The current status of at-risk and adjudicated youth with behavioral challenges provides a context for addressing needed future directions for research and practice in fields that impact this population. This context includes the myriad characteristics and complex needs of these youth, the programs and services currently available in communities…

A conceptual scheme developed by the National Needs Analysis Project in Behavior Disorders is presented for guiding program description and evaluation in the behavioral disorders field. The scheme identifies essential program components such as philosophy, community involvement, and exit procedures. Underlying assumptions, the development process,…

Available from: EC 090 474. The Security Unit School--an educational and residential treatment model in Pennsylvania for 24 juvenile offenders (15-18 years old)--is described in terms of problems encountered in assimilating students into the program, planning a curriculum, developing effective instructional materials, and providing treatment. (SBH)

This special issue presents seven papers describing programs for children with behavioral disorders. Among topics addressed are use of role playing to foster social skills, truancy intervention, and cooperative efforts by mental health agencies and public schools. (CL)

The article describes the Institution Special Education Program which provides educational services for approximately 750 institutionalized handicapped children. (PHR)

The article describes a program which provides vocational training, career planning, and therapeutic supervision for older emotionally disturbed adolescents (for whom facilities are so often not available). It is explained that resources for the program have come from the local board of education and the community mental hospital. (PHR)

This study examined preliminary effectiveness of one of the first Project Re-ED (Re-education of Emotionally Disturbed children) residential treatment centers for children. Data were collected at admission, at discharge, and up to 6 months postdischarge. Findings show substantial decreases in problem behaviors and improvements in personal…

Available from: EC 090 474. Outlined are the problems and objectives of Pennsylvania's Camp Hill Project--a program designed to complete psychological needs assessments for juveniles incarcerated at Camp Hill, to develop project policies and guidelines in preparation for meeting with juvenile court judges, and to hire staff. (SBH)

To collect data on program descriptions in the field of serious emotional disturbance/behavioral disorders, an instrument was developed and field tested with 145 school districts. Findings indicated that few comprehensive program descriptions (outlining student identification procedures, instructional methods, community involvement, evaluation,…

A resource room and special station program for seriously emotionally disturbed junior high school youth is described. The author discusses the philosophy and programs of the Responsibility Resource Rooms and Resource Center. (Author/PHR)

Available from: EC 090 474.

The article describes the development and operation of a psychiatric hospital model school program which provides evaluation and teaching of behaviorally disordered, severely handicapped, and gifted children and adolescents during two months on the basis of six continua, prior to placement in regular or special classrooms. (MC)

The Social Competence Intervention Project addressed the problem of social withdrawal of handicapped children by meeting four goals: (1) identifying social behaviors likely to engender positive social encounters, (2) evaluating the effectiveness of critical social initiations by handicapped children, (3) developing empirically valid teaching…

The principal of a secondary school for emotionally disturbed adolescents describes the program at his school. (Author/PHR)

The article presents an approach (the Fagen-Long Curriculum) to developing skills for self-control as a means of preventing and reducing emotional and behavioral disorders in schools. (SBH)