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A School-Based Expressive Writing Intervention for At-Risk Urban Adolescents' Aggressive Behavior and Emotional Lability
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Kliewer, Wendy; Lepore, Stephen J.; Farrell, Albert D.; Allison, Kevin W.; Meyer, Aleta L.; Sullivan, Terri N.; Greene, Anne Y. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2011
This school-based randomized controlled trial tested the efficacy of 2 expressive writing interventions among youth living in high-violence urban neighborhoods. Seventeen classrooms (n = 258 seventh graders; 55% female; 91% African American/Black) from 3 public schools were randomized to 3 conditions in which they wrote 8 times about a…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Aggression, Family Structure, Expressive Language
Community Violence Exposure, Threat Appraisal, and Adjustment in Adolescents
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Kliewer, Wendy; Sullivan, Terri N. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
Validity data are presented for a new measure of threat appraisals in response to community violence. Adolescents (N = 358; 45% male; 91% African American, M = 12.10 years, SD = 1.63) and their maternal caregivers participated in two waves of a longitudinal interview study focused on the consequences of exposure to community violence. Structural…
Descriptors: Violence, Structural Equation Models, Caregivers, Validity