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Kalke, Thomas; Glanton, Ann; Cristalli, Maria – Child Welfare, 2007
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports model, first introduced into public schools, has been extended to alternative settings. This article highlights applying PBIS to day treatment and residential treatment education programs increasingly challenged to serve seriously emotionally disturbed youth whose risk factors have become more…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Risk, Intervention
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Meadowcroft, Pamela; And Others – Child Welfare, 1994
Noting that treatment foster care is a recent and expanding multisystem service, this article summarizes the empirical literature on treatment foster care and offers suggestions for future research directions. Results from program evaluations and experimental research suggest that treatment foster care is an effective alternative to residential…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Foster Care, Foster Children
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Whittaker, James K.; Pfeiffer, Steven I. – Child Welfare, 1994
Provides a selective review of relevant research on developmental psychopathology and its relevance for group care programming; a summary overview of major themes in residential care outcome research; and suggestions for future research on group care with implications for direct practice, service organization, and policy. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Children, Emotional Disturbances
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Silvern, Louise; Kaersvang, Lynn – Child Welfare, 1989
Hypothesizes that traumatization underlies the difficulties many children experience from witnessing their parents' marital violence/spousal abuse, and argues that intervention should be designed to counteract post-traumatic disorders. A case study highlights this discussion. (BB)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Case Studies, Emotional Disturbances, Family Violence
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Brown, Ralph A.; Hill, Betty Anne – Child Welfare, 1996
Describes the development and evaluation of a community-based program that provided an alternative to residential care by providing "wraparound" services to children with moderate to severe emotional difficulties. Program goals were preventing admission to residential care, maintaining children in the area, and assisting in early…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Community Programs, Emotional Disturbances, Foreign Countries
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Brickman, Arthur S.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1990
Describes the Supervised Independent Living Orientation Program (Michigan), which provides a transition into relatively unstructured independent living to adolescents and youths with a history of behavioral and emotional disturbances, including delinquency and psychiatric hospitalization. Discusses contracts used in the program. (BB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Behavior Disorders, Delinquency