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Brennan, Alison L.; Hektner, Joel M.; Brotherson, Sean E.; Hansen, Tracy M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: Parent training programs are increasingly being offered to the general public with little formal evaluation of their effects. One such program, the Nurtured Heart Approach to parenting (NHA; Glasser and Easley in "Transforming the difficult child: The Nurtured Heart Approach," Vaughan Printing, Nashville, 2008), contains…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Sampling, Program Descriptions, Parenting Skills
Fronapfel, Brighid; Dunlap, Glen; Flagtvedt, Kristen; Strain, Phillip; Lee, Janice – Education and Treatment of Children, 2018
This article describes Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children (PTR-YC), a model based on extensive research that is designed for feasibility and effectiveness for treating challenging behaviors in classroom settings. This model is designed to meet the needs of children with and without disabilities who engage in challenging behavior that…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Early Childhood Education, Case Studies, Program Descriptions
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Prout, Alan – Children & Society, 2002
Describes the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Children 5-16 Research Programme, a 5-year project which examined contemporary childhood in the United Kingdom, including aspects of social lives, living conditions, experiences, and perspectives. Notes specific research aims: to develop new knowledge about children as social actors, to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Child Behavior, Children, Foreign Countries
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Da Ros, Denise; Duff, R. Eleanor – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1995
Discusses the benefits of having family-style meals in early childhood programs. Notes how such meals allow young children to develop self-help and communication skills and allow teachers to assess many aspects of children's development. Reviews the implementation of a family-style meal program at the University of South Carolina's Children's…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Communication Skills, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 2002
This report presents an evaluation of family preservation programs in Kentucky, New Jersey, and Tennessee, and a county program in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Key goals of these programs were reducing foster care placement, maintaining child safety, and improving family functioning. The statewide programs employed the Homebuilders program…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Child Welfare, Children