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Direct linkMcElroy, Erika M.; Rodriguez, Christina M. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: Utilizing the conceptual framework of the Social Information Processing (SIP) model ([Milner, 1993] and [Milner, 2000]), associations between cognitive risk factors and child physical abuse risk and maladaptive discipline style and practices were examined in an at-risk population. Methods: Seventy-three mothers of 5-12-year-old…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Locus of Control, Behavior Problems, Discipline
Baghdadli, A.; Picot, M. C.; Pry, R.; Michelon, C.; Burzstejn, C.; Lazartigues, A.; Aussilloux, C. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Aim: To explore the factors related to the outcome of self-injurious behaviour (SIB) in children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). Method: Children with PDD were assessed on individual and environmental variables at time 1 and 3 years later. A questionnaire about the presence or absence of SIB was also administered at both times in…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Autism, At Risk Persons, Self Destructive Behavior
Chamberlain, Patricia; Price, Joseph; Reid, John; Landsverk, John – Child Welfare, 2008
Most foster parents in the United States are required to participate in training, yet no empirical support exists for the training's effectiveness. During the past two decades, high-quality clinical trials have documented that parent management training (PMT) programs produce positive outcomes for children and families in clinical and school…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Family Relationship, Foster Care, Parent Education
Wherry, Jeffrey N.; Graves, Lauren E.; Rhodes King, Heidi M. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2008
The convergent validity of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC) was examined with a sample of 172 sexually abused outpatient treatment-seeking children and their caregivers. The TSCYC evidenced good convergent validity with other parent ratings (e.g., the Child Behavior Checklist, Child Sexual Behavior Inventory, and the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Caregivers
Franklin, Cynthia; Moore, Kelly; Hopson, Laura – Children & Schools, 2008
This study evaluated the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy with children who have classroom-related behavior problems within a school setting. Five to seven sessions of solution-focused brief therapy services were provided to 67 children, identified by school faculty and staff as needing assistance in solving behavior problems.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Effect Size, Psychotherapy
Lahey, Benjamin B.; Applegate, Brooks; Chronis, Andrea M.; Jones, Heather A.; Williams, Stephanie Hall; Loney, Jan; Waldman, Irwin D. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
Lahey and Waldman proposed a developmental propensity model in which three dimensions of children's emotional dispositions are hypothesized to transact with the environment to influence risk for conduct disorder, heterogeneity in conduct disorder, and comorbidity with other disorders. To prepare for future tests of this model, a new measure of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Psychopathology, Child Behavior, Factor Analysis
Powell, Lesley; Gilchrist, Mollie; Stapley, Jacqueline – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2008
This study reports on an intervention involving massage, yoga and relaxation delivered to young children with identified emotional and behavioural difficulties, and at risk of exclusion. Children (n = 126) were invited by the head teacher to participate in the Self-discovery Programme (involving massage, yoga, breath work and relaxation) with…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Intervention, Emotional Disturbances, Relaxation Training
Download full textBlachman, Dara; Laughlin, Lynda; Lukacs, Susan; Pastor, Patricia; Howie, LaJeana; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Baum, Katrina; Lopez, Marsha; Jekielek, Susan; Nord, Mark; Morisi, Teri; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Colpe, Lisa; Fungwe, Thomas; Ghandour, Reem – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2009
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being" provides annual updates on the well-being of children and families in the United States across a range of domains. A more detailed report alternates every other year with a condensed version that highlights selected indicators. This year, the Forum is publishing the full report…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Well Being, Social Environment, Physical Environment
Cohen, Jeremy S.; Mendez, Julia L. – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: This study examined the stability of preschoolers' peer play behavior across the school year and the relations between emotion regulation, receptive vocabulary, and the trajectory of social competence deficits. Participants were 331 preschool children attending Head Start; they were primarily African American and from a low-SES…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Adjustment (to Environment), Receptive Language
Bachman, Heather J.; Coley, Rebekah Levine; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
The present study investigated the association of mothers' marriage and changes in young adolescents' cognitive and socioemotional development and changes in family processes. Analyses employed longitudinal data from the "Three-City Study" to track maternal partnerships for 860 low-income adolescents (10-14 years-old in Wave 1) across a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Marriage, Early Adolescents, Cognitive Development
Lohaus, Arnold; Vierhaus, Marc; Ball, Juliane – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
This study addresses the development of health-related behavior during childhood and adolescence and the protective influence of an authoritative parenting style. The study is based on two samples followed from Grades 2 through 5 and from Grades 4 through 7. The first sample consisted of 432 second graders with a mean age of 7.9 years at the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Parenting Styles, Health Behavior, Child Rearing
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Rose, Bobbie, Ed.; Leonard, Victoria, Ed.; Gendell, Mara, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2007
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Child Behavior
Meece, Darrell W.; Colwell, Malinda J.; Mize, Jacquelyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
Children's feelings and beliefs about peer relationships were examined as a possible mediator between mothers' positive and negative emotional framing and children's (n = 46) behavior with peers. Mothers' emotion framing was assessed as they and their young children read a picture book depicting emotionally-laden content, but no printed text.…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Social Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Self Concept
Rakoczy, Hannes – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2007
Playing games, particularly pretense games, is one of the areas where young children first enter into collective, conventional practices. This chapter reviews recent empirical data in support of this claim and explores the idea that games present a cradle for children's growing into societal and institutional life more generally. (Contains 2…
Descriptors: Play, Games, Group Behavior, Preschool Children
Castelli, Luigi; Carraro, Luciana; Tomelleri, Silvia; Amari, Antonella – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
In this study, in which 4-7-year-olds participated (N = 58), we analysed the relationship between White children's racial attitudes and their perceptions of parental expectations and racial attitudes. Overall, the children showed a strong in-group preference in their choice of playmates and in the attribution of positive and negative traits to…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Mothers, Fathers, Child Behavior
