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Rose, Chad A.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Behavioral Disorders, 2012
Bullying has been recognized as a dynamic process, where involvement is based on interactions between an individual and the social-ecological factors related to the individual's environment.While involvement in bullying is not exclusive to one population of students, evidence suggests that students with disabilities are overrepresented within the…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Bullying, Emotional Disturbances, Victims
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2007
This publication presents a collection of resources on violence prevention and safe schools. This document contains the following parts: (1) Introduction; (2) A Few Resource Aids; (3) Public Policy and Funding Opportunities; (4) More Resource Aids on Violence Prevention and Safe Schools; and (5) Concluding Comment. Individual sections contain…
Descriptors: Prevention, Public Policy, School Safety, Violence
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Kearney, Christopher A.; Albano, Anne Marie – Behavior Modification, 2004
School refusal behavior is a common problem seen by mental health professionals and by educators but little consensus is available as to its classification, assessment, and treatment. This study assessed 143 youth with primary school refusal behavior and their parents to examine diagnoses that are most commonly associated with proposed functions…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classification, Behavior Disorders, School Phobia
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Sigafoos, Jeff; O'Reilly, Mark; Ma, Chia Hui; Edrisinha, Chaturi; Cannella, Helen; Lancioni, Giulio E. – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2006
Background: Embedded instruction and discrete-trial training are both recommended for teaching children with autism, but there is little research available comparing the two. The present study compared embedded instruction with discrete-trial training for a 12-year-old boy with autism. Method: An initial functional analysis indicated that the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Autism, Self Destructive Behavior, Teaching Methods
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2005
A common request to Centers such as ours is for information about the prevalence and incidence of youngsters' problems. The intent of this report is to provide a synthesis of the best data and to clarify the limitations of what has been gathered so far. As you will see, available data continue to be quite limited. The synthesis reported here…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Psychological Patterns