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55 Provider Service Suppositions
Present service delivery technologies and processes are not only ineffective, they are destructive.
56 Cognitive Psychology – A Synopsis
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS
• Cognition drives behavior
• Cognitive states can be modified
• Modified cognitive states modify behavior
• Behavior is reinforced by the ecosystem
• The individual and the environment are interactively influential
• The only behavior an individual person can control is his or her own
57 What Every School Psychologist Needs to Know
This article lays out principles for School Psychologist in assessing and serving children with problems in living.
58 Initial Inquiries
The cognitive issues of both the target child and the target child managers should be identified. Additionally, the assessor needs to specifically distinguish between trait-cognitions – relatively stable, generalized beliefs about self, others and future prospects – and state-cognitions momentary beliefs about future performance in specific situations. Finally, the assessor might want to consider the emotional context of significant learning experiences.
59 Emotional and Behavioral Services
A short dissertation on the nature of intervention with people with problems in living.
60 Schools & Social Competence
This article examines ways that schools can develop services and support for students with problems in living as a means of enhancing social competence.
61 Values
Values are held at three levels: as ideals which may never be reached but are what is what we hope for; as goals which we will work towards with the expectation that some day we will get there, and as commitments which means that every person is working on these values NOW! Human service staff people often do not hold values as commitments even though they are held as commitments by organizations. This is sometimes due to the vague manner in which they are articulated.
62 Labeling – What to Call a Child
Until recently, programs to train teachers have not moved in an evolutionary process. Training of teachers has progressed in most content areas but has been woefully derelict in the social and affective areas. To a large degree, this has been due to the inability of one set of disciplines (namely, psychology and psychiatry) to communicate effectively, in practical terms, an understanding of disturbed behavior to the related discipline of pedagogy.
63 Attachment, Belief And Acceptance
The mind and body communicate with each other through a series of sensations [qualia] that are not always expressible in words – a ‘gut’ feeling – a quirk.