Education & Treatment of Children articles from February 2004

Education & Treatment of Children archives from February 2004

The use of differential reinforcement and fading to increase time away from a caregiver in a child with Separation Anxiety Disorder.
February 1, 2004... Abstract The use of differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) and fading of time away from caregivers in an 11-year old boy with Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is illustrated. During baseline, the participant exhibited...

A truncated functional behavioral assessment procedure for children with disruptive classroom behaviors.
February 1, 2004... Abstract Schools are now required by law to create behavior support plans based on functional behavioral assessment (FBA) for students with behavior problems. Although FBA has been shown to be effective, there are questions as to its...

Training a general education teacher to apply functional assessment.
February 1, 2004... Abstract Functional assessment is a multi-step process that addresses operant variables to develop interventions that are both effective and socially valid. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a general education teacher...

Predicting teacher interventions in bullying situations.
February 1, 2004... Abstract This study examined the attitudes and interventions of 98 elementary school teachers in bullying situations. The self-efficacy of teachers in behavioral management, empathy toward victims, and perceived seriousness of bullying...

An exploratory study of the implementation of embedded instruction by general educators with students with developmental disabilities.
February 1, 2004... Abstract A multiple probe across subjects design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of embedded instruction with three students with developmental disabilities who were enrolled in general education classrooms. Two general education...

School-based responses to children who have been sexually assaulted.
February 1, 2004... Abstract Over 300,000 children are sexually abused annually in the United States, with 84,320 new cases of child sexual abuse occurring each year (National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, 1998). It is inevitable that educators and mental...