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Parent to Parent Peer Support across the Pacific Rim
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Singer, George H. S.; Hornby, Garry; Park, Jiyeon; Wang, Mian; Xu, Jiacheng – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2012
In Pacific Rim countries parents of children with developmental disabilities have organized peer support organizations. One form of peer support is Parent to Parent based on one to one connections between two parents. The movements to create and sustain peer support in the U.S., New Zealand, China, and Korea are described. Qualitative evidence…
Descriptors: Parents, Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Family Life
Preschool Predictors of Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Prospective Community Study
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Wichstrøm, Lars; Belsky, Jay; Berg-Nielsen, Turid Suzanne – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Anxiety disorders are often present at preschool age. Research on older children and studies contrasting preschoolers with high versus low behavioral inhibition (BI) highlight several risk factors, but these have not been investigated in community samples of young children. Child, parent, and peer factors at age 4 were therefore…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Anxiety Disorders, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Bullying and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder in 10-Year-Olds in a Swedish Community
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Holmberg, Kirsten; Hjern, Anders – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
The association of attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with bullying in the peer group in school was studied in an entire population of 577 fourth graders (10-year-olds) in one municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. The schoolchildren were screened for ADHD in a two-step procedure that included Conners' ratings of behavioural problems:…
Descriptors: Bullying, Hyperactivity, Adolescents, Peer Groups
Factors Associated with Successful Functioning in American Indian Youths
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Silmere, Hile; Stiffman, Arlene Rubin – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2006
This study examines environmental and cultural factors related to successful functioning in a stratified random sample of 401 American Indian youths. The success index included seven indicators: good mental health, being alcohol and drug free, absence of serious misbehavior, clean police record, good grades, positive psychosocial functioning, and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Youth, Cultural Influences, Interviews
From Early to Late Adolescence: American Indian Youths' Behavioral Trajectories and Their Major Influences
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Stiffman, Arlene Rubin; Alexander-Eitzman, Benjamin; Silmere, Hiie; Osborne, Victoria; Brown, Eddie – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: This article identifies behavioral trajectories of American Indian adolescents and examines their predictors. Method: A total of 401 urban and reservation American Indian adolescents were interviewed yearly from 2001 to 2004 (with 341 youths, or 85%, retained to 2004, and 385 completing at least two interviews). The Youth Self-Report…
Descriptors: American Indians, Mental Health, Behavior Modification, Late Adolescents
Popularity in Early Adolescence: Prosocial and Antisocial Subtypes
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de Bruyn, Eddy H.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2006
The present study was designed to examine early adolescents' stereotypical descriptions of two types of youth who are seen as popular by their peers. Participants were 13- to 14-year-old early adolescents (N = 287). The results indicated that early adolescents distinguished two types of popular peers: a "populistic" (popular but not…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Early Adolescents, Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior