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Jiaxin Chen – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Life education is an essential element of suicide prevention in colleges. However, the existing practice of life education in China may be insufficient to match the new spectrum of students' knowledge needs. The study exemplified the participants' responses to common suicide myths with a 3-year follow-up investigation (Study 1), and the optimal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Bias
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Skinner, Christopher H.; Bennett, Jade; Richardson, Robert; Scott, Katie; Wheat, Laura S.; Martinez, James – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
School psychologists have been involved with developing and installing individual contingencies designed to remedy individual students' academic deficits. Group-oriented contingencies can be applied to broader efforts designed to prevent learning problems class-wide. Independent group-oriented rewards are frequently used in school settings to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Standards, Learning Problems, Learning Processes
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Demers, Joseph A.; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
Most U.S. children and adults use computers and the Internet on a daily basis. The pervasiveness of electronic communication in a variety of contexts, including home and school, raises ethical and legal concerns for school psychologists and those in related fields of practice, because of the risks to privacy and confidentiality, boundaries,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, School Psychologists, Confidentiality, Risk
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Sadeh, Shanna; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
In this article, we discuss conflict between law and science relative to the presumption in special education law that multidisciplinary teams and others identify the causes of problems giving rise to special education needs. First, we explain eligibility criteria, highlighting ambiguities therein and why criteria constitute a mandate for causal…
Descriptors: Ethics, Legal Problems, Guidelines, Educational Policy
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Dailor, A. Nichole; Jacob, Susan – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
Practitioner-members of the National Association of School Psychologists (N = 208) completed questionnaires regarding their ethics training, preparedness, the types of ethical transgressions and dilemmas encountered in the previous year, and the strategies used to solve problems. Respondents who received multilevel training in ethics (ethics…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, School Psychologists, Questionnaires, Ethics
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Crespi, Tony D. – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
School psychologists are interested in providing effective and efficient direct services to children. With a wide spectrum of psychological problems impacting children, group counseling represents one viable and valuable intervention. Given the complexity of group counseling, many schools and school psychologists are interested in legal and…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Legal Problems, School Psychologists, Mental Health
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Fan, Weihua; Williams, Cathy M.; Corkin, Danya Marie – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
This multilevel study examines the extent to which individual- and school-level variables are predictive of three aspects of students' perceived school climate (order, safety, and discipline; fairness and clarity of school rules; and teacher-student relationship) by using a nationally representative sample. A wide range of social and academic risk…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Catholic Schools, Student Attitudes, Risk
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Roberts, Holly J.; Floress, Margaret T.; Ellis, Cynthia R. – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
The number of children taking psychotropic medications has dramatically increased in recent years. These children typically take medication during school hours, thereby making the school setting an optimal venue in which evaluate the effectiveness of medications. Given their training in data-based decision making, intervention, and assessment,…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Pharmacology, School Psychology, Ethics
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O'Leary, Susan G.; O'Leary, K. Daniel – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
In order to foster the responsible use of behavior modification procedures in the schools on a practical as well as a research basis, this article discusses ethical issues being considered by researchers and the involved public. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Techniques