Teachers and principals need help in combating antisocial behaviors in the classroom. This book shares the key components of "Essential Character Discipline," a positive behavior program designed to help students learn integrity, courtesy, loyalty, respect, perseverance, honor, and self control. The book contains the tools needed to…

This introductory packet contains materials to help the school mental health worker deal with conduct and behavior problems among students. The range of such problems is described, using fact sheets and the classification scheme from the American Pediatric Association. Selections from a variety of sources discuss differences in the interventions…

This digest discusses student profiling and describes strategies for reducing the risk of violence in schools. "Student profiling" refers to a process in which checklists of behaviors and personal characteristics associated with youth who have perpetrated violence are used to determine a student's potential for future violence. A central…

Preventing youth from dropping out of school is an enormous challenge for school systems, especially students who display aggressive behaviors at school. While many aspects of managing student behavior in the classroom are challenging, chronic and severe aggressive behaviors are most difficult to manage. The aggressive student is often…

Three demographic-structural variables ("principal wage earner,""size of family," and "ordinal position") are correlated with "drug use" in this study. Analysis of the data reveals weak relationships that are consistent with previous studies in the case of whites, but not for blacks. However, these demographic-structural variables which have been…

This article describes a study of the characteristics of two groups of mature women in vocational training at a poverty agency and the counseling problems and training outcomes of the groups. (Author)

Examines several assumptions about the relationships between (1) official delinquency, (2) socioeconomic status, and (3) the group context of delinquent acts (based on data independent of official records). (Author/JM)

Examination of crimes and of evidence of legal offenses committed by minors in the Kharkov Region shows minors are poorly informed about law, have no understanding of illegality of their acts. Educational preventive measures have been intensified through lectures, telecasts, teacher education seminars, etc., throughout the school systems. (JMB)

Data from a national sample of 13 to 16 year old boys and girls are examined for empirical evidence of a conceptual distinction between delinquent behavior and official delinquency--e.g., apprehended and recorded delinquent behavior. (Author/JM)

Study explored the influence of the early home environment on the young adult's attitudes; the Anti-Establishment'' group tended to have less stable family relationships. (SP)

Suggests that peer group pressures could be a deterrent in using drugs in high school. (DS)

Examines Cohen's status-frustration theory" in relation to adolescent behavior and delinquency. (SB)

Charges that the field of sociology fails: (i) to emphasize the common characteristics of deviants and nondeviants; (ii) to give due attention to undramatic" forms of deviance; and, (iii) to explore the role of power in defining deviance." (JM)

Five hundred thirteen behaviorally disturbed retarded and borderline retarded males from a Scottish therapeutic community were studied retrospectively and by cross-sectional analysis 10 years after the community terminated. (Author)

Elementary school children of both sexes (n=132) saw a male peer film model either rewarded or punished for touching prohibited toys. The model either smiled, cried, or showed no reaction, and subsequently had a differential influence on the behavior of children who observed. (NH)