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Vernon, McCay; Miller, Katrina – American Annals of the Deaf, 2001
This paper examines expectations and stresses placed on sign language interpreters in mental health settings within a framework of demand and control theory. Translations of some specific psychological screening instruments and issues related to the Code of Ethics of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf are considered relative to…
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Children, Codes of Ethics
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Marcotte, Diane; Fortin, Laurier; Potvin, Pierre; Papillon, Myra – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2002
In a study of French-speaking adolescents (n=547), five measures designed to examine psychological well being found that body image, self-esteem, and negative stressful life events mediate the relationship between gender and depressive symptoms during adolescence. Further analysis of a subsample who recently transitioned to high school also found…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Body Image, Depression (Psychology)
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Scholte, Evert M. – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1998
Presents a multiple-risk model wherein the psychosocial needs of troubled children can be easily assessed in a uniform way. Reports that model has sufficient reliability. Uses model to describe the mean-risk profiles of children in five major welfare programs for children in Holland; discusses how risk profiles can assist in selecting a program…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
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Pribilsky, Jason – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2001
Argues that beyond explanations predicated on psychological ideas of separation and attachment, "nervios," a depression-like disorder among children in the southern Ecuadorian Andes, reflects the limits of children's abilities to accept terms of family life increasingly defined through transnational migration and new consumption…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Children, Depression (Psychology)
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Laursen, Erik K. – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2004
Children cannot be reduced to an illness. They are not things, objects, or diagnoses. They are human beings who can grow and change. Rather than focusing on fixing children, care givers must transform themselves and the environments offered children. Establishing a change-oriented therapeutic milieu is essential in our work with reclaiming…
Descriptors: Therapy, Safety, Counseling Techniques, Emotional Problems
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Bianco, Margarita – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
This study investigated the effect of the disability labels learning disabilities (LD) and emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) on public school general education and special education teachers' willingness to refer students to gifted programs. Results indicated that teachers were significantly influenced by the LD and EBD labels when making…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Referral, Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders
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Dhami, Mandeep K.; Hoglund, Wendy L.; Leadbeater, Bonnie J.; Boone, Erin M. – Social Development, 2005
In a short-term longitudinal study of 432 first-grade children, we examined whether gender interacted with contextual differences (school-level poverty) and individual differences at school entry (behavioral problems, emotional problems, and social competence) to predict changes in peer physical and relational victimization and receipt of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Individual Differences, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence
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Rawls, D. Terry; Johnson, Deanna; Bartels, Elizabeth – Journal of College Counseling, 2004
A decrease in resources and an increase in the severity of student concerns are critical challenges faced by counseling centers. By placing professional counselors in residence hails and directing their efforts toward staff rather than students, a Counselor-in-Residence (CIR) program can focus on prevention, identification of at-risk…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Early Intervention, Counselors, Counseling Services
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Blankenship, Tracy L.; Ayres, Kevin M.; Langone, John – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2005
Three students with behavior disorders who exhibited difficulty with reading in content area courses learned to use a computer program to create cognitive maps of the reading material required for class. Using a modified multiple-probe design across behaviors or stimulus sets, replicated across students, allowed for the evaluation of student…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Computer Uses in Education, Reading Comprehension, Behavior Disorders
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Skogstad, Philip; Deane, Frank P.; Spicer, John – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
Treatment avoidance or help-negation has been described in clinical and non-clinical samples, in response to real or imagined suicidal scenarios (Carlton & Deane, 2000; Rudd, Joiner & Rajab, 1995). The aims of the present study were to describe the process of seeking psychological help in prison based on inmate interviews and to assess the…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Foreign Countries
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Stichter, Janine P.; Sasso, Gary M.; Jolivette, Kristine; Carr, Edward G. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2004
The current investigation was designed to identify--through the use of a structural analysis procedure--the most salient antecedent variables related to problem behavior. More specifically, the authors investigated the use of structural analysis procedures to identify antecedent variables within a general education setting that supported the…
Descriptors: Intervention, General Education, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
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Levitt, Jill T.; Cloitre, Marylene – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2005
Women who have PTSD related to childhood abuse have significant deficits in the areas of emotion regulation and interpersonal skills. These problems are associated with impaired functioning in social, work, and home life. In addition, there is substantial clinical concern that limited emotion-regulation skills puts this population at risk for…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Family Life, Females
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Smith, Stephen W.; Lochman, John E.; Daunic, Ann P. – Behavioral Disorders, 2005
Education professionals consistently rank disruptive/aggressive student behavior as persistent and troubling, reporting various types of maladaptive behaviors ranging from talking out in class to assault. Researchers suggest that childhood aggression accounts for a high proportion of the referrals to special education for emotional and behavioral…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Behavior, Researchers, Behavior Patterns
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Barton-Arwood, Sally M.; Wehby, Joseph H.; Falk, Katherine B. – Exceptional Children, 2005
This study evaluated the effects of a reading intervention on the reading achievement and social behaviors of 6 third-grade students with emotional/behavioral disorders. Reading instruction occurred 4 days a week using the Horizons Fast Track reading program and Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies. Analyses indicated variable improvements in basic…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students
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Costello, E. Jane; Erkanli, Alaattin; Angold, Adrian – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Both the professional and the general media have recently published concerns about an "epidemic" of child and adolescent depression. Reasons for this concern include (1) increases in antidepressant prescriptions, (2) retrospective recall by successive birth cohorts of adults, (3) rising adolescent suicide rates until 1990,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Emotional Problems, Incidence, Suicide
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