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Grube, Michael – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Dealing with violent cancer patients can be particularly challenging. The purpose of this study was to collect data on the frequency, quality, and underlying variables affecting violent behavior as well as to examine the role played by this behavior in the premature interruption of treatment. A total of 388 cancer inpatients were examined by…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Mental Disorders, Cancer
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Lee, John Chi-Kin; Huang, Yvonne Xian-Han; Law, Edmond Hau-Fai; Wang, Mu-Hua – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This study explores the changing professional identities of teachers and their emotional experiences during curriculum reform in Shenzhen in the southern part of China. A qualitative approach to research was adopted. Findings reveal that the informants display several teaching behaviours and diverse emotions ranging from pain and helplessness,…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Anxiety, Curriculum, Educational Change
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Fagan, Maggie – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2011
This paper describes work with two children, placed for late adoption who have suffered relational trauma. The paper explores the long-term consequences of such trauma, which includes problems with affect regulation, difficulties in generalising from one experience to another and shifts between phantasies of omnipotent control and sudden…
Descriptors: Adoption, Psychotherapy, Child Development, Trauma
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Suwaed, Muhammad – International Education Studies, 2014
The paper presents the perspective of headmasters and educational staff in a sample of Arab high schools in Galilee, Israel, employing and serving a mixed population comprising Moslem and Christian communities. The paper describes efforts made by these schools to bring people closer, and examines programs designed for this purpose, and factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Cultural Pluralism, Principals
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Gray, Peter – American Journal of Play, 2011
Over the past half century, in the United States and other developed nations, children's free play with other children has declined sharply. Over the same period, anxiety, depression, suicide, feelings of helplessness, and narcissism have increased sharply in children, adolescents, and young adults. This article documents these historical changes…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Play
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Qutaiba, Agbaria – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Acquired or learned helplessness is one of the most popular research subjects reported in the psychological literature in recent decades. The present study examined the relationship between involvement in decision-making at the school and learned helplessness among special-education teachers in the Israeli Arab sector. The importance of this study…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Arabs, Correlation, Special Education Teachers
Ollis, Cindy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Coping Competence Questionnaire (CCQ), based on the reformulated learned helplessness theory, was designed to assess a general stress resistance versus a propensity towards learned helplessness with a brief, 12-item self-report questionnaire. In this study the CCQ was administered to 247 undergraduate students, who were then paired, in groups…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Helplessness, Questionnaires, Program Effectiveness
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Ranney, Megan L.; Madsen, Tracy; Gjelsvik, Annie – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
A common reason for not participating in intimate partner violence (IPV) research is thought to be fear for one's safety. However, little is known about those who do not participate due to safety fears. To better characterize this population, we investigated correlates of being "not safe" to answer the optional IPV module in the 2006…
Descriptors: Safety, Telephone Surveys, Risk, Immigrants
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Razer, Michal; Friedman, Victor J.; Warshofsky, Boaz – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Although schools are usually regarded as important agents for social inclusion, research has shown that they may also function as agents of exclusion itself. The goal of this paper is to deepen our understanding of how schools function as agents of exclusion and how they can become more effective agents of inclusion. It is based on action research…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Social Integration, Educational Environment, Action Research
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Casserly, Ann Marie – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2013
This paper reports on a four-year research project examining the experiences of children with dyslexia in mainstream schools and reading schools/classes. The focus of this paper is on the socio-emotional effects of dyslexia on a group of children attending a reading school/class for a specific duration before returning to mainstream. The findings…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Special Education
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American Psychologist, 2009
Steven F. Maier, winner of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions, is cited for his work in the fields of learned helplessness; cytokines, depressed mood, and cognitive interference; and the brain structures that produce and counteract learned helplessness. In addition to the citation, a biography and selected bibliography of Maier's…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Helplessness, Neurology, Depression (Psychology)
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Yeh, Stuart S. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2010
This article synthesizes findings regarding the development of competence and learned helplessness and factors influencing persistence and intrinsic motivation, suggests the process through which small differences in early achievement are magnified by the current structure of schools, and reviews evidence suggesting that the characteristics of a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Formative Evaluation, Individualized Instruction, Student Evaluation
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Fischer, Peter; Krueger, Joachim I.; Greitemeyer, Tobias; Vogrincic, Claudia; Kastenmuller, Andreas; Frey, Dieter; Heene, Moritz; Wicher, Magdalena; Kainbacher, Martina – Psychological Bulletin, 2011
Research on bystander intervention has produced a great number of studies showing that the presence of other people in a critical situation reduces the likelihood that an individual will help. As the last systematic review of bystander research was published in 1981 and was not a quantitative meta-analysis in the modern sense, the present…
Descriptors: Intervention, Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews
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Martin, Andrew J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
In the context of 7,637 high school students, the present study explored an hypothesized formulation of academic courage (defined as perseverance in the face of academic difficulty and fear) and its role in predicting academic performance (literacy and arithmetic) and various academic engagement measures (planning, task management,…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Fear
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Tomasello, Nicole M.; Manning, Amy R.; Dulmus, Catherine N. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
Almost 300,000 children in the United States from birth to 3 years of age are affected by a developmental disability. Disabilities have a lasting effect on a child's development and, in turn, may have a psychosocial impact on the child's family. In addition, the limitations of a child with a disability are often related to family members' stress,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Helplessness, Developmental Disabilities, Toddlers
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