Recently added articles from The California School Psychologist:
Current Educational Practices in Classifying and Serving Students with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Jan 01, 2007; ... Current educational practices for classifying and serving students with mental health disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been associated with specific problems. These include the stigma of labeling, misalignment of school-based categories (e.g., E/BD, OHI) with clinical ...
Comprehensive Assessment of Emotional Disturbance: A Cross-Validation Approach
Jan 01, 2007; ... Assessing a student for emotional disturbance is a serious and complex task given the stigma of the label and the ambiguities of the federal definition. One way that school psychologists can be more confident in their assessment results is to cross validate data from different sources using the ...
Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) in Childhood: A Review of the Literature
Jan 01, 2007; ... This article examines recent literature related to the diagnosis of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) in childhood. First, the article discusses diagnostic criteria presented in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) ....
Functional Assessment-Based Interventions for Children At-Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Jan 01, 2007; ... Functional assessments were conducted to identify the variables maintaining disruptive behavior in eight, typically developing fifth-grade students enrolled in general education classrooms. Participants whose behavior was found to be functionally related to either task-avoidance or ...
The California School Psychologist Provides Valuable Information to Promote School Success Among Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Jan 01, 2007; ... This volume of The California School Psychologist provides valuable information to promote the success of students with emotional or behavioral disorders, as well as other informative articles. These articles provide valuable information for school psychologists and other professionals working ...
Mental Health Intervention Teams: A Collaborative Model to Promote Positive Behavioral Support for Youth with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Jan 01, 2007; ... This paper describes an innovative intervention model for promoting mental health and positive social adjustment for youth with emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD) in San Diego. More specifically, it highlights a unique partnership between several program divisions within the San Diego ...
The Use of Response to Intervention Practices for Behavior: An Examination of the Validity of a Screening Instrument
Jan 01, 2007; ... Behavioral difficulties of school-aged students are typically dealt with in a reactive, rather than preventative manner. This article examines a proactive approach, consistent with the Response-to-intervention model, using a screening measure designed to identify students at risk for behavior ...
Developing Emotional Competence in Preschoolers: A Review of Regulation Research and Recommendations for Practice
Jan 01, 2007; ... Regulation has been implicated in the development of emotional and behavioral disorders in childhood. Indeed, emotion dysregulation is one of the most common reasons families seek psychological services and behavioral supports. Interventions to support children with regulatory difficulties may ...
A Comparison of Classification Methods for Use in Predicting School-Based Outcomes
Jan 01, 2007; ... There is growing evidence that current classification methods are not consistent with current empirical knowledge of childhood psychopathology and the optimal way to classify school-age children remains controversial. The current study investigated three classification methods (categorical, ...
An Examination of the Changing Rates of Autism in Special Education
Jan 01, 2006; ... Using U.S. Department of Education data, the current study examined changes in the rates of special education eligibility classifications. This was done to determine if classification substitution might be an explanation for increases in the number of students being found eligible for special ...
Medication Treatment Outcomes for School-Aged Children Diagnosed with Autism
Jan 01, 2006; ... Recent studies on the prevalence of autism indicate that approximately 1 in 200 children meet diagnostic criteria, significantly greater than rates reported just a decade ago (Blanchard, Gurka, & Blackman, 2006). Concurrently, biomedical treatments including psychotropic medication have been ...
Bridging the Transition to Kindergarten: School Readiness Case Studies from California's First 5 Initiative
Jan 01, 2006; ... Recent advances in science have underscored how critical children's first five years of life are to their later success in school and life. It has also been recently recognized that early childhood interventions, particularly those that combine child-focused educational activities with ...
The Role of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule in the Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders in School and Community Settings
Jan 01, 2006; ... Autism diagnostic practices among school and clinical psychologists, particularly those using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), were examined using national survey results (N = 132). School and clinical psychologists were similar in following the Best Practice Guidelines for ...
The California School Psychologist Contributes Valuable Knowledge to Promote Student Success
Jan 01, 2006; ... This volume of The California School Psychologist includes several articles regarding "autism spectrum disorder" as well as other informative articles on topics ranging from California's First 5 Initiative, to school crisis teams, classroom sociograms, and projective assessments. These articles ...
Using Sociograms to Identify Social Status in the Classroom
Jan 01, 2006; ... Classroom climate, though difficult to define and assess, affects student learning especially in the elementary schools. Much of the current research focuses on the primary architect of classroom climate - the teacher. There is little doubt that teacher behaviors determine the overall climate of ...
School Crisis Teams within an Incident Command System
Jan 01, 2006; ... Despite the increasing attention given to the need for schools to be prepared to respond in a variety of crisis situations, there is a lack of information about how to coordinate with multiple agencies following a crisis. This article describes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (2004) ...
Projective Assessment and School Psychology: Contemporary Validity Issues and Implications for Practice
Jan 01, 2006; ... Projective techniques continue to be widely used by school psychologists despite frequent criticisms of their use. This article reviews contemporary validity issues in the use of projective techniques with children and adolescents, including incremental validity, treatment validity, and problems ...
Using Curriculum-Derived Progress Monitoring Data as Part of a Response-to-Intervention Strategy: A Case Study
Jan 01, 2006; ... The revissa Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) and subsequent Federal Regulations promote the use of alternative process of identifying students with specific learning disabilities based on how well a student responds to researched-based interventions. As these ...