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Personality, Stress, and Coping: Implications for Education. Research on Stress and Coping in Education
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Reevy, Gretchen M., Ed.; Frydenberg, Erica, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Nearly all chapters in this volume are contemporary original research on personality, stress, and coping in educational contexts. The research spans primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Research participants are students and teachers. The volume brings together contributions from the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Scotland, and…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, Bullying, Self Efficacy
Autism: Clinical and Research Issues.
Accardo, Pasquale J., Ed.; Magnusen, Christy, Ed.; Capute, Arnold J., Ed. – 2000
This text examines the characteristics that define autism: impairments in communication; abnormal social development; and clinically significant odd behaviors. Specific chapters include: (1) Neural Mechanisms in Autism (Andrew W. Zimmerman and Barry Gordon); (2) Epidemiology of Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Current…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Changing Family Lifestyles: Their Effect on Children.
Quisenberry, James D., Ed.; And Others – 1982
This collection of 13 articles reprinted from the journal "Childhood Education" is organized into three sections: (1) Families: Structure, Status, and Stresses; (2) Parenting; and (3) Schools and the Family. The first section consists of six articles dealing with issues surrounding the changing family and early childhood education,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Divorce, Early Childhood Education, Family Life
When There is a Crisis: Helping Children Cope with Change.
Long, Sandra M., Ed.; Batchelor, Barbara, Ed. – 1979
This collection of 11 articles focuses on various kinds of change that children face, and ways that adults can help nurture the development of coping strategies. Situations of change covered are crises of death, divorce, imprisonment, or hospitalization of family members, new environments such as entering school, the birth of a new sibling, and…
Descriptors: Change, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children
Youth at Risk: A Resource for Counselors, Teachers and Parents. Part 2. Examining the Causes.
Palmo, Artis J.; And Others – 1989
This document consists of Part 2 of a book of readings on at-risk youth designed to provide information and strategies for counselors, teachers, parents, administrators, social workers, and others who work with youth at risk. Part 2 contains five readings on causal factors related to at-risk behaviors. "The Harmful Effects of Dysfunctional Family…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Attribution Theory
African American Males. A Critical Link in the African American Family.
Jones, Dionne J., Ed. – 1994
African Americans are experiencing extreme stress in the United States, and African-American males appear to suffer the most. The chapters in this volume examine some of the issues confronting African-American men today. They include: (1) "Introduction" (Dionne J. Jones); (2) "Reaffirming Young African American Males: Mentoring and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Women and the Family. Women in the Caribbean Project, Volume 2.
Massiah, Joycelin, Ed. – 1982
One in a series of documents emanating from a three-year project concerned with the role of women in the English-speaking Caribbean, this collection of papers examines family life and the domestic domain. The overall objectives of the project are to establish in the region a data base for teaching, research, and planning purposes and to develop…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Emotional Problems, Family Characteristics, Family Environment
Middle School Research. Selected Studies 1982.
Erb, Thomas Owen, Ed. – 1982
This sixth collection of research on middle schools is divided into three sections. Section I comprises five research articles, each with a practitioner's reaction discussing the article's implications for practice and suggesting further research. The articles include "Perceptual Styles of Pupils in Grades 5 through 8," by Grover…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Biofeedback, Cognitive Style, Discipline Problems