Allen K. Hess

Critical Issues in Undergraduate Training in Various Community Settings.

Teachers planning undergraduate field experience programs will find here some problems, as well as some merits, requiring consideration.

Book Review: On the Distinction Between Perception and Prediction: PREDICTING DANGEROUSNESS. By Stephen J. Pfohl Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Co. 1978. Pp. 250.

In 1974, the Federal District Court ordered that each of the 700 patients confined to Lima State Hospital (Ohio’s maximum security hospital) be reevaluated. This increasingly common occurrence resulted in the formation of twelve interdisciplinary teams, each including a psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, and a psychiatric social worker, to address three questions: (a) is the patient mentally ill or retarded; (b) is he dangerous to himself or others; and (c) is continued hospital place-

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The relationship of the WISC-R Arithmetic and WRAT Arithmetic scales to grades was determined for a sample of 8 female and 14 male juvenile delinquents. The WISC-R correlated .538 with grades and .302 with the WRAT, while the WRAT correlated .289 with grades. The WISC-R also correlated .508 with sex (females scoring higher). While WRAT Arithmetic is questioned as an indicator of academic achievement, WISC-R accounts for 29% of grades variance and may be a useful correlate.

The WISC-R and WRAT as indicators of arithmetic achievement in juvenile delinquents.

Criminal Behaviour: A Psychological Analysis is a behaviorally oriented academic, experimental psychologist’s synthesis of theoretical and empirical literature regarding criminal behavior. In this review, I will first describe the chapters and conclude by placing the book in the larger context of the development of criminal justice psychology as a professional field. In doing so, I am measuring it against some broad and exacting criteria. Since Criminal Behaviour is likely to be used in ways Feldman may not have intended (e.g., as a text book), I believe it is reasonable to review the book in this broader perspective.

Book Review: Criminal Behavior-as One Behaviorist Views It

Behaviorism has entered a phase in the growth of paradigms where it is becoming the dominant system by which the social community, both scientific and lay, conceptualize social phenomena. While Ullmann and Krasner’s Case Studies in Behavior Modification translated behaviorism into clinical applications for the scientific and academic-clinical community, Krumboltz and Thoreson’s Counseling Methods (a) applies behavioral approaches to a stunning range of problems and clients, (b) broadens the range of techniques subsumed in the behavioral framework (including the use of Gestalt, phenomenological, ecological, communicational, and other approaches), (c) provides a taxonomic basis for defining the problem and the appropriate intervention, and (d) extends the settings and treatment agents amenable to behavioral change methods. Counseling Methods pre-