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Robison, Melinda A.; Mann, Tracie B.; Ingvarsson, Einar T. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
The Preschool Life Skills program is an intervention package designed to teach functional skills to prevent problem behavior in typically developing children. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effects of the instructional package (renamed "Life Skills") with children with developmental disabilities. The program…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Friendship
Knol, Linda L.; Myers, Harriet H.; Black, Sheila; Robinson, Darlene; Awololo, Yawah; Clark, Debra; Parker, Carson L.; Douglas, Joy W.; Higginbotham, John C. – American Journal of Health Education, 2016
Background: Effective childhood obesity prevention programs for preschool children are limited in number and focus on changes in the child care environment rather than the home environment. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to develop and test the feasibility of a home environment obesity prevention program that incorporates mindful eating…
Descriptors: Program Development, Obesity, Prevention, Preschool Education
Skouteris, Helen; Hill, Briony; McCabe, Marita; Swinburn, Boyd; Sacher, Paul; Chadwick, Paul – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The aim of this paper was to compare the recruitment strategies of two recent studies that focused on the parental influences on childhood obesity during the preschool years. The first study was a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of the Mind, Exercise, Nutrition?…?Do It! 2-4 obesity prevention programme and the second was a longitudinal cohort…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Obesity, Prevention, At Risk Persons
Alba, Guadalupe; Justicia-Arraez, Ana; Pichardo, M. Carmen; Justicia-Justicia, Fernando – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2013
Behavior problems are often observed in classrooms. The age at which problems appears is increasingly younger, and there are no interventions that ensure a reduction in such behavior problems among school age children. Research and previous evidence show the importance of social competence in this kind of prevention. Working with preschool and…
Descriptors: Prevention, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children
Children Now, 2014
The birth of a child can be a simultaneously joyous and challenging time for families. Virtually all parents will struggle with the enormous physical and emotional demands of parenting a very young child, but for too many California families those challenges are additionally compounded by poverty, housing instability, lack of social support, or…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Poverty, Housing, Child Rearing
Olsen, Heather; Hudson, Susan D.; Thompson, Donna – American Journal of Health Education, 2010
Preventing injuries to children, especially debilitating and life threatening, requires an awareness of where these types of injuries occur during the school days. This review examines falls from playground equipment, events that have been identified as the leading causes of nonfatal unintentional injuries for children. Thus, the issue of…
Descriptors: Play, Prevention, Injuries, Playgrounds
Ettridge, Kerry A.; Bowden, Jacqueline A.; Rayner, Joanne M.; Wilson, Carlene J. – Health Education Research, 2011
Limiting exposure to sunlight during childhood can significantly reduce the risk of skin cancer. This was the first national study to assess the sun protection policies and practices of early childhood services across Australia. It also examined the key predictors of services' sun protection practices. In 2007, 1017 respondents completed a…
Descriptors: Cancer, Caregivers, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Kaufman, Joy S.; Ortega, Sandra; Schewe, Paul A.; Kracke, Kristen – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The Safe Start demonstration projects, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the first phase of the Safe Start initiative, are primarily designed to influence change at the systems or macrolevels to reduce the incidence of and impact of exposure to violence for children aged birth to 6 years; direct…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Demonstration Programs, Young Children, Individual Characteristics
Leff, Stephen S.; Waasdorp, Tracy Evian; Crick, Nicki R. – School Psychology Review, 2010
Research suggests that involvement in relational aggression is associated with serious adjustment problems, including concurrent and future social maladjustment (e.g., problematic friendships; rejection), internalizing problems (e.g., depressive symptoms), and school avoidance. Despite the burgeoning literature focusing on the harmful and damaging…
Descriptors: Intervention, Aggression, Prevention, School Psychologists
Bywater, Tracey Jane; Hutchings, Judith Mary; Gridley, Nicole; Jones, Karen – Child Care in Practice, 2011
Parenting programmes are effective interventions for preventing and treating conduct problems in young children. Up to 20% of children in disadvantaged areas have conduct disorder. Recent government initiatives such as targeting early years services to designated disadvantaged Flying Start areas in Wales have resulted in increased nursery-care…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intervention, Feasibility Studies, Disadvantaged
Winter, Suzanne M.; Sass, Daniel A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
The collision of the childhood obesity epidemic with pressure to achieve high academic standards is of serious concern in the United States. Growing numbers of low-income, minority children face double jeopardy as alarming obesity rates further widen existing achievement gaps. Health and education disparities persist when children enter…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, School Readiness, Reading Readiness