Teaching Multiethnic Urban Adolescents How To Enhance Their Competencies: Effects of a Middle School Primary Prevention Program on Adaptation.

Ayotte, Violaine; Saucier, Jean-Francois; Bowen, Francois; Laurendeau, Marie-Claire; Fournier, Michel; Blais, Jean-Guy

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ERIC Number: EJ674222

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Teaching Multiethnic Urban Adolescents How To Enhance Their Competencies: Effects of a Middle School Primary Prevention Program on Adaptation.

Ayotte, Violaine; Saucier, Jean-Francois; Bowen, Francois; Laurendeau, Marie-Claire; Fournier, Michel; Blais, Jean-Guy

Journal of Primary Prevention, v24 n1 p7-23 Fall 2003

Evaluates a program that promoted adaptation of students in their first year of secondary school. The program focused on developing healthy self-perceptions, and cognitive, affective and behavioral skills. Analyses revealed the predicted positive effects of the program on psychological and social outcomes. Findings underline the need to address the specific coping competencies of students more at-risk. (Contains 42 references and 1 table.) (GCP)

Descriptors: Coping, High Risk Students, Middle Schools, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Psychological Patterns, Secondary Education, Self Concept, Student Adjustment, Student Development, Thinking Skills, Urban Schools

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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