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Gerhart, James I.; Ronan, George F.; Russ, Eric; Seymour, Bailey – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2013
Cognitive behavioral therapies have positive effects on anger and aggression; however, individuals differ in their response to treatment. The authors previously found that dynamic factors, such as increases in readiness to change, are associated with enhanced outcomes for violence reduction training. This study investigated how less dynamic…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Therapy, Personality
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Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Gatzke-Kopp, Lisa; Neuhaus, Emily; Chipman, Jane; Reid, M. Jamila; Webster-Stratton, Carolyn – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2013
Objective: To evaluate measures of cardiac activity and reactivity as prospective biomarkers of treatment response to an empirically supported behavioral intervention for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Method: Cardiac preejection period (PEP), an index of sympathetic-linked cardiac activity, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Metabolism, Behavior Problems
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Cole, Rachel L.; Treadwell, Susanne; Dosani, Sima; Frederickson, Norah – School Psychology International, 2013
This study evaluated the school-based short-term, cognitive-behavioral group anger management programme, "Learning How to Deal with our Angry Feelings" (Southampton Psychology Service, 2003). Thirteen groups of children aged 7- to 11-years-old were randomly allocated to two different cohorts: One cohort ("n"?=?35) first…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Intervention, Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification
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Bass, Christopher K.; Apsche, Jack A. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2013
A key component of Mode Deactivation Therapy (MDT) is the development of self-awareness and regulatory skills by the client with the aim of helping adolescent males with conduct disordered behaviors, including sexually inappropriate behaviors and emotional dysregulation. The goal includes altering specific behaviors to fall within socially…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Psychotherapy, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring
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Reese, Hannah E.; Timpano, Kiara R.; Siev, Jedidiah; Rowley, Theresa; Wilhelm, Sabine – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2010
Tic disorders have traditionally been conceptualized as neurobiological conditions and consequently within the purview of neurologists. In the last few decades, however, a number of psychosocial treatments have been developed and tested. To date, a behavioral treatment called Habit Reversal Training (HRT) has garnered the most empirical support as…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Therapy, Neurological Impairments, Web Sites
Crisalli, Linda – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
As directors of early learning programs, one deals with a myriad of issues on a daily basis. One of the more frustrating things that come up from time to time is biting. Biting is particularly problematic because it tends to elicit such a strong response from caregivers, parents, and other children. In this article, the author talks about biting…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Modification, Preschool Children
Jones, Alice P.; Viding, Essi – Online Submission, 2010
This paper presents a novel school-based intervention programme for children with chronic and severe emotional and behavioural difficulties. The main aim of the programme is to reduce conduct problems and to increase prosocial behaviours. The ultimate aim of such a programme is to help pupils with severe and chronic conduct problems back on track…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances
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Leventhal, Allan M. – Behavior Modification, 2008
Research into genetic, psychosocial, and cognitive explanations for depression (biopsychosocial models) provides support for the role of these variables in the etiology of depression. Regularly identified as basic to depression is loss, and the experience of loss has been found to be more influential than genetic factors in the causation of…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Antisocial Behavior, Positive Reinforcement
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Sloman, Glenn M.; Gallant, Jason; Storch, Eric A. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2007
School psychologists have expertise in the realm of school-based assessment and intervention for behavioral, educational, and psychological difficulties. Recent evidence indicates that many school psychologists lack evidenced based knowledge about assessment and treatment of pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Pediatric OCD is a…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Cognitive Restructuring, Antisocial Behavior, School Counseling
Larson, Jim; Lochman, John E. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This guide presents information and clinical tools to implement the Anger Coping Program, an empirically supported intervention for students in grades 3-6. Practitioners are taken step by step through setting up treatment groups, teaching vital skills for reducing aggression and disruptive behavior, and building strong partnerships with teachers…
Descriptors: Intervention, Females, Scaling, Coping
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McCloskey, Michael S.; Noblett, Kurtis L.; Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Gollan, Jackie K.; Coccaro, Emil F. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
No randomized clinical trials have evaluated the efficacy of psychotherapy for intermittent explosive disorder (IED). In the present study, the authors tested the efficacy of 12-week group and individual cognitive-behavioral therapies (adapted from J. L. Deffenbacher & M. McKay, 2000) by comparing them with a wait-list control in a randomized…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Effect Size, Psychotherapy, Depression (Psychology)
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Gorenstein, Ethan E.; Tager, Felice A.; Shapiro, Peter A.; Monk, Catherine; Sloan, Richard P. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2007
Although persistent anger is not represented in "DSM-IV" as a psychiatric disorder, it is nevertheless a significant clinical problem. Based on our experience with both research and clinic patients from a diverse urban population, and drawing on methods utilized by others, we have refined and elaborated several treatment strategies that appear…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Patients, Therapy, Psychological Patterns
Cancro, Robert – Exceptional Parent, 2007
This article describes six common types of anxiety disorders: (1) generalized anxiety disorder; (2) panic disorder; (3) obsessive-compulsive disorder; (4) post-traumatic stress disorder; (5) specific phobias; and (6) social phobia. Treatment of anxiety disorders have two components that can be offered separately or in combination. They are…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Norberg, Melissa M.; Wetterneck, Chad T.; Woods, Douglas W.; Conelea, Christine A. – Behavior Modification, 2007
Cognitive-behavioral models suggest that certain cognitions and beliefs are functionally related to hair pulling in persons with trichotillomania (TTM), but little empirical data have been collected to test such claims. This study assessed dysfunctional beliefs about appearance, shameful cognitions, and fear of negative evaluation and their…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Behavior Modification, Habit Formation, Behavior Disorders
Cole, Ted, Ed.; Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Visser, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Responding to disruptive or troubled pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) remains a highly topical issue. The challenges these children present relate to wider issues of continuing political concern: the perceived declining discipline in schools; school and social exclusion; the limits to inclusion for children with special…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mental Disorders
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