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Sampers, Jackie; Anderson, Kristin G.; Hartung, Cynthia M.; Scambler, Douglas J. – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 2001
A literature review of parent training programs on treating young children with behavioral problems indicates most programs used a social learning approach and that overall, the Eyberg and Webster-Stratton models held promise for direct service providers working with behavioral difficulties. Factors that influence a program's success are…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education
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Ishii-Jordan, Sharon R. – Behavioral Disorders, 2000
A survey of 692 regular and special educators found that teachers selected punishing and exclusionary interventions most often for Asian-American students and least often for Hispanic-American students. Special educators were more likely than regular educators to use behavior interventions. Implications for teacher training, teacher…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques
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Levy, Shari; Vaughn, Sharon – Behavioral Disorders, 2002
Six teachers of students with emotional/behavioral disorders were observed during reading instruction and interviewed. Three teachers provided some reading instruction that was documented as effective and designed to meet students' needs. Controlling student behavior through isolating students, providing extensive time for worksheets, and negative…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques
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Safran, Stephen P.; Johanson, George A.; Kalis, Donna – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1998
A survey of 44 students (grades 4-10) with behavior disorders, 14 special educators, and 15 teacher assistants evaluated the social validity of level systems (behavioral management interventions applied to shape students' social, emotional, and academic behaviors to pre-established levels). While students were the most negative group, they…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Elementary Secondary Education
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Donenberg, Geri R.; Schwartz, Rebecca Moss; Emerson, Erin; Wilson, Helen W.; Bryant, Fred B.; Coleman, Gloria – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
This study examined the utility of cognitive and behavioral constructs (AIDS information, motivation, and behavioral skills) in explaining sexual risk taking among 172 12-20-year-old ethnically diverse urban youths in outpatient psychiatric care. Structural equation modeling revealed only moderate support for the model, explaining low to moderate…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Structural Equation Models, Motivation, Psychopathology
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Guralnick, Michael J.; Hammond, Mary A.; Connor, Robert T. – Early Education and Development, 2006
It has been well established that young children with communication disorders (CD) have considerable difficulties interacting socially with peers in free-play settings. The central purpose of this study was to determine whether behavioral adaptations of children with CD could contribute to their peer interaction problems. To accomplish this, the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Interaction, Family Characteristics, Familiarity
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Lundgren, Lena M.; Amodeo, Maryann; Chassler, Deborah – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
This study examined the relationship among mental health symptoms, drug treatment use, and needle sharing in a sample of 507 injection drug users (IDUs). Mental health symptoms were measured through the ASI psychiatric scale. A logistic regression model identified that some of the ASI items were associated with needle sharing in an opposing…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Mental Health, Drug Abuse, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Ferney, Shannon L.; Marshall, Alison L. – Health Education Research, 2006
Information and communication technologies (particularly websites and e-mail) have the potential to deliver health behavior change programs to large numbers of adults at low cost. Controlled trials using these new media to promote physical activity have produced mixed results. User-centered development methods can assist in understanding the…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Focus Groups, Health Behavior
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Azar, Sandra T.; Nix, Robert L.; Makin-Byrd, Kerry N. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2005
Parents' childrearing behaviors are guided by schemas of the caregiving role, their functioning in that role, what children need in general, and what their own children are like in particular. Sometimes, however, parenting schemas can be maladaptive because they are too rigid or simple, involve inappropriate content, or are dominated by negative…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Child Rearing, Cognitive Psychology, Family Counseling
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Apsche, Jack A.; Bass, Christopher K. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2006
This paper is an outpatient replication of Apsche, Bass, Jennings and Siv (2005) work which examined the effectiveness of Mode Deactivation Therapy (MDT) on adolescent conduct disordered males in an inpatient therapeutic setting. This research compared the effectiveness of MDT and Treatment as Usual (TAU) as treatments on adolescents with conduct…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Aggression, Personality Traits, Adolescents
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Feeley, Kathlee M.; Jones, Emily A. – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2006
Children with Down syndrome are at an increased risk for engaging in challenging behaviour that may be part of a behavioural phenotype characteristic of Down syndrome. The methodology of applied behaviour analysis has been demonstrated effective with a wide range of challenging behaviours, across various disabilities. Applications to children with…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Down Syndrome, Program Effectiveness, Functional Behavioral Assessment
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Wells, Karen C.; Chi, Terry C.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Pfiffner, Linda; Nebel-Schwalm, Marie; Owens, Elizabeth B.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Abikoff, Howard B.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hoza, Betsy; Jensen, Peter S.; March, John; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Pelham, William E.; Severe, Joanne B.; Swanson, James; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wigal, Timothy – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The present study examined treatment outcomes for objectively measured parenting behavior in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Five hundred seventy-nine ethnically and socioeconomically diverse children with ADHD-combined type (ages 7.0-9.9 years) and their parent(s) were recruited …
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Outcomes of Treatment
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Didden, Robert; Korzilius, Hubert; van Oorsouw, Wietske; Sturmey, Peter – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2006
A meta-analytic study on effectiveness of behavioral and psychotherapeutic treatments for challenging behaviors in individuals with mild mental retardation is reported. Eighty articles were examined. For each comparison, several study variables and two effect sizes (percentage of nonoverlapping data--PND and percentage of zero data--PZD) were…
Descriptors: Mild Mental Retardation, Meta Analysis, Psychotherapy, Effect Size
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Groft-Jones, Melissa; Block, Martin E. – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2006
The purpose of this article is to summarize information presented in the prior articles into practical strategies physical educators can use when teaching children with autism. The authors divided the article into three areas: (1) structuring the environment; (2) accommodating communication challenges; and (3) preventing challenging behaviors.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Physical Education Teachers, Children
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O'Sullivan, Katherine R.; Russell, Heather – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
When interventions with youth are not successful, it is easy to point fingers of blame. Professionals may see parents as uninvolved while parents feel unsupported. Such polarization leads to adversarial relationships that undermine parenting, education, and treatment. This article considers common defensive reactions of parents and professionals…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Parent Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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