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Kappler, Lisajane – ProQuest LLC, 2019
When secondary school students display continued negative behaviors, school administrators often decide to assign out-of-school suspension or transfer the students to alternative placements, citing the school's inability to educate these students in the district's home setting. Out-of-district placements are not an option for all districts,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Psychiatric Services, Day Programs, Secondary School Students
Sugarman, Julie – Migration Policy Institute, 2017
Immigrant and refugee youth who enter the United States during their secondary school years face a daunting set of challenges. In addition to learning a new language and adjusting to U.S. classroom norms, they must quickly fill gaps in their subject-matter knowledge and pass the courses required to graduate high school before aging out of the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, High School Students, Immigrants, Refugees
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Hogue, Aaron; Dauber, Sarah – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2013
The goal of this study was to document comorbidity profiles of psychiatric disorder and perceived need for treatment among urban adolescents with unmet behavioral health needs. Participants were 303 community-referred adolescents and their primary caregivers. Adolescents included both boys (54%) and girls and were primarily Hispanic (58%), African…
Descriptors: Profiles, Health Needs, Adolescents, Comorbidity
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Clemens, Elysia V.; Welfare, Laura E.; Williams, Amy M. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
Psychiatric hospitalization is an intensive intervention designed to stabilize adolescents who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis. Reintegrating to school after discharge from psychiatric hospitalization can be overwhelming for many adolescents (E. V. Clemens, L. E. Welfare, & A. M. Williams, 2010). The authors used a consensual…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mental Health, Adolescents, Mental Disorders
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Hornsveld, Ruud H. J.; Muris, Peter; Kraaimaat, Floris W.; Meesters, Cor – Assessment, 2009
The psychometric properties of a Dutch version of Buss and Perry's Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) were examined in a sample of violent forensic psychiatric inpatients and outpatients and a sample of secondary vocational students. The internal consistency, interitem correlations, and item--scale correlations of the subscales Physical Aggression,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Aggression, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Gretton, Heather M.; Hare, Robert D.; Catchpole, Rosalind E. H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
This study examined the predictive validity of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; A. E. Forth, D. S. Kosson, & R. D. Hare, 2003) from adolescence to early adulthood. The authors coded the PCL:YV using file information and collected criminal record information over a 10-year follow-up period on 157 boys, ages 12 through 18,…
Descriptors: Psychiatric Services, Predictive Validity, Adolescents, Young Adults