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Children Now, 2009
Despite economic and social challenges facing California, Children Now advocates that the foundation of state vitality and well-being is a healthy, educated and skilled population, and urges efficient investments in children. State leadership is called upon to: (1) Ensure every child has affordable health insurance coverage; (2) Invest earlier in…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Early Childhood Education, Access to Health Care
Bub, Kristen L. – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
Social and behavioral problems can interfere with a child's acquisition of age-appropriate skills, which may lead to antisocial behavior in adolescence and adulthood. Thus, determining how best to support positive skills during early childhood is critical. Using data from the first three phases of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Antisocial Behavior, Effect Size, Grade 3
Sarimski, Klaus – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Developmental science integrates concepts from developmental medicine, human genetics, developmental and clinical psychology to understand behavioural adjustment and maladjustment in children, adolescents and adults as a product of the transactions between the child, its biological organization and its social experience. Put into such a…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Children, Intellectual Disability, Biology
Malouff, John M.; Schutte, Nicola S. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2007
This book provides descriptions of 76 engaging activities that can be used to teach children, adolescents, and adults valuable social, emotional, and problem-solving skills. Some of the skills taught include identifying and expressing one's own emotions, identifying emotions in others, coping with stressors, making and keeping friends, setting…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Problem Solving, Coping, Interpersonal Competence
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Positive Action," a K-12 program, aims to promote character development, academic achievement, and social-emotional skills and to reduce disruptive and problem behavior. The program is based on the philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you think and do positive actions, and there is always a positive way to do everything.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis
Sanders, Tracey – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2007
This paper describes a nurture group pilot project that took place in three schools in Hampshire. Results suggested that children in the nurture groups made significant social and emotional gains after attending a group. These gains were recognised by the children themselves and their parents. They were also generalised into the classroom.…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Behavior Problems, Group Counseling, Interpersonal Competence
Koster, Marloes; Pijl, Sip Jan; van Houten, Els; Nakken, Han – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2007
Since August 2003, pupils with auditory, communicative, motor, mental or multiple disabilities, as well as severe behavioural/emotional problems, in The Netherlands have been entitled to receive a pupil-bound budget when attending a mainstream school. The first experiences with this budget in regular Dutch primary schools are described in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Development, Social Development, Questionnaires
Mavroveli, Stella; Petrides, K. V.; Rieffe, Carolien; Bakker, Femke – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
The trait emotional intelligence (trait EI or trait emotional self-efficacy) framework provides comprehensive coverage of emotion-related self-perceptions and dispositions. In this study, we investigated the relationship between trait EI and four distinct socioemotional criteria on a sample of Dutch adolescents (N = 282; 136 girls, 146 boys; mean…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Adolescents
Fidler, Deborah J.; Nadel, Lynn – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2007
Of the recent advances in education-related research in Down syndrome, the characterization of the Down syndrome behavioral phenotype has become a potentially critical tool for shaping education and intervention in this population. This article briefly reviews the literature on brain-behavior connections in Down syndrome and identifies aspects of…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Intervention, Down Syndrome, Special Education
Mann, Tammy; Steward, Marva; Eggbeer, Linda; Norton, Dolores – Zero to Three, 2007
The Executive Committee at "ZERO TO THREE" created a Task Force on Culture and Development to deepen our understanding of the role of culture in child development and to guide the organization through a self-assessment process to better understand how staff and board members address the issue of culture in their work. The task force's literature…
Descriptors: African Americans, Emotional Development, Cultural Influences, Literature Reviews
Prakash, Kavita; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore correlates of childhood social-withdrawal in India. Participants were n = 929 elementary school-aged children in New Delhi. Children completed peer nominations of social-withdrawal, aggression, and sociometric status, as well as self-report measures of loneliness and depressive symptoms. Teachers rated…
Descriptors: Indians, Sociometric Techniques, Peer Relationship, Student Adjustment
Dunst, Carl J,; Raab, Melinda; Trivette, Carol M.; Parkey, Cindy; Gatens, Mary; Wilson, Linda L.; French, Jennie; Hamby, Deborah W. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2007
Findings from two studies of 42 children with profound developmental delays (26 males and 15 females) using systematic and intense response-contingent learning opportunities interventions are reported. Response-contingent learning games were used to promote the participants' use of behavior that either produced environmental consequences or…
Descriptors: Games, Developmental Delays, Behavior Patterns, Early Intervention
Kruger, Lenette; Prinsloo, Heila – South African Journal of Education, 2008
Middle adolescents are exposed to environments riddled with potential adversities which pervade their lives, adding to the challenges inherent in their developmental stage. They spend a significant time in school and therefore it is an appropriate context to foster, enhance, and develop emotional, social, and cognitive resilience competencies.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Resilience (Psychology), Adolescent Development, Emotional Development
Schippers, Margriet – Online Submission, 2008
As yet little research into the perspectives of Chinese students studying in mainland China's Higher Education Institutions has been undertaken. This paper explores the issue of students' support needs and presents the findings of a study carried out in 2005-2007 at a public university in North East China. The Action Research method used…
Descriptors: Career Development, Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Action Research
Byers, Richard; Davies, Jill; Fergusson, Ann; Marvin, Claire – Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (NJ1), 2008
"What about us?" was a participative action research project promoting the emotional well-being of young people with learning difficulties in inclusive secondary schools and colleges. The project began by reviewing the impact of inclusion on the emotional well-being and personal and social development of young people with learning…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Educational Needs, Action Research, Mental Retardation

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