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Student-to-Student Abuse in the Indian Residential Schools in Canada: Setting the Stage for Further Understanding
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Charles, Grant; DeGagné, Mike – Child & Youth Services, 2013
The Indian residential school system in Canada was established to assimilate Aboriginal children into mainstream society by removing the "Indian within them." In the past 20 years survivors of the schools have come forward with stories of physical and sexual abuse perpetrated against them by staff. However, what is significantly less…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Bullying, Student Behavior
Diagnostic Bias and Conduct Disorder: Improving Culturally Sensitive Diagnosis
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Mizock, Lauren; Harkins, Debra – Child & Youth Services, 2011
Disproportionately high rates of Conduct Disorder are diagnosed in African American and Latino youth of color. Diagnostic bias contributes to overdiagnosis of Conduct Disorder in these adolescents of color. Following a diagnosis of Conduct Disorder, adolescents of color face poorer outcomes than their White counterparts. These negative outcomes…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Bias, Behavior Disorders, Disproportionate Representation
Protective Effects of Parental Monitoring on Offending in Victimized Youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Nash, James K.; Mujanovic, Eldan; Winfree, L. Thomas – Child & Youth Services, 2011
Empirical and conceptual literature in the United States and Western Europe provides robust evidence of victimization as a risk factor for juvenile offending and parental monitoring as a protective factor. The current study examines relationships among victimization, monitoring, and offending using a sample of youth from Bosnia and Herzegovina…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Risk, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Pushing the Boundaries of Education: Evaluating the "Impact of Second Step[R]--A Violence Prevention Curriculum" with Psychosocial and Non-Cognitive Measures
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Neace, William P.; Munoz, Marco A. – Child & Youth Services, 2012
The "Second Step"[R] violence prevention curriculum was implemented in a large urban school district as part of a comprehensive three-year initiative to impact students at-risk for violence and substance abuse. An outcome evaluation was conducted to assess the intervention's effectiveness on students' attitudes and on behaviors important for…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Substance Abuse, Student Attitudes, Prevention
Laying down the Family Burden: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Resilience in the Midst of Family Violence
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Kassis, Wassilis; Artz, Sibylle; Moldenhauer, Stephanie – Child & Youth Services, 2013
Questionnaire data from a cross-sectional study of a randomly selected sample of 5,149 middle-school students from four EU countries (Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Spain) were used to explore the effects of family violence burden level, structural and procedural risk and protective factors, and personal characteristics on adolescents who are…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Family Violence
Listening to At-Risk Youth
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Child & Youth Services, 2007
In this chapter I describe the micro "risk society" of Limerick City and St. Augustine's Youth Encounter Project in terms of the social and cultural background of the interviewees, their perceived family and community identity, and their wider socialisation influences. The project is situated down one of the notorious Limerick lanes made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Background, Adjustment (to Environment), Coping