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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Wehby, Joseph H.; Robertson, E. Jemma; Ann Rogers, Leslie – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
In this article, the authors examined (a) the accuracy of teacher nominations in identifying (N = 178) high school students with externalizing, internalizing, comorbid, and typical behavior patterns, as well as students who were receiving special education services for high-incidence disabilities, (b) the level of treatment fidelity and access to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Positive Reinforcement, Intervention, Behavior Patterns
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Greenbaum, Paul E.; Dedrick, Robert F. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
For the study reported here, the authors used growth mixture modeling to analyze changes in alcohol and marijuana use and the use of drug and alcohol treatment services for a sample of 180 adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (ages 12-14 years at the beginning of the 7-year longitudinal study). Three latent classes of substance users…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Marijuana, Emotional Disturbances, Substance Abuse
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Achilles, Georgianna M.; McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Croninger, Robert G. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
Suspension and expulsion are widely used to exclude students with and without disabilities who present problem behaviors in school, despite contentious legal debate and evidence associating these methods with high ecological stress and problematic developmental outcomes. Using selected participant data (N = 1,824) from the SEELS study, the study…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Hyperactivity, Behavior Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Barth, Richard P.; Lloyd, E. Christopher; Green, Rebecca L.; James, Sigrid; Leslie, Laurel K.; Landsverk, John – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
Children identified as having emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) may have different out-of-home care placements than their peers without EBD. This study compared the factors influencing placement movements for 362 children with EBD and 363 children without EBD, using clinical "Child Behavior Checklist" (CBCL) scores at baseline data…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Check Lists, Siblings, Depression (Psychology)
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Singh, Nirbhay N.; Lancioni, Giulio E.; Singh Joy, Subhashni D.; Winton, Alan S. W.; Sabaawi, Mohamed; Wahler, Robert G.; Singh, Judy – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
Adolescents with conduct disorder frequently engage in aggressive and disruptive behaviors. Often these behaviors are controlled or managed through behavioral or other psychosocial interventions. However, such interventions do not always ensure lasting changes in an adolescent's response repertoire so that he or she does not engage in aggression…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Aggression, Behavior Disorders
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Sutherland, Kevin S.; Snyder, Angela – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an intervention involving reciprocal peer tutoring and self-graphing of reading data on the disruptive behavior, active responding, and reading fluency of students with emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD). Four middle school students with EBD participated in this research. Results…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Behavior, Intervention, Tutoring
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DiStefano, Christine A.; Kamphaus, Randy W. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
The purpose of this study was to document the development of a short behavioral scale that could be used to assess preschoolers' behavior while still retaining adequate scale coverage, reliability, and validity. Factor analysis and item analysis techniques were applied to data from a nationally representative, normative database to create a…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Item Analysis, Factor Analysis
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Hoagwood, Kimberly E.; Olin, S. Serene; Kerker, Bonnie D.; Kratochwill, Thomas R.; Crowe, Maura; Saka, Noa – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
This review examines empirically based studies of school-based mental health interventions. The review identified 64 out of more than 2,000 articles published between 1990 and 2006 that met methodologically rigorous criteria for inclusion. Of these 64 articles, only 24 examined both mental health "and" educational outcomes. The majority of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Family Involvement, Meta Analysis, School Activities
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Turchik, Jessica A.; Karpenko, Veronika; Ogles, Benjamin M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
The "Ohio Youth Problems, Functioning, and Satisfaction Scales" (Ohio Scales) are a recently developed set of measures designed to be a brief, practical assessment of changes in behavior over time in children and adolescents. The authors explored the convergent validity of the Ohio Scales by examining the relationship between the scales and…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Adolescents, Mental Health Programs, Test Validity
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Parks, Robin J.; Kalberg, Jemma Robertson; Carter, Erik W. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
This article presents findings of two studies, one conducted with middle school students (n = 500) in a rural setting and a second conducted with middle school students (n = 528) in an urban setting, of the reliability and validity of the "Student Risk Screening Scale" (SRSS; Drummond, 1994). Results revealed high internal consistency, test-retest…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Predictive Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Simmel, Cassandra – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
This study is based on a statewide longitudinal sample of adopted foster youth and explores the relationship between early pre-adoption risk factors and subsequent elevated levels of psychopathology symptomatology. One central goal of the study was to evaluate the impact of preadoption stressors (prenatal drug/nicotine exposure, early…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Placement, Sexual Abuse, Parenting Styles
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Farmer, Thomas W.; Farmer, Elizabeth M. Z.; Estell, David B.; Hutchins, Bryan C. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
The authors consider school violence from a dynamic systems conceptualization of aggression. This perspective suggests that aggression and school violence involve the contributions of both school social dynamics and the developmental histories of youth who are at risk for involvement in antisocial behavior. The authors present the concept of…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Conflict, Public Health
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Simonsen, Brandi M.; Bullis, Michael D. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
This study explored the ability of Systematically Progressive Assessment (SPA), a multiple gating approach for assessing students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), to discriminate between subtypes of ADHD. A total of 48 students with ADHD (ages 6-11) were evaluated with three "gates" of assessment. Logistic regression analysis…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Evaluation Methods
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Rescorla, Leslie; Achenbach, Thomas; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Dumenci, Levent; Almqvist, Fredrik; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Chen, Wei; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Fombonne, Eric; Fonseca, Antonio; Frigerio, Alessandra; Grietens, Hans; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael; Larsson, Bo; Leung, Patrick; Liu, Xianchen; Minaei, Asghar; Mulatu, Mesfin S.; Novik, Torunn S.; Oh, Kyung-Ja; Roussos, Alexandra; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Weintraub, Sheila; Weisz, John; Metzke, Christa Winkler; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Yang, Hao-Jan; Zilber, Nelly; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
This study compared parents' ratings of behavioral and emotional problems on the "Child Behavior Checklist" (Achenbach, 1991; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) for general population samples of children ages 6 to 16 from 31 societies (N = 55,508). Effect sizes for society ranged from 0.03 to 0.14. Effect sizes for gender were less than or equal to 0.01,…
Descriptors: Parents, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
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Stambaugh, Leyla Faw; Mustillo, Sarah A.; Burns, Barbara J.; Stephens, Robert L.; Baxter, Beth; Edwards, Dan; DeKraai, Mark – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
This study examined outcomes for 320 youth in a Center for Mental Health Services system-of-care demonstration site. Youth received wraparound-only (n = 213), MST-only (n = 54), or wraparound + MST (n = 53). Participants were 12 years old on average and mostly White (90%), and 75% were Medicaid-eligible. Service use and functional and clinical…
Descriptors: Intervals, Health Services, Mental Health, Emotional Disturbances
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