Innovations in School Mental Health Programs

Personality source traits of intermediate elementary students selected as emotionally handicapped and their nonhandicapped peers

“…Recent state and federal legislation has reinforced the need to detect learning and behavior handicaps in children that are potential impediments to academic and social development. The responsibility for this detection has generally been assigned to teachers because of their unique opportunity to observe many same-age children under similar conditions (Balow, 1966;Glavin & Quay, 1969;Morse, Finger, & Gilmae, 1968). Yet some doubt does exist about total reliance on teacher judgement (Bower, 1969;Lambert, 1967;Lambert & Bower, 1961).…”