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Spielberger, Julie; Burkhardt, Tiffany; Winje, Carolyn; Pacheco-Applegate, Aida; Gitlow, Elissa; Carreon, Erin; Huang, Lee Ann; Herriott, Anna; Kakuyama-Villaber, Reiko – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2021
Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) is a relationship-based, collaborative support designed to improve the capacity of early childhood professionals to promote children's mental health. Social and emotional development is the foundation for success in learning and in life. It begins in children's early relationships with…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Young Children
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The "Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS®)" program is a curriculum that aims to promote emotional and social competencies and to reduce aggression and behavior problems in elementary school children. "PATHS"® is delivered through short lessons given two to three times a week over the school year. The program is…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Intervention, Program Implementation, Best Practices
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Lau, Lily H. S.; Moore, Dennis W.; Anderson, Angelika – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2019
This study evaluated teachers' use of universal Program-Wide Positive Behavior Support (PW-PBS) practices at a class-wide level, the rate of disruptive behavior, and the level of academic engagement in Singapore preschool general education classrooms. Evaluation was carried out in 32 classrooms using mainly direct observational methods. Findings…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Foreign Countries, Preschools, Preschool Children
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Druker, Kerianne; Mazzucchelli, Trevor; Hennessey, Neville; Beilby, Janet – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study reports findings from a clinical trial that implemented an early stuttering treatment program integrated with evidence-based parenting support (EBPS) to children who stutter (CWS) with concomitant self-regulation challenges manifested in elevated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (eADHD) symptoms and compared those…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice, Self Management
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2021
Second Substitute Senate Bill 5903 (2019) directed the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to contract with an organization providing coaching services to early achievers program participants, i.e., Child Care Aware of Washington (CCA WA), to provide statewide Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMH-C) to Early…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Early Intervention, Infants, Toddlers
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Zimmerman, Marc A.; Eisman, Andria B.; Reischl, Thomas M.; Morrel-Samuels, Susan; Stoddard, Sarah; Miller, Alison L.; Hutchison, Pete; Franzen, Susan; Rupp, Laney – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
We report on an effectiveness evaluation of the Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) program. YES applies empowerment theory to an after-school program for middle school students. YES is an active learning curriculum designed to help youth gain confidence in themselves, think critically about their community, and work with adults to create positive…
Descriptors: Empowerment, After School Programs, Middle School Students, Pretests Posttests
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Stanton-Chapman, Tina L.; Walker, Virginia; Jamison, Kristen R. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2014
The current study evaluated the peer-to-peer interactions of at-risk children enrolled in Head Start who participated in a social pragmatic intervention targeting skills such as initiations, responses, name use, proximity, and turn-taking skills. Eight Head Start classroom teams received two workshops and two coaching sessions and were taught to…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Bloomquist, Michael L.; August, Gerald J.; Horowitz, Jason L.; Lee, Susanne S.; Jensen, Cheryl – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2008
This paper summarizes an effort to transpose and sustain the evidence-based Early Risers "Skills for Success" conduct problems prevention program in a real world community service system. The Early Risers program had previously been implemented by a local agency within the context of research-based operations. In the current initiative,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Prevention, Program Implementation, Financial Support
Miles, Nicholas I.; Wilder, David A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
The effectiveness of a behavioral skills training package that consisted of modeling, rehearsal, and feedback was evaluated to increase correct implementation of guided compliance by caregivers of 3 children who exhibited noncompliance. Results showed that the training package improved performance of guided compliance. Generalization probes…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Caregivers, Behavior Modification, Skill Development
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Leadbeater, Bonnie – School Psychology Review, 2010
The collection of articles in this special issue on relational aggression gives a glimpse into the complex social networks, first, of children's relational aggression and, second, of the collaborators who develop and validate children's prevention programs. The programs described in this special section are among the first to address relational…
Descriptors: Aggression, Prevention, Early Adolescents, Social Networks
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Arnold, David H.; Brown, Sharice A.; Meagher, Susan; Baker, Courtney N.; Dobbs, Jennifer; Doctoroff, Greta L. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2006
Few mental health initiatives for young children have used classroom programs. Preschool-based efforts targeting externalizing behavior could help prevent conduct disorders. Additional benefits may include improved academic achievement and reduced risk for other mental health difficulties. Pro-grams that target multiple developmental domains are…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Education, Child Behavior, Academic Achievement
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