Health-Promoting School (HPS) interventions aim to reduce bullying and violence via curriculum, environmental and family/community-engagement components. Despite evidence of their effectiveness, factors influencing the implementation of such interventions are poorly understood. This systematic review aims to examine such factors by assessing…

Discusses the role of the school psychologist as a consultant in the evaluation and restructuring of effective student discipline procedures and as a provider of direct intervention services to high-risk youth. Urges school psychologists to bring a prevention focus and their insight into the principles of learning and development to the design of…

In light of a current movement in England and Wales toward integrating severely retarded students with those having more moderate learning difficulties, results of a survey are reported whose purpose was to identify numbers and characteristics of severely retarded students who exhibit disruptive challenging behaviors, the type of provisions…