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Personal Characteristics of Troubled Adolescents in Residential Care
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Azarova, Elena A.; Basyuk, Victor S.; Vikhtodenko, Alexander V.; Zholudeva, Svetlana V. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Personal characteristics of troubled adolescents are affected by psychological deprivation, which contributes to the manifestation of deviant and delinquent behavior in individuals. Aim: This study comprehensively examines structural units of self-consciousness, higher mental functions, and the emotional sphere of troubled adolescents…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Residential Programs
Effects of Enhanced Psychological Test Feedback on Treatment Outcome: Therapeutic Implications of the Barnum Effect.
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Halperin, Keith M.; Snyder, C.R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Ascertained whether diagnostic feedback had a positive influence on treatment outcome. Snake-fearful females took psychological tests and were randomly assigned to treatment conditions. The greatest therapeutic improvement resulted for the enhanced-personality-feedback-with-treatment group as compared to the treatment-only group. The…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Feedback
Special Parent, Special Child: Practical Pointers for Parenting Handicapped Children. Volume 2, Nos. 1-6, January-December 1986.
Murphy, Linda, Ed.; DellaCorte, Suzanne, Ed. – Special Parent/Special Child, 1986
The six 1986 issues of this newsletter for parents of handicapped children contain lead articles with the following titles: "Understanding Psychological Tests" (includes intelligence tests, achievement tests, personality tests and parental do's and don'ts); "Sex Education for the Special Person" (e.g., purpose of sex education, parental do's and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Child Rearing, Disabilities, Learning Activities
Social Anxiety in Stuttering: Measuring Negative Social Expectancies
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Messenger, Michelle; Onslow, Mark; Packman, Ann; Menzies, Ross – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2004
Much research has suggested that those who stutter are likely to be anxious. However, to date, little research on this topic has addressed the role of expectancies of harm in anxiety, which is a central construct of anxiety in modern clinical psychology. There are good reasons to believe that the anxiety of those who stutter is related to…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Behavior Modification, Effect Size, Clinical Psychology
Management of the Child with an Attention Disorder in the School Setting.
Book, Robert M. – 1983
This guide describes a management system for dealing with hyperactive, disruptive children within the classroom setting. The first step in the process involves a 45-minute classroom observation of the referred child by the psychologist. The psychologist collects frequency and duration baseline data on four classes of behavior: off task, talking…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies
Socially Withdrawn Children: A Review.
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Brulle, Andrew R.; McIntyre, Thomas C. – 1982
Literature on seriously emotionally disturbed children who are socially withdrawn is reviewed, with particular attention given to definitions, identification, etiology, importance of treatment, and treatment procedures. Researchers' attempts to define and categorize social withdrawal are reviewed, and it is suggested that a child's behavior be…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Biological Influences