Cognitive Training for Young Children: Expanding the Counselor's Role
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Personnel and Guidance Journal
- Vol. 58 (6) , 416-420
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2164-4918.1980.tb00421.x
Abstract
This study encourages an expansion of the counselor's role through an evaluation of the efficacy of certain cognitive training procedures in teaching young children skills for interpersonal problem solving. Twenty‐seven students were blocked on school grades, balanced for sex, and randomly assigned to cognitive modeling and self‐instructions (CM‐SI), cognitive modeling alone (CM), or a control group. A two‐week training program focused on generating alternative solutions and consequences. Results of a delayed posttest indicate that the CM‐SI group generated a significantly greater number, variety, and proportion of relevant solutions than the control group. This article relates the findings to those in the literature and discusses interpretations. Highlighted are implications for practitioners concerned with preventive program development.Keywords
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