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Teacher Consultation and Coaching within Mental Health Practice: Classroom and Child Effects in Urban Elementary Schools
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Cappella, Elise; Hamre, Bridget K.; Kim, Ha Yeon; Henry, David B.; Frazier, Stacy L.; Atkins, Marc S.; Schoenwald, Sonja K. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: To examine effects of a teacher consultation and coaching program delivered by school and community mental health professionals on change in observed classroom interactions and child functioning across one school year. Method: Thirty-six classrooms within 5 urban elementary schools (87% Latino, 11% Black) were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mental Health, Children, Teaching Methods
Psychosis or Faith? Clinicians' Assessment of Religious Beliefs
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O'Connor, Shawn; Vandenberg, Brian – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
This study investigated mental health professionals' assessment of the pathognomonic significance of religious beliefs. A total of 110 participants reviewed 3 vignettes depicting individuals possessing the religious beliefs associated with Catholicism, Mormonism, and Nation of Islam. The religious beliefs of the individuals in the vignettes were…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Religion, Psychosis, Pathology
Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy.
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Mossman, Douglas – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994
Critiques violence prediction via methods for quantifying accuracy that fail to control for base rates or biases and describes how receiver-operating characteristic analysis can compensate. Via reanalysis of datasets from previously published studies suggests that mental health professionals' violence predictions are substantially more accurate…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Mental Health Workers, Predictive Validity, Socioeconomic Influences
Reliability of Diagnosing Complicated Grief: A Preliminary Investigation.
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Marwit, Samuel J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Forty experienced mental health providers were asked to diagnose four case histories, each involving an aspect of difficult grief embedded in a larger psychopathology context. Results are discussed in relation to the growing literature differentiating grief from existing Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classifications and…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling, Depression (Psychology), Diagnostic Tests
Clinical versus Actuarial Predictions of Violence in Patients with Mental Illness.
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Gardner, William; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Compared accuracy of an actuarial procedure for the prediction of community violence by patients with mental illnesses to accuracy of clinicians' concern ratings of patient violence. Data came from a study of 357 pairs of patients seen in a psychiatric emergency room. Actuarial predictions based only on patients' histories of violence were more…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Clinical Diagnosis, Emotional Response
What Do Clinicians Expect?: Comparing Envisioned and Reported Violence for Male and Female Patients
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Skeem, Jennifer L.; Mulvey, Edward P.; Odgers, Candice; Schubert, Carol; Stowman, Stephanie; Gardner, William; Lidz, Charles – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Mental health professionals' (MHPs') accuracy in assessing the risk of violence in female patients is particularly limited. Based on assessments made by 205 MHPs of 605 patients in an emergency room, this study explored potential causes of MHPs' poorer accuracy in assessing women's potential for violence. The dimensions that underlie MHPs'…
Descriptors: Females, Patients, Males, Mental Health Workers