Social Skills Improvement System (SSiS) Intervention Guide FM Gresham, Stephen N Elliott The new SSIS™ (Social Skills Improvement System) Intervention Guide is designed to help you plan and implement remediation strategies that are directly tied to problems identified by the SSIS Rating Scales. Because the SSIS Intervention Guide is highly.....read more

Speech-language therapy in a school context: Principles and practices Moonsamy S, Kathard H (Editors) The education system in South Africa is struggling to help learners to develop their full potential, particularly those from poor and rural communities. Research has shown that a lack of communication skills has become a major challenge and a.....read more

of the components of effective spelling instruction furnish the reader with detailed information they can put to immediate use: Instruction for good spellers Instruction for poor spellers Modeling and feedback Multisensory instruction Scope and sequence of spelling instruction Explicit practice with phonemic analysis Teaching.....read more

Standardisation Report of the WAIS-III for English Speaking South Africans N.C.W. Claassen, A.H. Krynauw, H. Paterson & M. Wagamathe In South Africa the need for an individual scale to assess the cognitive abilities of adults was previously served by the South African Wechsler-Bellevue Adult Intelligence Scale (SAWAIS) which has become.....read more

State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2™ (STAXI-2™) C.D. Spielberger, Ph.D., ABPP The STAXI-2™ provides easily administered and objectively scored measures of the experience, expression, and control of anger for adults and adolescents, ages 16 years and older. The STAXI-2 was developed to assess components of anger and anger expression.....read more

State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2™ Child and Adolescent (STAXI-2™ C/A) Thomas M. Brunner, PhD and Charles D. Spielberger, PhD   The STAXI-2 C/A is a 35-item self-report measure based on the adult version of the instrument, the STAXI-2. Like its parent version, the STAXI-2 C/A assesses both state and trait anger along with anger.....read more

Strategies for Surviving Bullying at Work Evelyn Field Private Practice No one goes to work to be humiliated, abused, ostracised, subjected to rumours, or assaulted. Yet this is the reality of a working day for many employees. Now you can do something about it. From the author of the highly successful introduction to workplace bullying "Bully.....read more

Stroop Color and Word Test C.J. Golden, Ph.D. and Shawna M. Freshwater Here is a standardised version of the Stroop Color and Word Test, which maximizes the benefits of this popular measure of cognitive processing. The Stroop is based on the observation that individuals can read words much faster than they can identify and name colors. The.....read more

Stroop Neuropsychological Screening Test (SNST) M.R. Trenerry, Ph.D., B.Crosson, Ph.D., .J DeBoe, Ph.D. & W.R. Leber, Ph.D. This standardised version of the Stroop consists of two parts. In the Color Task, the individual reads aloud a list of 112 color names in which no name is printed in its matching color. In the Color-Word Task, the.....read more

Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth™ (SAVRY™)   With its emphasis on dynamic factors, the SAVRY is designed to be useful in intervention planning and ongoing progress monitoring, including the formulation of clinical treatment plans, conditions of community supervision, or release/discharge The SAVRY is composed of 24 items in.....read more

Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology™ (SIMS™) G.P. Smith, Ph.D., Professional Manual by M.R. Widows, Ph.D., & G.P. Smith, Ph.D.   The SIMS is a 75-item, true/false screening instrument that assesses for both malingered psychopathology and neuropsychological symptoms. The instrument reduces clinician burden and increases.....read more

Structured-Objective Rorschach Test (SORT) S.A. Louw The SORT is an adaptation of J.B. Stone’s Structured-Objective Rorschach Test. By means of the SORT personality is evaluated for mental functioning, interest, responsiveness and temperament for use in, among others, guidance, selection and placement. The SORT was adapted and standardised.....read more

Study Toolbox: Workbooks and DVD Sets H Viljoen-Brand To purchase Study Toolbox workbooks and DVD sets and to use these to present study skills programmes to learners, you have to attent the following workshop:  Study Tools for Primary School and High School Leaners This two full day workshop is intended for registered professionals in the.....read more

Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) J.G. Cull, Ph.D. & W.S. Gill, Ph.D. The Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) gives clinicians a rapid, accurate, and empirically validated measure of suicide risk in adults and adolescents over 13 years of age. Quick and cost-effective, the SPS permits routine screening in any high-risk setting. The scale is composed.....read more

Supervision of counsellors in South Africa, The - travels in new territory Dunbar-Krige H, Fritz E 2006 The supervision of inexperienced counsellors and other helping professionals should be regarded as an integral, rather than a peripheral part of their initial and ongoing training. Furthermore, supervision can play an important role in the.....read more

Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) Aaron Smith. The Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) detects cognitive impairment in less than 5 minutes. This simple, economical test is an ideal way for busy clinicians to screen for organic cerebral dysfunction in both children (8 years and older) and adults. Brief, easy to administer, and much less.....read more