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Vizard, Eileen – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The assessment of victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) is now a recognized aspect of clinical work for both CAMH and adult services. As juvenile perpetrators of CSA are responsible for a significant minority of the sexual assaults on other children, CAMH services are increasingly approached to assess these oversexualized younger…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Intervention
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Durand, V. Mark; Hieneman, Meme; Clarke, Shelley; Wang, Mo; Rinaldi, Melissa L. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2013
The present study was a multisite randomized clinical trial assessing the effects of adding a cognitive-behavioral intervention to positive behavior support (PBS). Fifty-four families who met the criteria of (a) having a child with a developmental disability, (b) whose child displayed serious challenging behavior (e.g., aggression, self-injury,…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Severe Disabilities
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Volz, Chloe; Heyman, Isobel – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
This article presents a previously unreported symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The young people reported describe a fear of turning into someone or something else or taking on unwanted characteristics. We have called this transformation obsession. The bizarre nature of this obsession had led to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatments in…
Descriptors: Patients, Young Adults, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Behavior Disorders
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Symes, Matthew D.; Remington, Bob; Brown, Tony; Hastings, Richard P. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
The variability in outcomes observed in home-based early intensive behavioral intervention for children with autism is likely in part to be the result of the quality of therapist performance. Therapist behavior in this context, however, is poorly understood. To achieve such an understanding, it will be necessary to specify how factors such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Child Behavior, Behavior Disorders
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Desbiens, Nadia; Gagne, Marie-Helene – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2007
Violent conduct by youths ranks among the types of inappropriate behavior generally originating in difficult family and social contexts. A proper understanding of the development of violent conduct must consider the situation taken as a whole. This article documents the results of a qualitative study which aimed to determine the psychosocial…
Descriptors: Profiles, Intervention, Educational Environment, Sexual Abuse
Reiss, Steven; Havercamp, Susan M. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1997
Discusses problems of using applied behavior analysis for individuals with mental retardation who have behavior disorders and presents a sensitivity model of motivation that stresses analysis in terms of aberrant environments, aberrant contingencies, and aberrant motivation. Describes implications for communication theory, assessment, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavior Theories, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Anderson, Lowell T.; Ernst, Monique – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Questionnaires completed by parents of 40 patients with Lesch-Nyhan disease provide information on developmental history, life course, management, medication, variability, and topography of self-injury. Analysis indicated that patients could not inhibit self-injury but could predict it and request restraints; self-injury was strongly related to…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Congenital Impairments
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Stock, Hayli R.; Andrews, Jac – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2004
This article reviews six studies using cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents. Four elements of research methods are considered: (1) characteristics of participants; (2) components of the CBT programs; (3) assessment measures; and (4) follow-up analysis. The studies were obtained…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Behavior Disorders, Adolescents, Program Effectiveness
Dodge, Kenneth A.; Dishion, Thomas J.; Lansford, Jennifer E. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2006
The problem is well known to every parent of a teenager, every high school teacher, every clinical practitioner, and every social policy maker: vulnerable adolescents risk becoming more deviant through association with deviant peers and peer groups. Deviant peer influences are among the most potent factors in the development of antisocial…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Program Effectiveness