A large-scale study was designed to assess the extent of emotional disturbance among Head Start children and to provide a consistent basis for selection if therapeutic intervention were indicated. The study's aim was to avoid the problem of shifting baselines by individual teachers for determining the degree to which their children were departing…

The article considers issues affecting the role of the mental health therapist of children in foster care in relation to the foster family, biological parents, and the caseworker. The broader role of the therapist as an intervener in the foster care and protective service system is also examined. (Author/DB)

Following an explanation of the importance of a positive self concept for academic achievement, the self, its emergence, and effects on its development are described briefly. (KW)

This study investigated whether behavioral contagion would be observed when socially accepted and socially rejected children were exposed to an emotionally disturbed child for 3 months. (Author/BY)

Distribution of behavior disturbance in the childhood and postschool years was examined for a five-year birth cohort of mentally retarded young adults. Differences were noted for higher and lower IQ levels, age, and sex. Approximately 60 percent had some behavior disturbance in childhood and young adulthood. (CL)

Study results indicate the mean depression levels in a group of Chinese children was similar to those found for children in the West. Positively associated depression with aggressive-disruptive behavior and negatively associated it with social competence. School social and academic difficulties were concurrently and positively correlated with…

Used projective techniques to examine trends in the psychic state of juvenile delinquents. Found that delinquents showed greater signs of psychopathology than a normal control group. Those tested in 1981-84 displayed depression and identity diffusion, in contrast to those tested in 1990-98, who showed dissolution anxiety, lack of attachment…

A study assessed prevalence of date violence and rape in 81,247 adolescents. Approximately 9% of girls and 6% of boys had experienced date violence or rape. Date violence and rape was associated with higher rates of disordered eating behaviors and suicidal thoughts and attempts, and lower emotional well-being and self-esteem. (Contains…

This study investigated the use of practitioner-implemented structural analyses to determine setting events affecting the disruptive behavior of two male students with EBD in a self-contained classroom. Descriptive measures (PBQ, SEII, and direct observation) and analogue probes were employed and contrasted. An ABA reversal design was used to…

The Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms (DIPS) was used to examine psychopathology in 30 therapy outpatients with histories of incest. Subjects also responded to the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Correlations were used to examine characteristics of the sample and to identify circumstances of their experiences of incest which…

The role of spontaneous story writing in the education of normal and emotionally troubled students is examined. A review of the theoretical and research base touches on the value of fantasy production in language development, self exploration, and problem solving. Classroom application is examined in terms of the need for a facilitative…

The collection of readings deals with teaching and managing both emotionally disturbed children and children who are in a state of emotional disturbance or conflict due to external factors. The readings in the first chapter, selected from fictional and non fictional literature and other sources, illustrate how it feels to be emotionally disturbed…

Available from: Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. A 10-year pediatric practice involving the observation of 290 children diagnosed as hyperactive led to the beliefs that hyperactivity is an emotional problem and that the child's inner state or family relationships should be central…

Evaluation of emotional/behavioral characteristics of 67 learning disabled children indicated that children with left hemisphere impaired cognitive profiles demonstrated dysphoria, anxiety, and social withdrawal; while children with right hemisphere impaired profiles demonstrated low rates of dysphoria/anxiety and increased somatic complaints.…