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Yoke Y. Chen; Chuong H. Ting; Siti R. Ghazali; Ang A. Ling – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
With the increasing prevalence of mental health issues among children, there is a growing need to implement school-based preventive programs for emotional well-being in Malaysia. Super Skills for Life (SSL) is a transdiagnostic preventive program designed based on the cognitive-behavioral therapy concept to address emotional problems among…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Self Control
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Carl Sumi; Michelle Woodbridge; Elisa Garcia; Xin Wei; Patrick Thornton; Jennifer Nakamura – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: Students who do not acquire social and emotional skills are at risk for a range of negative outcomes that include emotional and behavioral disabilities, lower school achievement and school failure, peer rejection, substance abuse, and school dropout (Downer & Pianta, 2006; Riggs et al., 2006 Quinn & Poirier, 2004). Tools for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Emotional Learning, Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification
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Healy, Karyn L.; Grzazek, Olivia Y.; Sanders, Matthew R. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
This mixed methods study describes attributions for improvement following reductions in victimization for children who were bullied at school. It also tests hypotheses from attribution theory about attributions associated with improvements. The sample was a subset of families who participated in an RCT of a family cognitive-behavioral program to…
Descriptors: Victims, Bullying, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
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Skryabina, Elena; Taylor, Gordon; Stallard, Paul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2016
Background: Evaluations of school-based anxiety prevention programmes have reported improvements in psychological functioning although little is known about their effect upon educational outcomes. Methods: One thousand three hundred and sixty-two children from 40 primary schools in England took part in the randomised controlled trial, Preventing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Prevention, Elementary School Students, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Ulusoy, Yagmur; Duy, Baki – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a psycho-education program aimed at reducing learned helplessness and irrational beliefs of eight-grade elementary students. The study was an experimental study based on the pre-test-post-test model with control and placebo group. A total of 27 participants, 9 group members in each group,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Helplessness, Beliefs, Cognitive Restructuring
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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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Yeo, Lay See; Choi, Pui Meng – School Psychology International, 2011
The present study investigated the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) programme delivered by a school psychologist for children with behavioural difficulties in Singapore elementary school classrooms. It examined the impact of a 12-session, psychoeducational group intervention in helping misbehaving pupils to control their…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Effect Size, Foreign Countries, Counseling Techniques