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Franke, Kathleen Blackburn; Paton, Mariajosé; Weist, Mark – School Psychology Review, 2020
South Carolina (SC) is a leading state for the delivery of comprehensive school mental health (SMH) services, involving mental health education system partnerships. Currently, more than 60% of SC schools include mental health clinicians from the state Department of Mental Health; there is a widely endorsed goal 100% of SC schools to have at least…
Descriptors: Mental Health, School Health Services, Health Education, Allied Health Personnel
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Sarmento, Patricia; Almeida, Katia; Rauktis, Mary Elizabeth; Bernardo, Susana – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2008
Trilhos Alternativos (Alternative Paths) is a community-based program that aims to integrate African-Portuguese urban youth from low-income families into Portuguese society. This article describes the first year of the program and presents formative data about effectiveness of the program. The motivation system seems to be an indirect variable…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Grade 3, Grade 4
Dodge, Kenneth A., Ed.; Dishion, Thomas J., Ed.; Lansford, Jennifer E., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2006
Most interventions for at-risk youth are group based. Yet, emerging research indicates that young people often learn to become deviant by interacting with deviant peers. In this important volume, leading intervention and prevention experts from psychology, education, criminology, and related fields analyze how, and to what extent, programs that…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Child Welfare, Youth Programs, Prevention
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Burdsal, Charles; Force, Ronald C. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Explored counselor ratings of 10- to 13-year-old Ss (N=132) in three therapeutic camping trips. Results indicated a significant difference between boys and girls from third-trip comparisons on unstructured dependence. Reliable counselor ratings were found, and boys were perceived by the counselors to change, while girls were not. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Behavior Problems, Camping, Community Programs
Barksdale, Agnes W. – 1979
A two-year (1977-1979) program was developed to increase mental health services to students and their families in an inner city school. The counseling supervisor from the school district and the director of a mental health agency developed a mobile mental health program. Students and their families were not always able to go to the agency for…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Educational Therapy, Elementary Education, Family Counseling
East Chicago City School District, IN. – 1970
The Junior Police program utilized non-academic youth interests as its foundation. The project filled the need for a youth organization, a youth clearinghouse, and more aid to delinquent and predelinquent youth to redirect them into ways of thinking and acting beneficial both to themselves and to the community. The objectives of the program were…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Behavior Problems, Child Development, Delinquency Prevention