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Samta P. Pandya – High Ability Studies, 2024
This article reports a study on the impact of online spiritual lessons in improving self-regulation, emotion regulation, affect balance, peer relations, and well-being of high-ability college students of liberal arts disciplines. Compared to an online workshop on affect management, the online spiritual lessons were effective. Moderate effects were…
Descriptors: College Students, High Achievement, Academic Ability, Liberal Arts
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Waters, Sara F.; Hulette, Annmarie; Davis, Mindy; Bernstein, Rosemary; Lieberman, Alicia – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Prevention and amelioration of the myriad effects of toxic stress on child development is a significant public health concern. Scalable programmes to address this concern are lacking. Attachment Vitamins (AV) is a novel universal prevention programme for parents of young children that is trauma-informed and addresses toxic stress within a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Child Health, Prevention
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Pat-Horenczyk, R.; Shi, C. Sim Wei; Schramm-Yavin, S.; Bar-Halpern, M.; Tan, L. J. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: The Building Emotion and Affect Regulation (BEAR) program is a theory-based group intervention for enhancing resilience in children, with a focus on strengthening emotion regulation. The BEAR is a 6-session protocol for children aged 7-12 who have been subject to traumatic life events. Objective: This paper presents the guiding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Affective Behavior, Self Control
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McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Augustine, Catherine H.; Unlu, Fatih; Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.; Naftel, Scott; Gomez, Celia J.; Marsh, Terry; Akinniranye, Goke; Todd, Ivy – RAND Corporation, 2019
Research evidence suggests that summer breaks contribute to income-based achievement and opportunity gaps for children and youth. However, summertime can also be used to provide programs that support an array of goals for children and youth, including improved academic achievement, physical health, mental health, social and emotional well-being,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Access to Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
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Bender, Stacy L.; Fedor, Megan C.; Carlson, John S. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This study examined a comprehensive screening model within children attending Head Start programs from urban (n = 232) and rural (n = 231) communities. The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA; LeBuffe & Naglieri, 1999) was used to measure social-emotional protective factors (i.e., Total Protective Factors [TPF]) and risk factors (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Urban Programs, Income, Disadvantaged Youth
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Lotze, Geri M.; Ravindran, Neeraja; Myers, Barbara J. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
Children with incarcerated mothers are at high risk for developing problem behaviors. Fifty children (6-12 years; 62% girls) participated in summer camps, along with adult mentors. Regression analyses of child and adult measures of child's emotion self-regulation and callous-unemotional traits, and a child measure of moral emotions, showed that…
Descriptors: Mentors, Mothers, Prevention, Emotional Development
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Knox, Michele S.; Burkhart, Kimberly; Hunter, Kimberly E. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids program (ACT-PRSK) is an interactive violence prevention program developed by the American Psychological Association for parents of young children. The program teaches and supports parents in the areas of child development, roots and consequences of violence, anger management for adults and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Intervention, Family Violence, Child Abuse
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Setty, Robert M.; Hawkins, Raymond C. – 1980
Relapses in alcoholics, smokers, and heroin users are frequently provoked by stress. Individuals often return to using addictive substances when feeling angry or frustrated as the result of negative mood states, interpersonal conflict, or social pressure. A behavioral weight-control program used to treat 140 overweight college students was…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Body Weight