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This handbook provides the reader with the applied knowledge essential for initiating, building, and continuing community service programs for the mentally retarded. Applied to specific populations, and to both urban and rural settings, the model also offers a blueprint for establishing successful service systems.
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In this book, Beeman N. Phillips describes the forces shaping research and practice in school psychology, from demographic shifts in school populations to the encroachment of the federal government and the legal system on schools. And he demonstrates why the profession must make critical changes to effectively meet these challenges.

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This important annual series details the most recent research, developments, and practical applications in one of contemporary psychology's most active areas. It samples diverse areas pertinent to the practice of school psychology; presents evaluations of relevant work in other psychological fields including clinical, counseling, developmental, learning, and educational psychology; and reaches beyond the common domain of psychology and education to encompass the contributions of psychiatry, social work, rehabilitation, law, and medicine.
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For the past 20 years, rational-emotive therapy (RET) has been employed by consultants to help bring about changes not only in the way parents and teachers manage mental health and educational problems of school-age children, but also within organizations and families. This is the first book devoted exclusively to the applications of RET in consultation.

For the first time, international experts reveal the ways that RET can be applied at different levels of consultation -- client-centered, consultee-centered, systemic-centered -- to help identify and overcome obstacles to effective consultation. This volume reveals the missing link to effective consultation, namely, the emotional problems consultees bring with them to the practical problems with which they are faced. Rational-emotive consultation methods are ideally suited to help give consultees empowerment over their emotional problems. In addition, RET is an ideal adjunct to be included along with behavioral and organizational consultation methods already in use.

Written largely for school psychologists and consultants who work in educational and mental health settings, this book demonstrates the variety of ways that RET can be used to conduct in-service and professional/personal development programs for teachers, parents, school administrators and other professional groups. It is also a unique resource for practitioners working with the emotional, behavioral and learning problems of school-age children, and looking for new and effective ways of incorporating caregivers in the treatment of these children.
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This first historical reference book dealing with school psychology covers over 450 terms, concepts, important people and organizations, issues, events, and other topics of note. This is a user-friendly encyclopedia for gathering information about the field of school psychology quickly and points to sources for further study. It will be particularly useful in defining terms that are used frequently and for those seeking both historical and contemporary information. A large team of experts has developed this major new work which is intended for college and university libraries, program directors in school psychology, students at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and school psychologists. It will also be helpful to guidance counselors, social workers, health service providers in psychology, and medical libraries. ... Read more

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School Psychology is a field that applies principles of clinical psychology and educational psychology to the diagnosis and treatment of children's and adolescents' behavioural and learning problems. School psychologists are educated in psychology, education, child and adolescent development, child and adolescent psychopathology, learning theories, family and parenting practices, and personality theories. They are knowledgeable about effective instruction and effective schools. They are trained to carry out psychological and psychoeducational assessment, psychotherapy, and consultation, and in the ethical, legal and administrative codes of the profession. ... Read more

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School psychology, according to the contributors of this unique volume, is an approach to problem solving, not simply a setting- specific profession. Following Lightner Witmer's original notion, the editors lay a foundation for the field of school psychology in "nontraditional" settings.

Such nontraditional practice stems from data showing that school psychologists display skills and abilities that can be applied successfully to a variety of client needs in numerous settings. This special book directly affects both the practicing school psychologist and those in training, as well as professionals and students in clinical child psychology, counseling, and educational psychology.
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Since the first edition of this book appeared over a decade ago, school psychology research, knowledge and skills have expanded and yet the field continues to face challenges. The book’s model continues to be taught and to impact on professional development in school systems in many countries. The aim of this substantially revised and expanded edition is to strengthen service delivery models by incorporating primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, for the benefit of students, parents, educators, and present and future school psychologists. Major questions addressed include:

• What can school psychologists do to enhance students’ learning and psychosocial adaptation?

• Why is it advisable to adopt a consultative model of service in education?

• How can school psychologists assist educators in planning effective school-based programs and services?

• How can school psychologists support the adaptation of multicultural school communities?

The book provides practical assistance to school psychologists who wish to free themselves from the narrow constraints of testing, assists them in identifying the models, skills, and tools they need for fostering a consultative approach, and provides them with useful information for implementation. ... Read more

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In times of great change and chaos, we flail against the suffering and difficulties in our lives. In This Divine Classroom: Earth School and the Psychology of the Soul, psychotherapist, Marcia Beachy, develops the broader view that planet Earth is a classroom for human evolution. Through past life regression (PLR) research with her clients, Marcia postulates that this "outpost" on the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy is providing unprecedented soul maturation opportunities as momentous choices are being made.Incorporating in-depth PLR work and material from the interlife (afterlife) perspective, Marcia skillfully unravels some of the mysteries of the soul's choices and what it hopes to learn from the challenges and joys of life. Fascinating stories unfold over eons of time depicting the soul's long journey of evolution. The reader begins to gather a sense of the soul's psychology, often shockingly different than that of our personality self. In addition, Marcia gently challenges us to a reinterpretation of our reality and to courageously see the new Earth School curriculum before us. ... Read more

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This Is a Guiltless Path
This book illustrates beautifully the polarities of the human experience, about which we attempt to reconcile ourselves. The author does not attempt to hide behind her words, but rather, to illuminate the divine in our humanity. To read this book is to glimpse inside the soul of Marcia Beachy. Her psychology of the soul includes story-telling and poetry, the places where the soul resides, and yet, is also the product of a clear and uncluttered mind. There is not a single word misspoken, unnecessary, or without purpose. This book feels, therefore, like a "fullness" that can't be explained by any other word.

As a grief counselor, I never dismiss anyone's sense of experience or that person's interpretation of what such experiences mean to that person. I've heard too many stories to discount anything, no matter how strange such perceptions may seem. The reader is therefore encouraged to keep an open mind to what this book reflects about our multiple lives (of many layers) and what the lessons learned are all about. "Stay tuned to your own inner sense as you let yourself contemplate your possible past lives. Much information sits delicately on our edges."

The book deals with the concept of regression therapy, with an introduction to the concept in various religious traditions, a middle that includes case histories of three different people, and conclusions and summaries concerning lessons learned. This revelation came to the author: "This is a divine classroom and this is a guiltless path." Ultimately, this is a book about healing on an individual and cosmic level, with the understanding that to truly be who we are, we need to acknowledge the dark as well as the light within ourselves. "We grow as we learn not to polarize our thinking and sense that at some level grace abides in all things."

When we are in the midst of our grief and loss, it is not always easy to remember the reason for our pain, or that "Beautiful sunsets are created from the `difficulties' of dust and clouds." But in the end, this book brings us "home," to our authentic selves, our spiritual, divine selves, and the fearless hope and triumph that no devastation or death can ever destroy.
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Since its development in the late seventies, the author's Semi-Automated Full Battery system of using word processor and codified statements to write psychological test reports and do psychological test analysis has been expanded considerably. This volume reviews this material, unique in that it is a carefully codified actuarial system for psychological test interpretation coupled with ready-to-go narrative statements that can be blended into psychological test reports. The Full Battery Codebook is a collection of works that originated from the Semi-Automated Full Battery and has been expanded to include not only additional tests, but stepped-down versions of computer programs. ... Read more

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The provision of early childhood educational and psychological services has been an area of considerable growth over the past 25 years. As a result of far-reaching trends in both public policy and clinical practices, there is a growing need for professionals appropriately trained to address the assessment and intervention issues involved in early childhood programming. To take advantage of current opportunities for extending their role and to meet the challenge of early childhood service delivery, school psychologists must expand their professional skills and broaden their knowledge base.

With the publication of this volume, the Advances in School Psychology Series changes to adopt a specific thematic focus and include reviews directly related to a common theme. This volume studies the subject of early childhood education and treatment directions. The chapters address a range of specific topics and research representing advances in the field of early childhood services for school psychology -- allowing school psychologists to examine and integrate current information from multiple perspectives -- educational and sociological as well as psychological. Topics that collectively represent important developments for school psychology include current early childhood education program models, preschool handicapped children, parental involvement, peers and socialization, stress and coping, and computers and young children. To date, more efforts have been directed toward devising and validating instruments that predict failure or success among preschoolers than on designing and evaluating approaches for treating them. Although assessment is critical for meeting individual needs, the primary emphasis of this volume is on fostering cognitive, academic, social, and emotional growth of young children.
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Designed as a research-based yet matter-of-fact guide for beginning and future scientist-practitioners, A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology skillfully augments the reader’s training, supervision, and experience by providing a framework for honing essential skills in the field. This reader-friendly, evidence-based text encourages the continuing development of expertise in communication and collaborative skills, diversity awareness, technical knowledge, and other domains critical to building and maintaining an ethical, meaningful practice.

Each chapter in this must-have volume examines a core area of expertise in depth, and provides checklists (linked to competencies set out in NASP’s Blueprint III) and the Development and Enhancement of Competencies Assessment Form are included to enable readers to gain a more complete understanding of their professional strengths and needs.

The skill sets covered include:

• Developing cross-cultural competencies.
• Evaluating students with emotional and behavioral problems.
• Assessing student skills using a variety of approaches.
• Preventing and intervening in crisis situations.
• Consulting with families, colleagues, and the community.
• Facilitating mental health services in the school setting.

A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology provides an invaluable set of professional development tools for new practitioners and graduate students in school psychology.

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Like the well-received first edition, this thoroughly revised volume presents a practical guide to consultation in schools, including the various approaches (such as behavioral and advocacy), implementation issues, skills, obstacles to practice, transcripts, and ethical issues.

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With this important work, written around current behavioralpsychology research and practice as it applies to school-age children,the authors address both experimental and applied issues in theassessments and interventions used with this population. Among the issues examined are the legal, bureaucratic, andpsychological complications involving the newly mandated FunctionalAssessment law. Included with this book is a software package designedspecifically to provide tools to conduct and calculate outcomes forfunctional assessment procedures on notebook computers. ... Read more