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Issues of Social Validation in Research on Serving Individuals with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders.
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Lloyd, John Wills; Heubusch, Joanne D. – Behavioral Disorders, 1996
Addresses methods of assessing social validity in interventions with individuals having behavioral disorders. Discusses three areas: (1) specific behavioral goals; (2) the social appropriateness of the procedures; and (3) the social importance of the outcomes. Issues of validity and utility are also raised. The paper concludes that application of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Intervention
Increasing and Maintaining Withdrawn Preschoolers' Peer Interactions: Effects of Double Prompting and Booster Session Procedures.
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Lindeman, David P.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1993
The combined effects of double-prompting and booster session procedures on the social behavior of four socially withdrawn preschool children were investigated. Results indicated that the intervention procedures increased subjects' initiations in organizing play, sharing, and assisting and that there were collateral increases in subjects'…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention
A Critical Analysis of Functional Assessment: Issues for Researchers and Practitioners.
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Gable, Robert A. – Behavioral Disorders, 1996
Addresses the use of functional assessment in making treatment decisions with students having emotional/behavioral disorders. Discussion covers indirect and direct measures of the relationship between the target behavior and variables maintaining the behavior. Strategies for selecting and verifying hypothesis-driven treatment decisions are…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
The First Step to Success Program: An Analysis of Outcomes with Identical Twins across Multiple Baselines.
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Golly, Annemieke; Sprague, Jeffrey; Walker, Hill; Beard, Kelli; Gorham, Ginger – Behavioral Disorders, 2000
Two studies evaluated effects of First Step to Success, a collaborative home and school early intervention program designed for kindergartners who show signs of emerging antisocial behavior. Two sets of 5-year-old male twins were the subjects of the 4-year studies. Exposure to the First Step program produced powerful behavior changes that were…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies
The Use of a Warning Procedure to Signal a More Intrusive Timeout Contingency.
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Twyman, Janet S.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1994
The effects of a warning procedure signaling exclusionary timeout as a consequence for inappropriate behavior during contingent observation timeout was evaluated with nine elementary students having emotional and behavioral disorders. The use of warnings was associated with a decrease in appropriate contingent observation timeout behaviors,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management
The Impact of a Wilderness Experience on the Social Interactions and Social Expectations of Behaviorally Disordered Adolescents.
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Sachs, John J.; Miller, Sidney R. – Behavioral Disorders, 1992
The impact of a modified wilderness program on the cooperative and aggressive behaviors of seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents was evaluated in the context of self-efficacy theory. Results indicated that participating adolescents showed a significant increase in cooperative behaviors and that direct observation procedures were more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventure Education, Aggression, Behavior Change