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Beasley, Jordon J. – Professional School Counseling, 2019
An elementary school counseling department used data-informed practices in an effort to provide more effective school counseling services. This article provides a summary and evaluation of a girls' relational aggression small group in an elementary setting. Results indicated that integrating friendship, conflict resolution, and self-affirmation…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Intervention, School Counselors
Van Wert, Hannah; McCabe, Paul C. – Communique, 2022
Conduct disorder (CD) is a pattern of repeated aggression toward others, disregard for the rights of others, and behaviors that violate major social norms at home, in school, and even in society at large (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). Falling under the umbrella of "conduct problems" along with oppositional defiant…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Females, Aggression, Clinical Diagnosis
Solórzano, Daniel G.; Pérez Huber, Lindsay – Teachers College Press, 2020
Drawing from over 2 decades of research, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a systemic form of everyday racism commonly experienced by People of Color. Racial microaggressions are layered and cumulative assaults, often carried out in subtle and unconscious ways, which take a psychological and physiological toll on the body, mind, and spirit.…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Critical Theory, Race, Psychological Patterns
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Aston, Candice; Graves, Scott L., Jr.; McGoey, Kara; Lovelace, Temple; Townsend, Tiffany – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
New estimates report that Black girls are facing an educational crisis with regard to disproportionate disciplinary practices and academics. To date, there has been very limited research with regard to school-based interventions that have been designed to help Black girls explore both their cultural and gender identity. This is problematic because…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Discipline
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Blayney, Jessica A.; Jenzer, Tiffany; Read, Jennifer P.; Livingston, Jennifer A.; Testa, Maria – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: The Circle of Six (Co6) phone application (app), winner of the White House's "Apps Against Abuse Challenge," seeks to incorporate friends into sexual victimization risk reduction. Despite its growing presence on college campuses, the feasibility/acceptability of the app to college women is unknown. This mixed methods study…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Disclosure
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Rodríguez, Ana Carolina Reyes; Noriega, José Angel Vera; Cuervo, Angel Alberto Valdés – World Journal of Education, 2017
Research in recent years indicates that schools, and in particular teaching practices, play an essential role in preventing bullying. This study's aim is to investigate the direct and indirect relationships between permissive and direct intervention teacher practices, school support and bullying. In a non-probabilistic way, 386 (58.1%) boys and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Bullying, Intervention, Teacher Role
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Kruger, Ann Cale; Zabek, Faith; Collins, Staeshe; Harper, Erin A.; Hamilton, Chela; McGee, Miriam Chitescu; Perkins, Catherine; Meyers, Joel – School Psychology Forum, 2016
In disadvantaged neighborhoods African American girls are at elevated risk for exposure to violence and sexualization (Miller, 2008; Salazar, Wingood, DiClemente, Lan, & Harrington, 2004). Preventive interventions can promote resilience by supporting capacities such as social decision making and self-understanding (Masten, 2001). We report on…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Neighborhoods, Community Characteristics
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Leisring, Penny A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2013
Intimate partner violence is extremely common in college samples. To inform prevention and intervention efforts, understanding the motivation for engaging in partner aggression is critically important. The predominant view in the domestic violence field has been that women's use of intimate partner violence occurs in the context of self-defense.…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Violence, Females, Aggression
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Mercer Kollar, Laura M.; Davis, Teaniese L.; Monahan, Jennifer L.; Samp, Jennifer A.; Coles, Valerie B.; Bradley, Erin L. P.; Sales, Jessica McDermott; Comer, Sarah K.; Worley, Timothy; Rose, Eve; DiClemente, Ralph J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Sexual risk reduction interventions are often ineffective for women who drink alcohol. The present study examines whether an alcohol-related sexual risk reduction intervention successfully trains women to increase assertive communication behaviors and decrease aggressive communication behaviors. Women demonstrated their communication skills during…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Risk Management, Intervention, Females
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Wilson, Anna – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2014
This review critically examines "Ugly Ducklings: A National Campaign to Reduce Bullying and Harassment of LGBTQ Youth" through a DVD and educator's guidebook. The "Ugly Ducklings" Community Action Kit has two parts: (1) a documentary about the harassment of lesbian youth and (2) short dialogues with "Ugly…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Documentaries, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation
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Goulter, Natalie; Kimonis, Eva R.; Hawes, Samuel W.; Stepp, Stephanie; Hipwell, Alison E. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have proven important for designating children and adolescents showing a pattern of particularly severe, stable, and aggressive antisocial behaviors (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). Individuals with secondary CU traits represent a subpopulation that are distinguished from those with primary CU traits by…
Descriptors: Females, Anxiety, Personality Traits, Mental Health
Virtanen, Crystal – Canadian Journal of Education, 2013
The author of this paper explores the media's role in the normalization of relational aggression of females and the implications this can have in schools. It is important that those who teach, support, and develop curricula for students be aware of the media's role in the use, and the effects, of indirect aggression and have information on how to…
Descriptors: Females, Aggression, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role
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Shorey, Ryan C.; Temple, Jeff R.; Febres, Jeniimarie; Brasfield, Hope; Sherman, Amanda E.; Stuart, Gregory L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Psychological aggression is the most prevalent form of aggression in dating relationships, with women perpetrating as much, if not more, psychological aggression than men. Researchers have advocated for an examination of the consequences that follow psychological aggression for the perpetrator, in hopes that this will lead to innovative…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Intervention, Psychology, Dating (Social)
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Karriker-Jaffe, Katherine J.; Foshee, Vangie A.; Ennett, Susan T.; Suchindran, Chirayath – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Adolescents develop within multiple contexts that synergistically influence their behavior and health. To understand the simultaneous influence of neighborhood and family contexts on adolescents, this study examined relationships of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, neighborhood social disorganization, family conflict, parent-child bonding…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Aggression, Conflict
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Radliff, Kisha M.; Joseph, Laurice M. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
Although physical aggression has received much attention in the literature, relational aggression has only been explored in the past decade or so. This is problematic given that relational aggression is increasingly prevalent among middle school girls and has become a cause for alarm, as this phenomenon leads to several negative psychological,…
Descriptors: Females, School Personnel, Incidence, Social Support Groups
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