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Direct linkHoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005
Researchers are analyzing the root causes for the universal problem of chronic academic procrastination, which is believed to raise student's anxiety and sinks their self-esteem. Colleges of Belgium, Canada, and Netherlands have begun to develop counseling programs that draw on cognitive and behavioral research to help students lessen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Self Esteem
Download full textMackenzie, Nancy – Alberta Education, 2008
Drawing on current research and best practices, this three-part resource, "Supporting Positive Behaviour in Alberta Schools," provides information, strategies, stories from schools and sample tools for systematically teaching, supporting and reinforcing positive behaviour. This integrated system of school-wide, classroom management, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, School Culture, Student Diversity, Educational Change
McDonald, Linda; McDonald, Stewart – 1991
This book chapter describes a program of the Two Hills Regional Resource Centre (THRRC), which provides support services to 39 towns in northeastern Alberta. The program supports individuals with severely challenging behaviors (such as self-abuse, aggression, destructiveness, and noncompliance) so that they will be able to live and work in their…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLadouceur, Robert; Armstrong, Jean – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1983
Describes and evaluates a multifaceted behavioral treatment program designed to increase academic performance (grades). Assigned high school students to one of four groups. Mathematics, French, and general point average were assessed four times during the academic year. Results showed behavioral intervention was efficient on the three measures…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Objectives
Peer reviewedMiller, Peter J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1981
A study of 520 prospective and practicing teachers indicated that many showed no strong orientation or affiliation in their personal educational beliefs and that those who did were attracted mainly to behaviourism or romanticism. Many considered current educational practice as either control-oriented or affiliated with behaviourism. (CM)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Educational Attitudes, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
Marshall, W. L.; Christie, M. M. – Canadian Counsellor, 1982
Compared the relative effectiveness of three self-management procedures in enhancing self-esteem. Results indicated that it is possible to enhance reported self-esteem by self-management procedures and that cueing effects are as important as reinforcing effects. (KMF)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Piccinin, Serge; And Others – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1992
Investigated effect of cognitive-behavioral treatment adherence intervention in course of criticism skill group training program. Assigned 86 participants to treatment condition with or without adherence intervention or to control. Results suggest that adherence activities facilitated arousal optimal to greater program attendance and outcome gains…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, College Students, Criticism
Hiebert, Bryan; Carlyle, Steve – School Guidance Worker, 1982
Describes a class contingency management program designed to increase class on-task behavior and cooperation while decreasing class disruptiveness, peer denigration, complaining, and interference with teacher instruction. Results indicated the program accomplished immediate and rapid increases in disruption-free instructional time. (RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedMcNeilly, Russell A.; Yorke, Charles – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1990
Assigned 48 junior high school students screened for unassertive school behavior to social skills training groups which included modeling only, instructions only, modeling and instructions, and control. Found significant improvements in self-reported assertion and in assertive school behavior for training groups. Trained students were able to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring
Firestone, Philip; And Others – 1977
This report describes an attempt to implement a cost-effective social learning intervention program for home use in which behavior modification techniques were taught to parents of 12 conduct-problem children (ages between 3 and 11 years) by psychologists at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Mother and father and mothers-only treatment…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales
Wells, Karen C.; Chi, Terry C.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Pfiffner, Linda; Nebel-Schwalm, Marie; Owens, Elizabeth B.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Abikoff, Howard B.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hoza, Betsy; Jensen, Peter S.; March, John; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Pelham, William E.; Severe, Joanne B.; Swanson, James; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wigal, Timothy – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The present study examined treatment outcomes for objectively measured parenting behavior in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Five hundred seventy-nine ethnically and socioeconomically diverse children with ADHD-combined type (ages 7.0-9.9 years) and their parent(s) were recruited …
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Outcomes of Treatment
Antaya-Moore, Dana – Alberta Education, 2008
Drawing on current research and best practices, this second part of the three-part resource, "Supporting Positive Behaviour in Alberta Schools," provides information and strategies for systematically teaching, supporting and reinforcing positive behaviour in the classroom. A proactive approach to classroom management is designed to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
Elfert, Miriam; Mirenda, Pat – Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2006
This study examined the experiences of 65 behavior interventionists (BIs) who provide 1:1 home-based instruction to children with autism in two Canadian provinces. Dependent variables included occupational stress; the relationships among stress, strain, and coping; the relationship between stress and the characteristics of both challenging…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Behavior Modification, Intervention, Child Behavior
Lipman, Ellen L.; Boyle, Michael H.; Cunningham, Charles; Kenny, Meghan; Sniderman, Carrie; Duku, Eric; Mills, Brenda; Evans, Peter; Waymouth, Marjorie – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: There are few well-evaluated uncomplicated community-based interventions for childhood aggression. The authors assess the impact of a community-based anger management group on child aggressive behaviors, using a randomized, controlled trial (RCT). Method: Families with children 7 to 11 years old were recruited through advertisements and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Intervention, Effect Size
Tamaki, Shelley – 1994
Teachers often spend more time in the classroom dealing with disruptions and conflict than they do teaching. This report describes a study (n=18) that was conducted to assess the effects of a school-based group treatment program on social skills development and anger management for students with behavior problems in an urban Saskatchewan (Canada)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anger, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
