Objectives. To examine stress and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among third-year doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) students. Methods. Stress and HRQOL were determined using Perceived Stress and SF-12 HRQOL survey instruments. A questionnaire was administered to determine factors students believed produced and eliminated stress. Results. Eighty percent of third-year students participated (n5109) in this pilot study. Mental HRQOL scores were significantly below US mean score for individuals aged 20-34 years (p,0.0001). As stress increased, mental HRQOL decreased and a significant negative correlation was found between the 2 measures (p,0.001). Family and relationships, examinations and scheduling, outside-of-class assignments, and finances were the most common stress triggers reported by students, while exercising, spending time with friends/family, sleeping, watching TV, and drinking alcohol were the most commonly reported stress-alleviating activities. Conclusion. Third-year PharmD students reported relatively high levels of stress and low mental HRQOL. Students employed mostly positive, but some negative, lifestyle choices to alleviate stress. Further investigation into the effectiveness of students' coping strategies is needed.

Child-senior relationship training (CSRT) is an adaptation of child-parent relationship therapy (CPRT), a highly effective intervention for children, where trained senior citizen volunteers provide free play sessions for children whose parents are unable or unwilling to participate in CPRT. This study explored the effects of CSRT on kindergarten children and the senior volunteers' effectiveness with children following training. The researchers propose CSRT provides benefits to busy school counselors by closing the gap between the high number of students needing services and the historically low number of providers. Although CPRT has been shown to be more effective when used with parents, many times parent involvement is not feasible. CPRT has been successfully adapted for use with other populations such as teachers, aides, high school students, and fifth-grade students. School counselors can potentially provide services to many children by training and supervising seniors for 1.5 hr per week. In this study, researchers used findings from a pilot study to improve delivery of CSRT. Senior citizens were trained to provide 30-min play sessions each week to kindergarten children. Children's behaviors were measured by the Teacher Report Form. Although not considered therapy, results indicate seniors were capable of providing a therapeutic relationship that is hypothesized to assist children in improving behavioral and social-emotional problems. Four single-case studies are presented to examine the effects of CSRT. Keywords: child-parent relationship therapy, child-senior relationship training, play therapy, play therapy in schools, senior citizens as therapeutic agents Children in schools today face issues far beyond academic concerns. Although school counselors are expected to prioritize academic concerns for service delivery, social-emotional issues certainly impact a student's academic work. With high student-to-counselor ratios, school counselors have very little time to address life-changing concerns such as abuse, neglect, domestic violence, homelessness, grief, loss, and mental illness. Abdelnoor and Hollins (2004) examined how death of a family member affected children and found a decrease in school achievement and an increase in anxiety among those who had lost parents. According to Glaze and Maruschak (2008), over half of all prisoners in the United States are parents of minor children. The Department of Health and Human Services (2012) reported over half a million indicated cases of abuse and neglect annually. The majority of those cases involve children under the age of 10.

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