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Crimmins, Daniel; Farrell, Anne F.; Smith, Philip W.; Bailey, Alison – Brookes Publishing Company, 2007
When a student's challenging behavior can not be resolved through either traditional disciplinary approaches or schoolwide positive behavior support (PBS), what can a teacher do next? This manual has effective solutions for educators from grades K-12. Developed specifically for use with children with persistent or severe behavior problems, this…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Quality of Life, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Academic Achievement
Feinstein, Sheryl – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
Teenagers are perplexing, intriguing, and spirited creatures. In an attempt to discover the secrets to their thoughts and actions, parents have tried talking, cajoling, and begging them for answers. The result has usually been just more confusion. Light is being shed on these mysterious young adults. What was once thought to be hormones run amuck…
Descriptors: Social Life, Parents, Child Rearing, Parenting Skills
Feinstein, Sheryl – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
While all teenage behavior and character traits can be challenging, the issues facing the at-risk teenager are particularly thorny. Anger, aggression, and a lack of good decision-making may happen on a minute-to-minute basis, as teachers try to guide these young adults. Unlocking the key to keeping them in school and facilitating proficiency in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, High Risk Students, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
Reichle, Joe, Ed.; Wacker, David P., Ed. – 1993
Emphasizing the use of communication training as the foundation for effective behavioral programming, this book explains how challenging behavior can be redirected into socially acceptable behavior through functional communication intervention. The book offers hands-on assessment and intervention strategies that can be used in school, home, work,…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Heide, Kathleen M. – 1999
This book assembles and synthesizes some of the latest available information, research findings, and informed opinions regarding the parameters of homicide by youths and concerning the nature of young killers themselves. It provides a framework for understanding youths who kill, for moving forward with treatment, and for reducing violence in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Death, Elementary Secondary Education
Stiffman, Arlene Rubin, Ed.; Davis, Larry E., Ed. – 1990
The essays collected in this book examine the effects of ethnicity on the mental health of adolescents. A dual set of issues emerges throughout the volume: the importance of adolescent mental health in contributing to adult well-being, and the necessity of understanding ethnicity in studying and treating mental health problems. The book is divided…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency, Ethnic Groups
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Darrow, Frank M. – 1974
This booklet discusses the need for a developmental approach to the prevention of juvenile deliquency and crime in general. It presents an overview of the crime problem, mentions some common viewpoints concerning causal factors, and makes a case for the relationship between early life experiences and incidence of adult criminal behavior. The…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Child Psychology, Children, Counseling Objectives
Seita, John R.; Brendtro, Larry K. – 2002
Kids who distrust adults are highly skilled at hiding their real nature and resisting change. Most adults shun such youths or get mired in conflict with them. Punitive get tough practices as well as traditional flaw-fixing treatment are reactive strategies that often drive these youths further from adult bonds and reinforce oppositional and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior
Larson, Jim – Guilford Publications, 2005
This highly practical book presents a complete anger and aggression management training program for middle and high school students. The volume incorporates a newly revised version of the author's proven "Think First" manual, which includes step-by-step skills training guidelines and 20 reproducible handouts and forms. Also provided are…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Guidelines, Screening Tests, Educational Environment
Brendtro, Larry K.; Ness, Arlin; Mitchell, Martin – 2001
Current educational and juvenile justice systems rely greatly on punishment and power over strategies-- especially when faced with youth whose severe behaviors escalate to violence. This book attempts to go beyond the typical problem-focused book, offering field-tested, concrete prevention and intervention strategies that can be used to help even…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, At Risk Persons
Sells, Scott P. – 1998
A model for treating difficult adolescents and their families is presented. Part 1 offers six basic assumptions about the causes of severe behavioral problems and presents the treatment model with guidelines necessary to address each of these six causes. Case examples highlight and clarify major points within each of the 15 procedural steps of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems
McCord, Joan, Ed.; Tremblay, Richard E., Ed. – 1992
A variety of approaches to preventing antisocial behavior in children have ranged from infant schools to residential treatment centers, from social training to psychological therapies, with evaluations that have typically been little more than testimonials to current fashions. By introducing experimental approaches to the study of intervention…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems
Flowers, R. Barri – 2002
The increasingly serious nature of juvenile criminal behavior has led to greater efforts to understand the roots, causes, and correlates of juvenile violence and chronic delinquency, as well as develop more effective means of identifying at-risk youth and treating serious and violent juvenile offenders. This book examines the realities and…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, At Risk Persons, Criminals, Delinquency
Doll, Elizabeth J., Ed.; Cummings, Jack A., Ed. – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2007
This book provides a "roadmap" for designing and implementing school psychological services for all students in a school. School psychologists will find guidelines for conducting a mental health needs assessment of the entire student body; analyzing patterns and trends to identify risk factors and common needs; and using the needs assessment to…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, Behavior Problems, Intervention, Needs Assessment
Comstock, George – 1974
An evaluation was made of the methodology and findings presented in "Television and Antisocial Behavior. Field Experiments," by Stanley Milgram and R. Lance Shotland (New York: Academic Press, 1973). In the book, seven experiments were reported, all concerned with antisocial behavior toward a medical charity. Three episodes of Medical…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Commercial Television
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