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Brandi L. Clay – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students who experience poverty often face barriers to school success. These barriers include emotional factors that affect learning, internal motivation, as well as social and cultural barriers. This multiple case study examines how a specific school intervention program, Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG), increases students' social well-being…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Well Being, Intervention
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Booth-LaForce, Cathryn; Oxford, Monica L.; O'Leary, Rae; Buchwald, Dedra S. – Prevention Science, 2023
This study tested the effectiveness of Promoting First Relationships® (PFR), a preventive intervention program aimed at fostering positive caregiver-child relationships in Native families living on a rural reservation. Participants were 162 primary caregivers (96% Native; 93% female) and their Native toddlers (10-31 months old; 50% female).…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Toddlers, American Indians, Indigenous Populations
Kate Hails; S. Andrew Garbacz; Elizabeth A. Stormshak; Laura Lee McIntyre – Grantee Submission, 2023
Although school-based preventive parenting interventions have been found to promote children's social-emotional skill development and behavioral functioning, it is important to understand potential barriers to engagement in such programs to ensure that intervention access is equitable and likely to reach those who could most benefit. In the…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Parent Participation, Family School Relationship, Intervention
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Paolini, Allison C. – Journal of School Counseling, 2020
This article focuses on gun violence in the school setting and the role of the counselor in helping to reduce gun violence. Gun violence in schools has become pervasive for many reasons, including lack of adequate support staff, undiagnosed mental health issues, students who experience isolation, anger, depression, bullying, as well as access to…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, School Safety, School Counselors
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Gordon, Mary – Childhood Education, 2020
Calls for innovation in education often focus on the need to prepare students for the future. Ensuring that we are supporting their empathy for others is an often overlooked, but critical, aspect of that preparation.
Descriptors: Empathy, Child Rearing, Child Abuse, Violence
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Asanjarani, Faramarz; Asgari, Mostafa – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
School-based empowerment programs are types of interventions targeting students with or without behavioral, psychological, and emotional difficulties at schools. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of a school-based social and mental empowerment program on students' behavioral and developmental problems. We…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, School Counseling, Well Being, Mental Health
Shelley R. Hart; Celene Domitrovich; Dennis D. Embry; Kimberly Becker; April Lawson; Nicholas Ialongo – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
A group, randomized, comparative effectiveness trial of two elementary universal preventive interventions (PAX Good Behavior Game [PAX GBG] and the integration of PAX GBG with Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies [PATHS to PAX]) was carried out in general education classrooms in 27 urban elementary schools. Ialongo et al. report on results of…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities
Brittany Mauceri – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There has been a significant rise in mental health needs in adolescents, and the COVID-19 pandemic has severely disturbed everyday life, causing an increase in anxiety and social isolation amongst adolescents throughout the world (CDC, 2017; Yale Child Study Center, 2020). Effective Tier 1 social-emotional universal interventions to foster…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Adolescents, COVID-19, Pandemics
2M Research, 2022
Recent research has demonstrated that educators and students succeed when students are present, engaged, socially secure, and academically successful. These practice recommendations draw upon studies of whole-school or whole-class interventions that support prosocial behavior in elementary school students, including students who are identified as…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Elementary School Students, Classroom Techniques
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Strohmeier, Dagmar; Solomontos-Kountouri, Olga; Burger, Christoph; Dogan, Aysun – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
The effectiveness of the Viennese Social Competence (ViSC) programme on various bullying-related teacher variables was examined at two time points with a quasi-experimental intervention-control group design. In Austria, Cyprus, and Turkey, teachers participated in a series of in-school trainings and implemented an anti-bullying prevention…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Interpersonal Competence, Bullying, Prevention
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Jones, Stephanie; Bailey, Rebecca; Kahn, Jennifer – State Education Standard, 2019
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) refers to the process through which individuals learn and apply social, emotional, behavioral, and character skills required to succeed in schooling, the workplace, relationships, and citizenship. In public discussion of SEL, not everyone can quite agree on what it is. To some, it involves a set of tools for…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Citizenship Education, Behavior
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Jones, Stephanie M.; McGarrah, Michael W.; Kahn, Jennifer – Educational Psychologist, 2019
Decades of research and practice in social and emotional development have left us with a body of knowledge that tells us that (1) social, emotional, and cognitive development are intertwined in the brain and in behavior and influence school and life outcomes; (2) social, emotional, and cognitive skills and competencies grow in supportive…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Individual Development, Cognitive Development
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Sharma, Drishti; Mehari, Krista R.; Kishore, Jugal; Sharma, Nandini; Duggal, Mona – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
A quasi-experimental study was conducted in the eighth grade of two public schools located in Central Delhi. Two classes (95 participants) in the intervention school and three classes (108 participants) in the comparison school participated. The brief intervention was implemented across four 2-hour sessions for 1 month in the intervention school.…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Early Adolescents
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Neale, Anna – Pastoral Care in Education, 2019
The aim of this research was to critically examine methods for reducing incidences of aggression within adolescence. To achieve this aim, a proactive intervention programme was devised and implemented aimed at changing attitudes towards physical and relational aggression through social skills education within the College's tutorial programme. The…
Descriptors: Prevention, Adolescents, Aggression, Attitude Change
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Reicher, Hannelore; Matischek-Jauk, Marlies – Improving Schools, 2019
Depressive adolescents are a challenging and vulnerable group in schools. Specific developmental features such as irritability and comorbid behavioural disorders complicate the recognition of their emotional problems for peers, teachers and even parents. Our research shows that teachers tend to overlook depressive feelings in adolescents; however,…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Adolescents, At Risk Students, Peer Relationship
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