Children's literature often portrays characters with disabilities. These books may be used to promote awareness, understanding, and acceptance of those with disabilities. We provide guidelines for selecting high-quality literature and ideas for using characterizations of learning disabilities to teach students about themselves and others. Two sample lesson plans and a list of 30 recommended books are included.
Increasing numbers of students in U.S. schools are at greater risk of school failure because of social, economic, and family stress factors. Teachers can use literature as bibliotherapy for both children and adolescents to create a safe distance, allowing them to deal with sensitive issues related to these problems, as well as to teach social skills that can then help prevent school failure. In this article, the authors present a 10-step process for implementing bibliotherapy in the classroom and provide a sample of juvenile books that could be used in bibliotherapy.
influenced practice and research in career development by contributing a clear theory useful in organizing information about individuals and career alternatives and for understanding individuals' entry and persistence in occupational and other environments. His theory was repeatedly revised in response to evidence. As Holland's own career unfolded in a succession of organizational environments, he used the research opportunities these environments afforded to conduct large-sample tests of his ideas and assessment tools. J. L. Holland's (1970) Self-Directed Search is intended to be a career intervention, and Holland developed it and tested it as such. In outlining Holland's contributions to career counseling, a précis of his theory and some biographical context are provided.Holland's theory, assessment instruments, and intervention tools transformed the delivery of vocational assistance by counselors, schools, and impersonal mechanisms. This occurred because of the organizing power of his theory of persons and environments, the ease with which the theory can be communicated to counselors and clients, and the self-directed nature of the interventions and assessments he developed. This influence on counseling is due partly to the results of a long-term program of science in the pursuit of solutions to practical problems in vocational counseling and partly to the creativity and craft of an author devoted to helping clients understand themselves, their vocational alternatives, and their career situations.In this article, we first describe the assessment and intervention tools that Holland developed. We then relate how Holland used the opportunities in the environments he experienced over the course of his career to test and elaborate the theory over time. Finally, despite its influence on career counseling, many practitioners and researchers remain familiar only with certain parts of Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments. Therefore, in a final section, we provide an overall sketch of the theory to direct attention to portions of Holland's work that have practical applications in counseling, but that some counselors and researchers often overlook. Assessment and Intervention ToolsAfter an energetic decade of developing, testing, and revising a typology of vocational personalities and work environments (Holland, 1959), Holland used the theory as a template for the Self-Directed Search (SDS;Holland, 1970). Unlike his earlier inventory to assess vocational personality (Vocational Preference Inventory [VPI];Holland, 1958), Holland regarded the SDS as both an assessment instrument and a vocational intervention, sometimes referring to it
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