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Gidlund, Ulrika – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
In Sweden, teachers in mainstream schools show frustration and insecurity about how to organise education for inclusion and diversity. This article contributes to the understanding of how they articulate their view of the advantages and disadvantages of including students with EBD in mainstream classes. To study teachers' understanding, an…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Inclusion, Accessibility (for Disabled), Focus Groups
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Gurdal, Sevtap; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Sorbring, Emma – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The present study examined Swedish mothers' and fathers' warmth towards their children in relation to their children's agency. It also examined the longitudinal relation between agency and children's externalising, internalising, and school achievement. Swedish children's mothers and fathers (N = 93) were interviewed at three time points (when…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mothers, Academic Achievement
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
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Severinsson, Susanne – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
This article presents analyses of documents from special schools in Sweden for students in the care of social welfare who have been assessed with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The aim is to use actor-network theory to analyse how blame and critique are handled in individual educational plans, and how responsibilities are produced…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Risk, Conflict, Special Schools
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Severinsson, Susanne; Nord, Catharina; Reimers, Eva – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
In Sweden and elsewhere, students permanently excluded from school are removed from their local environment, and sometimes their parental home, and moved to a rural residential care home. Thus "home" and "school" are clearly considered places where problems exist, but it is the young people themselves who are scrutinised and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Residential Programs, Residential Care, Environmental Influences
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Malmqvist, Johan – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2016
Sweden uses municipally run pupil referral units (PRUs) for students displaying emotional behavioural difficulties (EBD). This study investigates one Swedish municipality where transfers of students to PRUs were related to school practices favouring either inclusion or exclusion. A purposeful sampling procedure was used to select three elementary…
Descriptors: Inclusion, School Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Institutional Characteristics
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Lundqvist, Lars-Olov – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Behavior Problems Inventory (BPI-01) in a community population. The Swedish version of the BPI-01 was administered by interviewing care staff of all adults (n = 915) with administratively defined intellectual disabilities (IDs) living in Orebro…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Behavior Problems, Self Destructive Behavior
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Thornberg, Robert – Urban Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate multiprofessional collaboration as well as collaboration between professionals and challenging students and their parents in which the focus for these collaborations was on handling the challenging students' academic and social behavior. A grounded theory study of collaboration between a prereferral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Social Behavior, Focus Groups
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Holmberg, Kirsten; Hjern, Anders – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
The association of attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with bullying in the peer group in school was studied in an entire population of 577 fourth graders (10-year-olds) in one municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. The schoolchildren were screened for ADHD in a two-step procedure that included Conners' ratings of behavioural problems:…
Descriptors: Bullying, Hyperactivity, Adolescents, Peer Groups
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Benderix, Ylva; Nordstrom, Berit; Sivberg, Bengt – Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2006
Some children with autism and learning disabilities also have aberrant behaviours that are difficult to regulate and stressful for both the child and family members. This case study concerns experiences of 10 parents from five families before and 2 years after entrusting their 10- to 11-year-old child with autism to a group home. Hermeneutic…
Descriptors: Group Homes, Autism, Learning Disabilities, Case Studies