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Losinski, Mickey; Maag, John W.; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Ryan, Joseph B. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2015
Structural behavioral assessment (SBA) involves a series of heuristic approaches similar to those used with functional behavioral assessment (FBA). It involves assessing contextual variables that precede the occurrence of a behavior. These variables have also been termed antecedents, setting events, or establishing operations. Once these variables…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Problems, Context Effect, Evaluation Methods
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Arthur, Michael W.; Brown, Eric C.; Briney, John S.; Hawkins, J. David; Abbott, Robert D.; Catalano, Richard F.; Becker, Linda; Langer, Michael; Mueller, Martin T. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: School administrators and teachers face difficult decisions about how best to use school resources to meet academic achievement goals. Many are hesitant to adopt prevention curricula that are not focused directly on academic achievement. Yet, some have hypothesized that prevention curricula can remove barriers to learning and, thus,…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Academic Achievement, Prevention, Barriers
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Suldo, Shannon M.; Gelley, Cheryl D.; Roth, Rachel A.; Bateman, Lisa P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
Modern definitions of complete mental health include both positive and negative indicators of psychological functioning. We examined the associations between peer relationships (victimization and receipt of prosocial acts) and multiple indicators of mental health that represent subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, positive and negative…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Peer Relationship, Antisocial Behavior, Prosocial Behavior
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Li, Li; Titsworth, Scott – American Journal of Distance Education, 2015
The current program of research included two studies that developed the Student Online Misbehaviors (SOMs) scale and explored relationships between the SOMs and various classroom communication processes and outcomes. The first study inductively developed initial SOM typologies and tested factor structure via an exploratory factor analysis.…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Hartley, Sigan L.; Schultz, Haley M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Little research has examined the support needs of mothers versus fathers of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We identified and compared the important and unmet support needs of mothers and fathers, and evaluated their association with family and child factors, within 73 married couples who had a child or adolescent…
Descriptors: Fathers, Mothers, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Long, Anna C. J.; McIver, Elise C.; Olinger, Rachel M.; Bolognino, Sarah J.; Renshaw, Tyler L. – Communique, 2015
Schools often need to implement evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in contexts and with client populations that differ from those present during intervention development and validation. Due to the differences in intervention conditions, schools inevitably make adaptations to interventions to be responsive or to operate within present constraints.…
Descriptors: Integrity, Intervention, Metacognition, Curriculum
Whisman, Andy – West Virginia Department of Education Office of Research, Accountability, and Data Governance, 2015
This report describes the occurrence of discipline referrals and corresponding interventions and consequences used by schools for harassment, intimidation, or bullying behaviors during the 2014-2015 school year. Using data entered into the West Virginia Education Information System (WVEIS), we conducted two sets of analyses--one focusing on…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Bullying, Behavior Problems, Discipline
Sinclair, Andrea; Deatz, Richard; Johnston-Fisher, Jessica – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2015
The overall purpose of the research studies described in this report was to investigate the quality of the administration of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment during its first operational year (2014-2015). Findings from these studies can be used to identify threats to the validity of PARCC test…
Descriptors: Testing, Achievement Tests, Administrators, Readiness
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Jones, Leah; Gold, Eluned; Totsika, Vasiliki; Hastings, Richard P.; Jones, Mariel; Griffiths, Annee; Silverton, Sarah – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2018
Parents of children with intellectual disabilities and/or autism have been shown to experience higher levels of distress than other parents. Despite such data having been available for several decades, the evidence base for psychological interventions to support parental well-being is small. Recent data suggest that both mindfulness and acceptance…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Parent Education, Special Schools, Autism
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
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Giallo, Rebecca; Gartland, Deirdre; Woolhouse, Hannah; Mensah, Fiona; Westrupp, Elizabeth; Nicholson, Jan; Brown, Stephanie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The deleterious effects of maternal depression on child emotional and behavioral development are well documented, yet many children exposed to maternal depression experience positive outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify psychosocial factors associated with the emotional-behavioral resilience of four-year-old children of first-time…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Preschool Children, Mothers, Depression (Psychology)
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Wild, Gwen; Steeley, Sherry L. – International Journal of Special Education, 2018
This study examines the impact of a general education classroom-based sensory program for students exhibiting sensory processing differences in the school environment. Students were divided by age and degree of sensory needs between control and experimental groups, with teachers of students in the experimental group implementing the recommended…
Descriptors: Sensory Training, Perceptual Impairments, Intervention, Sensory Experience
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Adams, Dawn; Handley, Louise; Simkiss, Doug; Walls, Emily; Jones, Alison; Knapp, Martin; Romeo, Renee; Oliver, Chris – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2018
Background: Challenging behaviours are frequently shown by children with an intellectual disability. This study documents service use within this population and explores its relationship with challenging behaviours and child and parent characteristics.Method Forty-nine mothers of young children with an intellectual disability or global…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Health Services, Behavior Problems, Costs
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Davies, Patrick T.; Coe, Jesse L.; Hentges, Rochelle F.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Ripple, Michael T. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
This study examined children's attention biases to negative emotional stimuli as mediators of associations between interparental hostility and children's externalizing symptoms. Participants included 243 children (M[subscript age] = 4.60 years) and their parents and teachers across three annual measurement occasions. Cross-lagged latent change…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Prediction, Child Behavior
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Mala, V. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2018
Adolescence is the period between childhood and adulthood and the most important stage of a human being. Adolescence is a period of stress and storm. Students cannot adjust with their new-fangled role in life. They can have Emotional, Mental, Behavioural, and Adjustment problems known as "disorders". Behavioural patterns that appear in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Physical Activities, Behavior Patterns, Sexuality
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