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Viranda Fason – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed was the high school classroom learning environment tends to benefit extraverted students while putting introverted students at an academic disadvantage. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to develop a greater understanding of the experiences of introverted students in the classroom and how their experiences may…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adjustment (to Environment), Extraversion Introversion, Social Adjustment
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Larose, Simon; Duchesne, Stéphane; Litalien, David; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Boivin, Michel – Research in Higher Education, 2019
This longitudinal study was aimed to describe and understand student adjustment trajectories during the college transition. Participants came from a large random sample of Quebec high school students. They completed a multidimensional measure of adjustment at two times before entering college and at two other times after college admission.…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, High School Students, College Bound Students, College Students
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Santiago, Catherine DeCarlo; Bustos, Yvita; Jolie, Sarah A.; Flores Toussaint, Roxanna; Sosa, Susana S.; Raviv, Tali; Cicchetti, Colleen – School Psychology, 2021
COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges that newcomer refugee and immigrant families face. While many of the supports that schools typically offer were disrupted by the pandemic, school-based assistance remains critical in this challenging context. In addition to education-related challenges, many newcomer families have been disproportionately…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Immigrants
Dekeyzer, Lori Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2009
With passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990, autism was recognized as a distinct special education category. Subsequently, there has been a steady increase in the number of students qualified in the schools to receive special education services under this category. There are a number of questions as to the types of…
Descriptors: Autism, Special Education, Related Services (Special Education), Urban Schools
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Fisher, Paige H.; Masia-Warner, Carrie; Klein, Rachel G. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2004
This paper describes Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS), a cognitive-behavioral, school-based intervention for adolescents with social anxiety disorder. Clinic-based treatment studies for socially anxious youth are reviewed, and a strong rationale for transporting empirically-based interventions into schools, such as SASS, is provided.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, Anxiety, Interpersonal Competence
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Sears, Heather A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: This study examined whether adolescents who were at various stages of the help-seeking process differed on demographic characteristics, use of informal helpers, and markers of emotional and behavioral adjustment. Method: Youths (N = 644; Grades 7-12) living in three rural communities completed a survey at school. Three comparisons were…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Rural Areas