Randomly assigned 147 families with aggressive child (age 4 to 9 years) to standard family treatment (SFT) focusing exclusively on parental management or to enhanced family treatment (EFT) that also promoted discussions of adult issues. EFT produced significantly lower dropout rate than SFT overall but particularly for high-adversity families.…

Presents review and critique of play therapy literature related to abused and neglected children. Discusses seven characteristic play behaviors and two common play themes of maltreated children. Offers recommendations for future research. Includes 50 citations. (Author/CRR)

Finds that students with participation experience in competitive debate differ from those prior to such experience in the level of argumentativeness (ARG) and verbal aggression (VA). Reveals that policy and nonpolicy formats of debate, and male and female participants, differ significantly in levels of ARG and VA. (SR)

Examined prevalence and correlates of courtship violence in 202 male Canadian college students. Results showed that over 42 percent of respondents had engaged in some form of courtship violence, although more extreme forms of violence were not evident. Six significant interactions between vulnerability factors and precipitating factors explained…

Examined fraternity membership and sexual aggression. Findings from male undergraduates (83 fraternity members and 178 independents) revealed that fraternity members were significantly more likely than independents to engage in nonphysical coercion and to use drugs and alcohol as sexual strategy but did not differ significantly in their use of…

Assessed role of child gender in moderating association between husbands' aggression toward wives and parental aggression toward children with 73 mothers. Found that, in families characterized by husbands' marital aggression, boys and girls experienced similar parental aggression; however, more frequent and severe levels of husbands' marital…

Describes how a Life Space Crisis Intervention works to educate school personnel and students about verbal aggression. By analyzing insults, it is possible to avoid being hurt and thrown off focus, thus keeping perspective on the issues at hand. (MKA)

Identifying types of student aggression is essential to providing early and effective interventions; a model is presented for subtyping childhood aggression. Reactive and proactive aggression are discussed with examples of teacher observations and counselor interviews. Behavioral indicators of subtypes are presented. Intervening with each type is…

Investigates the telegraphed emotion of "the look," a feature of adolescent social interaction that can quickly initiate or escalate conflict. Using focus groups, teenage females were asked to define the look and to discuss its use and the consequences. Results indicate that the look often results in escalation of conflict, especially a…

Forty adolescents were observed at McDonald's restaurants in Miami and Paris to assess the amount of touching and aggression during their peer interactions. The American adolescents spent less time leaning against, stroking, kissing, and hugging their peers than did the French adolescents. Instead, they showed more self-touching and more…

Tested the hypothesis that friends are more similar in proactive aggression than in reactive aggression with 185 fourth- to sixth-grade boys and examined interpersonal processes that may account for this similarity. Suggested that proactively aggressive boys tended to select proactively aggressive peers as friends; however, mutual influence…

States that aggression fuels assertiveness and contributes to zestful living, but it also leads to war, physical abuse, and interpersonal bruising. Of all our impulses, it is the most likely to be undervalued and repressed. Discusses the therapeutic usefulness of undoing this repression. (Author/MKA)

This follow-forward study examined whether behavioral groupings (hyperactivity, hyperactivity with aggression, or comparison), created when children were preschoolers, were associated with different outcomes 5 years later. Parents (N=37) completed the Child Behavior Checklist at the outcome assessment. Results indicated that early assessments of…

This article discusses the role alcohol frequently plays in instances of interpersonal violence and suggests implications for health education. Data on the extent of the problem are provided and research findings concerning the basic aggression-violence model and alcohol and aggression are reviewed. Recommendations to health educators include…

Followed the development of 57 women from childhood to adulthood and the development of their children from infancy through the early school years. The academic competence of the mothers, when they were children, was related to their children's academic competence. Correlations between measures of the aggression of the mothers, when they were…