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Relational Peer Victimization as a Predictor of Academic Engagement
Peer victimization can be detrimental to youth. This study examines a particular type of peer victimization, relational peer victimization, and its effect on students’ engagement in the classroom. We specifica...
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Cyberbullying and Empathy Among Late-Elementary School Children
There is currently limited research on the relation between forms of empathy and subsequent cyberbullying in middle childhood, a stage in which cyberbullying behaviors are likely to develop. The purpose of thi...
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Strategies for Addressing Racial and Intersectional Microaggressions and Macroaggressions
Racial and intersectional microaggressions refer to subtle discrimination toward people of racial-ethnic minoritized status and other marginalized identities. Macroaggressions are defined as the systemic and i...
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Strategies for Addressing Racial and Intersectional Microaggressions and Macroaggressions
Racial and intersectional microaggressions refer to subtle discrimination toward people of racial-ethnic minoritized status and other marginalized identities. Macroaggressions are defined as the systemic and i...
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Identifying Relationally Aggressive Students: How Aligned are Teachers and Peers?
Relational aggression is characterized by attempts to damage another’s relationships or social status and is a major concern affecting academic, socioemotional, behavioral, and health outcomes, particularly fo...
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The Preventing Relational Aggression in Schools Everyday (PRAISE) Program: Adaptations to Overcome Subgroup Differences in Program Benefits
The Preventing Relational Aggression in Schools Everyday (PRAISE) Program is a school-based program that has shown promise for reducing aggression. PRAISE, 20-session classroom-based universal prevention progr...
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Development, Validation, and Utility of an Instrument to Assess Core Competencies in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program
To describe the development and psychometric evaluation of the Core Competency Measure (CCM), an instrument designed to assess professional competencies as defined by the Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB) a...
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Better Understanding and Intervening to Prevent Relational Aggression
There has been increased attention paid to the reduction of aggressive behaviors among youth since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, an incident which reportedly occurred in response to the perpetrat...
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Develo** Measures of Community-Relevant Outcomes for Violence Prevention Programs: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Measurement
Community-Based Participatory Research is a research paradigm that encourages community participation in designing and implementing evaluation research, though the actual outcome measures usually reflect the “...
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Effect of Aggression and Bullying on Children and Adolescents: Implications for Prevention and Intervention
Peer aggression and bullying is of considerable importance given the large number of youth involved with or witnesses to this behavior and the association with maladjustment and other negative outcomes. This a...
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The Association Between Forms of Aggression, Leadership, and Social Status Among Urban Youth
While much prior research has documented the negative associations between aggression, peer relationships, and social skills, other research has begun to examine whether forms of aggression also may be associa...
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Children’s Sympathy for Peers Who Are the Targets of Peer Aggression
Although a goal of many aggression intervention programs is to increase children’s concern (often termed sympathy or empathy) for their peers as a means of ultimately reducing aggressive behavior, there are no...
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Preliminary Examination of a Cartoon-Based Hostile Attributional Bias Measure for Urban African American Boys
The current study illustrates how researchers developed and validated a cartoon-based adaptation of a written hostile attributional bias measure for a sample of urban, low-income, African American boys. A seri...
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Contemporary Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Community Violence Among African American Youth
While community violence in the United States has diminished since the early 1990s, when its levels peaked to epidemic proportions, it continues to be a major public health problem. Indeed, over the course of ...
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Initial Validation of a Knowledge-Based Measure of Social Information Processing and Anger Management
Over the past fifteen years many schools have utilized aggression prevention programs. Despite these apparent advances, many programs are not examined systematically to determine the areas in which they are mo...
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Intervention Integrity: New Paradigms and Applications
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Using Participatory Action Research to Design an Intervention Integrity System in the Urban Schools
While integrity is often thought of as the degree to which a program is applied as intended, researchers have recently widened the lens to include not only monitoring of program content, but also evaluating th...
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Consent Procedures and Participation Rates in School-Based Intervention and Prevention Research: Using a Multi-Component, Partnership-Based Approach to Recruit Participants
Evaluations of school-based interventions and prevention programs typically require parental consent for students to participate. In school-based efforts, program evaluators may have limited access to parents ...
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Variations in Anxiety and Depression as a Function of ADHD Subtypes Defined by DSM-IV: Do Subtype Differences Exist or Not?
Concerns have been raised about the ability of diagnostic criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to distinguish subtypes that are clearly distinct from each other with regard to clinical ...
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Training for Effective Practice in the Schools
Reforms in health care and education have highlighted the value of schools as a setting for the delivery of intervention and prevention services for children with or at risk for mental health problems (Kolbe, ...