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Gibbs, John C.; Potter, Granville Bud; DiBiase, Ann-Marie; Devlin, Renee – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2008
Youth who present anti-social behavior need powerful interventions that strengthen empathy, counter negative peer influence, and challenge thinking errors. This article recaps some key points about EQUIP, a Positive Peer Culture (PPC)-based cognitive behavioral intervention program for behaviorally at-risk youth, and notes how the program has…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Behavior, At Risk Persons, Peer Influence
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Udwin, Orlee – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Children who had been removed from deleterious family environments were exposed to 10 sessions of imaginative play training. When compared with matched controls, experimental subjects showed significant post training increments in imagination, positive emotionality, prosocial behaviors, and storytelling skills and decreases in overt aggression.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Child Neglect, Creative Thinking
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Arnold, Elizabeth Mayfield; Kirk, Raymond S.; Roberts, Amelia C.; Griffith, Diane P.; Meadows, Katherine; Julian, Judy – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2003
This study examined the psychosocial functioning of 100 adolescent females (ages 12-17) sentenced to secure care in a southeastern state and the impact of a gender-specific, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention on the psychosocial functioning of subjects who reported a history of sexual abuse. The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sexual Abuse, Females, Adolescents