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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
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Sullivan, Terri N.; Sutherland, Kevin S.; Farrell, Albert D.; Taylor, Katherine A. – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
The impact of a school-based violence prevention program, Second Step, on peer victimization and aggression, and emotion regulation was evaluated among 457 sixth graders. A cluster-randomized trial was conducted with classrooms randomly assigned to intervention (n = 14) or control (n = 14) conditions. A repeated measures analysis of covariance on…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Violence, Prevention
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Käll, Lina Bunketorp; Malmgren, Helge; Olsson, Erik; Lindén, Thomas; Nilsson, Michael – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Physical activity and structural differences in the hippocampus have been linked to educational outcome. We investigated whether a curriculum-based physical activity intervention correlates positively with children's academic achievement, psychological well-being, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), fitness, and structural…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Child Development
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Hadeed, Julie – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This article presents the continued effects of a home-based intervention programme on child development outcomes and parenting practices in Bahrain. The intervention is the "Mother-Child Home Education Programme" (MOCEP) which was implemented in Arabic in the Kingdom of Bahrain beginning in 2001. One hundred and sixty-seven poor,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Mothers, Disadvantaged