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Powell, Tara; Thompson, Sanna J. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: This article presents the Journey of Hope (JoH), a school-based intervention for children who have experienced a collective trauma such as a natural disaster. Through the use of group work, the JoH focuses on building coping skills and enhancing protective factors to help children recover. Method: This quasi-experimental research…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Intervention, Trauma, Natural Disasters
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Leflot, Geertje; van Lier, Pol A. C.; Onghena, Patrick; Colpin, Hilde – Journal of School Psychology, 2013
The role of children's on-task behavior in the prevention of aggressive behavior was assessed among 570 Dutch speaking children followed from second- to third-grade elementary school in Flanders, Belgium. A first objective was to investigate whether individual level variation of on-task behavior moderated the impact of a universal preventive…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Prevention, Program Effectiveness
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Bailey, Erin L.; van der Zwan, Rick; Phelan, Thomas W.; Brooks, Anna – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2012
This study served as a pilot evaluation of the efficacy of the 1-2-3 Magic Program (Phelan, 2003) as a brief parenting intervention for families with a school-aged child. Nine Australian families assigned to either a wait-listed control group (n = 4) or to one that received immediate intervention (n = 5), participated in a randomized controlled…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Parent Education, Child Rearing
Fry, Mary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A comparison between Child-Centered Group Play Counseling (CCGPC), a psychoeducational group and a non-therapeutic control group resulted in three of four hypotheses being supported. Participants included 79 second and third graders, with one fourth grader, from seven elementary schools. The children had behavioral and social skills difficulties…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence