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McDonald, Walter J. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2005
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) recognizes the need for continuing medical education (CME) reform and intends to be actively engaged in that process. While recognizing that CME reform must involve many organizations, the CMSS and particularly the 23 societies that make up the CMSS are in a position to affect many of the needed…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Needs Assessment, Curriculum Development, Patients
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Ehntholt, Kimberly A.; Yule, William – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Increasingly clinicians are being asked to assess and treat young refugees, who have experienced traumatic events due to war and organised violence. However, evidence-based guidance remains scarce. Method: Published studies on the mental health difficulties of refugee children and adolescents, associated risk and protective factors, as…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health, Holistic Approach
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Efta-Breitbach, Jill; Freeman, Kurt A. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2004
Juvenile sexual offending is increasingly being recognized as a serious crime among youth. The prevalence of sexual offending and sexual reoffending suggests that many juvenile sex offenders (JSOs) may repeat their offending behaviors if not treated. However, clinical trials evaluating specific interventions are virtually nonexistent. Instead, the…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Juvenile Justice, Crime, Incidence
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Moore, Dennis W.; Anderson, Angelika; Kumar, Koshila – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2005
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of an instructional adaptation (reduction of task duration) on off-task behavior in a general education classroom. The intervention was chosen following a functional behavioral assessment, which suggested that much of the off-task behavior was escape-maintained, and a curriculum-based assessment,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Curriculum Based Assessment, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Time on Task
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Moulds, Michelle L.; Bryant, Richard A. – Clinical Psychologist, 2005
The dissociative reactions in acute stress disorder purportedly impede encoding and organization of traumatic memories and consequently impair the individual's ability to retrieve trauma-related details. A qualitative examination was conducted on trauma narratives of individuals with acute stress disorder (N = 15) prior to cognitive behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Therapy, Memory
Henggeler, Scott W.; Schoenwald, Sonja K.; Borduin, Charles M.; Rowland, Melisa D.; Cunningham, Phillippe B. – 1998
Antisocial behavior can be reduced if services focus on changing the known determinants of behavior problems in the natural environments in which children and families live. The development of multisystemic treatment (MST) gives mental health professionals a powerful new tool for confronting antisocial behavior in children and adolescents,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification
Williams, Bruce W. – 1992
This report summarizes in-home behavioral interventions carried out with 18 individuals (ages 3 to 43) with developmental disabilities in the San Diego and North Los Angeles County Regional Centers during 1990-1991. The report focuses on client characteristics, problems that were addressed, intervention procedures used, and results. The paper…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Child Rearing, Children
Lochman, John E.; And Others – 1987
To reduce aggressive children's behavior problems and to reduce their high risk status for later major difficulties, an Anger Coping intervention based on cognitive behavioral techniques was developed (Lochman, Nelson, and Sims, 1981). Despite promising outcomes, testing showed not all children improved with this program. This study compared the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anger, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Center, David; Kemp, Dawn – 1999
This report examines the development of Conduct Disorder (CD) in children and adolescents from the perspective of Hans Eysenck's bio-social theory of personality. The theory views personality as a product of the interaction of temperament and socialization. Eysenck's three-factor model of personality is comprised of Extroversion (E), Neuroticism…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification
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Timmer, Susan G.; Urquiza, Anthony J.; Herschell, Amy D.; McGrath, Jean M.; Zebell, Nancy M.; Porter, Alissa L.; Vargas, Eric C. – Child Welfare, 2006
One of the more serious problems faced by child welfare services involves the management of children with serious behavioral and mental health problems. Aggressive and defiant foster children are more likely to have multiple foster care placements, require extraordinary social services resources, and have poor short- and long-term mental health…
Descriptors: Social Services, Mental Health, Child Abuse, Foster Care
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Goldsmith, Tina R.; LeBlanc, Linda A. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2004
A growing number of studies have investigated diverse applications of technology-based interventions with children with autism. The purpose of this paper is to review the growing empirical support for the efficacy of technology-based interventions with children with autism and to recommend future directions for research. This review will focus on…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Simulation, Autism, Behavior Modification
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Petrosino, Anthony; Farrington, David P.; Sherman, Lawrence W. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
The Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group was inaugurated in 2000 to prepare, update, and disseminate systematic reviews on what works to reduce crime or improve justice. After providing a brief description of a systematic review and the origins of the Campbell Collaboration, this paper provides an overview of the first 36 months of the…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Evidence, Public Policy, International Organizations
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Sanders, Matthew R.; Pidgeon, Aileen M.; Gravestock, Fred; Connors, Mark D.; Brown, Samantha; Young, Ross W. – Behavior Therapy, 2004
Ninety-eight parents experiencing significant difficulties in managing their own anger in their interactions with their preschool-aged children were randomly assigned either to an enhanced group-administered behavioral family intervention program based on the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program that incorporated attributional retraining and anger…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Abuse, Self Efficacy, Child Rearing
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Schwartz, Jonathan P.; Waldo, Michael – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2003
An intervention was created to help resolve gender role conflicts among men attending partner abuse prevention groups. The experimental intervention was conducted in two groups (7 men in each group) over the course of 10 weeks. The groups engaged in gender role conflict resolution interventions addressing conflicts between work and family…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Prevention, Intervention, Experimental Groups
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Williams, Susan K.; Scahill, Lawrence; Vitiello, Benedetto; Aman, Michael G.; Arnold, L. Eugene; McDougle, Christopher J.; McCracken, James T.; Tierney, Elaine; Ritz, Louise; Posey, David J.; Swiezy, Naomi B.; Hollway, Jill; Cronin, Pegeen; Ghuman, Jaswinder; Wheeler, Courtney; Cicchetti, Domenic; Sparrow, Sara – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To evaluate the impact of risperidone on adaptive behavior in children with autistic disorder who have serious behavior problems and to examine different methods of scoring the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales to measure change. Method: Forty-eight children (5 years to 16 years, 5 months) who showed behavioral improvement during acute…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Behavior Problems, Socialization, Autism
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