ERIC Number: ED377662
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 224
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ISBN: ISBN-0-86431-165-6
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Widening Horizons: New Challenges, Directions and Achievements: Selected Papers from the National Conference on Behaviour Management and Behaviour Change of Children and Youth with Emotional and/or Behaviour Problems (6th, Adelaide, South Australia, 1994).
Tainsh, Mark, Ed.; Izard, John, Ed.
This collection of 19 papers offers an Australian perspective on behavior management and behavior change of children and youth with emotional and/or behavior problems. Papers are presented in two sections: national and regional perspectives, and programs and strategies for different contexts. Titles and authors include: "An Evaluation of Strategies and Methods for Addressing Problems of Peer Abuse in Schools" (Ken Rigby); "Meeting the Needs of Adolescents with Conduct Disorders" (Robert Conway); "Suspension Support for Children and Youth with Behaviour Problems" (Jean Jenkin); "Behaviour Problems: School Exclusions and School Non-Attendance" (David Evans and John Gardner); "Skillstreaming in Early Childhood" (Wendy Brown and Susanna Richardson); "Stop and Think Learning: Motivating Learning in Social Groups and Individuals" (Lindy Petersen); "Using Non-Aversive Strategies in the Classroom" (Barbara Ryan); "Prolific Partnership: In Praise of Parent Participation" (Nicklin Team); "Pathways for Change" (Maureen Gilbert and Mary McInnes); "RAPT Reviewed: Education in a Wider Context" (RAPT Team); "Out of the Bush, into the Wilderness" (Ray Handley); "Operation Flinders: New Horizons" (Pamela Murray-White); "From Early Intervention to Successful Mainschool Reintegration: The Farm School Experience" (Leigh Deckert); "Responding to Gambits that Children Use To Disrupt Classrooms" (Jerry Olsen); "Solution Focused Interventions in Schools" (Stephen Cornelissen and Sean Rafferty); "Past, Present, Future: Review and Reform Program: The Power of Evidence" (Janice Flaherty); "Boys and Relationships: A Developmental Strategy for Violence Prevention" (David Shores and Jenny Kernich); "Using Art and Craft To Effect Change with Difficult Kids" (Mary Jackson); "Peer Mediation: In a Primary School" (Angela Heuchan and Glenda Young). (Some papers contain references.) (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Emotional Problems, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Motivation Techniques, Parent Participation, Peer Relationship, Prevention, Program Development, Suspension, Violence
Australian Council for Educational Research Limited, 19 Prospect Hill Rd., Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria 3124, Australia ($34.95).
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Australian Council for Educational Research, Melbourne.
Identifiers - Location: Australia
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