Strategies and Techniques for Establishing Home-School Partnerships with Minority Parents" (Patricia Edwards); (14) "Insuring Equity in Education: Preparing School Personnel for Culturally and Linguistically Divergent At-Risk Handicapped Students" (Sandra Fradd, M. Jeanne Weismantel, Vivian Correa, Bob Algozzine); (15) "Preschool Screening of Ethnic Minority Children and Children of Poverty: Issues for Practice and Research" (Robert Pianta, Ronald Reeve); (16) "Step-by-Step Procedure for the Assessment of Language-Minority Children" (Linda Caterino); (17) "Identifying the Culturally Diverse Gifted Child" (Cheryll Pearson, Stephen DeMers); (18) "Use of Projective Techniques in the Assessment of Hispanic School Children" (Andres Barona, Arthur Hernandez); (19) "Perspectives on Language Proficiency Assessment" (Arnulfo Ramirez); and (20) "Use of Achievement Tests with Non-Native English-Speaking Language-Minority Students" (Daniel Ulibarri). (NB)

This book is a companion volume to "Best Practices in School Psychology," and contains both revisions of earlier chapters and chapters on new topics. Materials are organized around the idea that there are some best practices that the school psychologist should know about and be able to implement. The 69 chapters in this book were written by practitioners and by university faculty and focus upon practical ideas that can be implemented at the school level. A wide range of topics are presented in this monograph. A number of chapters focus on assessment issues, specifically the assessment of secondary-age students, students with severe/profound handicaps, bilingual students, and preschool-age children. Other assessment chapters concentrate on intellectual assessment, personality assessment, curriculum-based assessment, vocational assessment of students with disabilities, evaluation of educational programs, reevaluations, and kindergarten screening. There are also several chapters that focus on assisting students with a variety of disabilities, including learning disabilities, motor impairments, physical handicaps, hearing loss, and visual loss. Still other topics range from adaptive behavior to social skills training, cultural considerations, and counseling issues. (NB)

This monograph was written as a reference for practitioners who need an authoritative source of information on a wide variety of topics beyond the classroom and the child's own personal characteristics that influence school success. Included are 93 separate chapters, written by a diverse group of school psychologists and arranged alphabetically according to the following topics: access/visitation arrangements; adoption; aggressive behavior, allergies, anger; anorexia and bulimia; anxiety; assertiveness; biracial identity; birth order; cancer; career development; cheating; childcare; chronic illness; communicable diseases; competition; computer learning; corporal punishment; courts; creativity; delinquency; dependency; depression; different cultural backgrounds; divorce; drug abuse; encopresis; enuresis; family size; fear of nuclear threat; fears and phobias; firesetting; foster homes; giftedness; grades; grandparents; head injury; health promotion; hearing; homework; homosexuality; hospitalization; household chores; humor; hyperactivity; language development; learning styles; lying; maladaptive habits; masturbation; medication; moral responsibility; moving; nailbiting; nutrition; obesity; organization; peer relations; perception of time; physical abuse; play; prejudice; prematurity; psychiatric involvement; psychological abuse; reactions to death; reading; religion; responsibility; running away; school entry decisions; seizures; self-control; sexual abuse; sexual interest; shyness; siblings; siblings of the handicapped; single-parent homes; stealing; stepfamilies; stress; study skills; suicide; teasing; television; temper tantrums; temperament; thumbsucking; troubled families; vision; and working parents. (NB)