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Catherine Teotico – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Studies indicate that socio-emotional-focused interventions can create lasting benefits for children across a variety of domains. Primary Project is an evidence-based program established 60 years ago that has historically been found to help improve children's social and emotional skills. The present study analyzed its continued effectiveness as…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Social Emotional Learning, Young Children
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Del Greco, Linda; And Others – Adolescence, 1986
Seventh graders (N=161) participated in health education classes consisting of either an innovative smoking education program, the program plus assertiveness training, or a traditional smoking education program. Data collected four years later revealed no significant differences in smoking behavior, changes in assertion, or sex differences among…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Health Education, High School Students
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Polansky, Joan M.; Buki, Lydia P.; Horan, John J.; Ceperich, Sherry Dyche; Burows, Deborah Dyer – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1999
The effectiveness of three substance-abuse-prevention videotapes derived from contrasting theoretical frameworks was evaluated using 312 rural Mexican-American students in grades seven through eight. The assertion-training video produced higher levels of assertiveness among ninth-graders; the others had no impact. Discusses the importance of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Comparative Analysis, Culturally Relevant Education