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This article describes appropriate play therapy techniques for use with adolescents in a high school setting and provides specific case examples of the use of a variety of creative, expressive play therapy techniques that can help emotional development. The brief review of the literature on using play therapy techniques with children and adolescents included in the article provides supportfor the appropriateness of using creative techniques with adolescents and provides evidence of the need for current information on this topic.

School counselors are increasingly being called upon to participate in collaborative mental health service delivery teams. This article provides information based in the language of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; AmericanPsychiatric Association, 1994) needed to enhance collaboration with physicians and mental health care providers. Brief descriptions of the more common DSM-IV disorders of childhood and adolescence, along with their prevalence and common approaches to diagnosis and treatment, and suggestions for enhancing referral and establishing a collaborative relationship are provided.

In this exploratory study, differences in the content of moral dilemmas reported by early adolescents of divorcedversus intact families were investigated. Based on developmental theory and prior clinical observations, it was hypothesized that early adolescents from divorced families would report more family-related moral dilemmas. Nearly the entire population (n = 98) of fifth graders from a rural midwestern town were asked to describe a moral dilemma they were experiencing. Early adolescents of divorce reported more family-related moral dilemmas than did early adolescents of intact families. There were no differences by gender or educational level of parents. The results tentatively support the clinical observations of Wallerstein that children and adolescents of divorce face additional psychological tasks in development. The results appear to support the Kegan theory of development, which postulates that early adolescents of divorce may not advance as soon as other early adolescents from embeddedness in the family to embeddedness in the peer culture.