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 ...