The first paper provides an overview of how subsequent papers promote students' social and academic success through school-based group interventions. This is followed by a paper that presents an overview of issues special services providers should consider as they review options for service. It reviews an array of factors that affect the planning and implementation of group interventions and identifies alternatives for group interventions and guidelines for selecting, implementing, and evaluating options. A paper on school-based support groups for children of divorce describes a time-limited, support-group intervention. The model is based on the view that children of divorce often encounter specific divorce-engendered stresses as the divorce process unfolds over time. Another paper profiles support groups for bereaved children. Grief support groups are suggested as a means for grieving children to share their feelings, discover that they are not alone, and move constructively through the grief process. Remaining papers focus on groups for children with disruptive behavioral disorders, the structuring of positive peer influence, systematic approaches to social skills training, classroom-based group interventions, and multicultural issues in the delivery of group interventions. Chapter references