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Show Moab Meeting This Week to Attract Slate Pupil Personnel Directors Pupil personnel directors direct-ors from throughout Utah will meet April 22 and 23 tat Grand County Junior High School, Moab, where they will study the use of a system approach to planning on the school district level. The workshop will help directors in vital planning skills ' so that the activities activi-ties under their direction will actually bring changes chang-es in student behavior, according ac-cording to Dr. H. Reese Anderson, coordinator of pupil services, for the Utah State Board of Education, Edu-cation, who is directing the event. "Until a student understands under-stands himself and has a positive self concept, it's unrealistic to expect any (changes in behavior for the better," Dr. Anderson, said. "This workshop should help pupil personnel person-nel directors plan programs pro-grams for their students in this vital area." These directors are responsibly for school counselors, social soc-ial workers, psychologists and school nurses. Another problem to be tackled by ' the workshop partieiptnas is methods of working with the newly organized Joint Education Educa-tion - Mental Health Committee, Com-mittee, set up in November, Novem-ber, by the State Board of lEducation and the State Board of Mental Health. This group is attempting to discover ways for improving im-proving mental health services to children, a problem which will also be studied by the Legislative Council, an arm of the Utah State Legislature. Dr. Don Richards and Dr. Bruce Wainwright, experts ex-perts in educational planning plan-ning and evaluation, will lead discussions at the meeting. |