Assessed reliability, construct, and discriminant validity of Bartholemew's four-category model of attachment in a clinical sample of adolescents. Found that Family Attachment Interview codings of attachment representations were reliable, with possible limitations of categorical assignments. Attachment representations were not associated with…

Examined relation between maternal depressive symptomatology and behavior of conduct-disordered children (n=47) toward their mothers, fathers, and siblings. Maternal symptomatology interacted with children's behavior toward all family members. Children whose mothers were distressed tended to be more compliant and less aversive toward them than…

Alberta Education provides programming support and funding to school authorities to develop and implement special education programming for ECS children and students in grades 1 to 12. "Special Education Coding Criteria 2009/2010" outlines criteria within specific categories to help school authorities identify those children and students…

In British Columbia, Canada, two population-based databases have been linked at the level of the individual child: the "Early Development Instrument", a Kindergarten school readiness measure; and the "Foundation Skills Assessment", a Grade Four academic assessment. Utilising these linked data, we explored the early school…

This study of the relationship between maternal depressive symptomatology and perceptions of child behavior used standard child behavior stimuli to control for differences in child behavior. A total of 31 mothers of children between 5 and 12 years of age with externalizing behavior disorders participated. Each mother watched three videotapes of…

Of 483 inmates who were referred to a sex offender treatment program and followed for an average of 44 months of opportunity to reoffend, 38% were arrested for new violent or sexual offenses. After statistically controlling for the static variables that predicted reoffending, the treatment program was associated with a higher rate of sexual…

Background: This study describes the development of the Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI)--a computer-assisted telephone interview which adapts the revised Ontario Child Health Study's (OCHS-R) parent, teacher, and youth self-report scales for administration as intake screening and treatment outcome measures in children's mental…

A study of the status of underidentification of behaviorally disordered children in special education in British Columbia reviews provincial funding categories, identification guidelines for autism and behavior disorders, and data on total school enrollment, estimated and actual enrollment in programs for behavior disorders, district criteria, and…

This article examines the ideological roots of the Canadian movement toward supportive integration and its educational applications to children with behavioral disorders. Data are presented to show that Canadian school divisions continue to implement a cascade of services in their efforts to achieve full inclusion. (Author/CR)

The attributions made by Chinese immigrant (n = 28) and Euro-Canadian (n = 27) mothers of 5- to 9-year-old boys regarding the causes of child prosocial and problem behaviors exhibited by children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were investigated. Mothers' attributions were elicited using audio-taped scenarios of…

Background: This study examines the use of the Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) to screen for childhood psychiatric disorder based on Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV (DISC-IV) classifications of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD),…

Contrasted maternal depressive symptomatology on child behavior from study of mothers (N=51) and their conduct-disordered children. Found children of distressed mothers more maladjusted when measured on global rating, but better adjusted when measured using interactional measure. Results suggest that conduct-disordered children display…

Investigated relationship between School Problem Screening Inventory, Fifth Edition (SPSI) and Bristol Social Adjustment Guides (BSAG) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Findings from 43 junior high school students with behavior problems showed SPSI Behavior Disorder undercontrolled and overcontrolled scores to be moderately…

The article reviews legislative and associated initiatives of the British Columbia Ministry of Education since the 1988 Sullivan Royal Commission on Education report. It stresses the need to move behavior-disordered students into regular classes in regular schools, a move supported by both the educational literature and legislation. (Author/DB)

An historical overview of suicide in childhood and adolescence is presented. Current legal, etiological, and treatment issues related to the act of self-destruction, including data from British Columbia and other Canadian provinces are discussed. The role of the teacher in prevention and in providing support services for the bereaved is…