Use of Videocassette Parent Interviews in Teaching Developmental Psychology

Gifted Children and Divorce: A Study of the Literature on the Incidence of Divorce in Families with Gifted Children

“…Personal experiences with gifted children of divorce and anecdotes related by friends, led the authors to search ERIC and Psychlit data bases for 1982-1991. We were startled that only five articles matched our search with gifted and divorce as descriptors; of these, three were research-related (Falk, 1987a;Falk, 1987b;DeVaul s: Davis, 1988), one expert opinion (Arent, 1985), and one related only peripherally to the topic (Harper &. Silvestro, 1982).…”

Teaching Consultant Interview Skills: Measuring Student Progress

“…Some journal articles on methods indirectly or directly related to the training of consultants have also appeared recently. For example, Harper and Silvestro (1983) reported using videocassette parent interviews to teach child development themes to undergraduate and graduate students. In an even more directly related study, Ehly, Dustin, and Bratton (1983) reported significant interview behavior gains from pretest to posttest for a group of graduate students enrolled in a graduate course in consultation.…”