Increasing research is promoting the need for innovative, holistic, and sustainable ways to foster resiliency and recovery in war-affected children. The Shropshire Music Foundation seeks to promote a culture of peace and unity, as well as development and recovery for children living in postconflict Kosovo. The current study evaluated the effectiveness of this program, by independent investigators, in promoting resiliency and diminishing distress in program participants. The study evaluated groups of students with no program participation, new program participants, 12 months of participation, and program graduates (N ϭ 74). Overall, children who participated in the program at least 1 year evidenced fewer affective and cognitive disturbances than children recently enrolled. Furthermore, the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomology and conduct problems was mediated by attention problems.

Internship applicants {N = 601) recruited from Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology member PhD programs completed surveys before and after Match Day about their academic achievements and clinical training, personality, and match outcome characteristics. Results revealed strong evidence that the single best predictor of matching among these students is the number of interview offers attained. A low number of attained interviews (6 or fewer) forecasts increased likelihood of going unmatched. Entering the match a second or more time is also associated with not matching. Additional analyses indicated intervention and assessment hours significantly interact to impact number of interview invitations, suggesting that monitoring the accrual of proportionate clinical hours (rather than focusing simply on attaining more client contact hours) is important throughout preinternship training in this sample. Although associated with only a small amount of variance, facets of personality do appear to be significantly associated with the number interview offers obtained and internship match outcomes. Finally, a significant interaction between science, as indicated by research achievements, and practice, as indicated by proportionate clinical hours, was also observed. This represents the first empirical demonstration of the Boulder model's philosophical premise regarding the training of clinical psychologists. Specific mentoring suggestions are offered, as well as recommendations for future directions in training, policy, and research.

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Recent efforts have contributed to significant advances in the detection of malingered performances in adults during cognitive assessment. However, children's ability to purposefully underperform has received relatively little attention. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine children's performances on common intellectual measures, as well as two symptom validity measures: the Test of Memory Malingering and the Dot-Counting Test. This was accomplished through the administration of measures to children ages 6 to 12 years old in randomly assigned full-effort (control) and poor-effort (treatment) conditions. Prior to randomization, children's general intellectual functioning (i.e., IQ) was estimated via administration of the Kaufman Brief Intellectual Battery-Second Edition (KBIT-2). Multivariate analyses revealed that the conditions significantly differed on some but not all administered measures. Specifically, children's estimated IQ in the treatment condition significantly differed from the full-effort IQ initially obtained from the same children on the KBIT-2, as well as from the IQs obtained in the full-effort control condition. These findings suggest that children are fully capable of willfully underperforming during cognitive testing; however, consistent with prior investigations, some measures evidence greater sensitivity than others in evaluating effort.