Guidance, discipline
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Description: This website provides resources and links to organizations associated with accident prevention among children.
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Description: Outcomes of Participants in Cornell Cooperative Extension Discipline is Not a Dirty Word Parent Education Program.
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Description: This article describes the characteristics of bullies and victims in comparison to non-bullying teens.
Author: Abell, Ellen (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet geared to helping parents understand the difference between loving and spoiling.
Author: Malley, Cathy (2 more by this author)
Description: "EN ESTA SECCION APRENDERAS:
- Que no es facil ensenarles a los ninos a como compartir.
- Que debes ser un buen ejemplo para ellos y ensenarles a como compartir.
- Que debes elogiar y ayudar a los ninos mientras aprenden a comparti"
Description: This game provides a way for children to practice dealing with bullies.
Biting, Pushing, Hair Pulling: Helping Children with Aggression
Description: This brief article is aimed at helping parents understand and help their children when they hurt others, and when they are hurt by other children.
Biting, Pushing, Pulling Hair Helping Children with Aggression
Description: This article is aimed at helping parents understand and help their children when they hurt others, and when they are hurt by other children. It provides some guiding principles for understanding our children's aggression, helping them relax again, and for helping the child who is hurt by another child.
Author: Durosimni, Brenda (1 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes bullying, the warning signs of a child who is bullied or who bullies others, and how parents can respond.
Description: This article defines the term bully and explains ways to identify bullying.
Bullying in Schools: An Overview
Description: This bulletin examines the connection between different types and frequencies of bullying, truancy, and student achievement, and whether students' engagement in school mediates these factors. The authors conclude that victimization in the form of bullying can distance students from learning.
Bullying: It’s Not Child’s Play 
Author: Bixler, Mikki (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes bullying, the warning signs of a child who is bullied or who bullies others, and how parents can respond.
Children and Bullying: A Guide for Parents
Description: This guide describes the interactions of bullies and children who are bullied (across various ages) and how parents can respond.
Children and Television: Using TV Sensibly
Author: Murray, John (2 more by this author); Barbara Lonnborg
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggested ways to manage their children's television viewing.
Author: Sachs, Shannon (2 more by this author)
Description: "One of the most important parenting practices is good communication. Communication is especially important during adolescence, when old patterns of communicating may have to be altered to fit the growing needs and capabilities of your adolescent."
Author: Harrelson, Peggy (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet on helping parents deal with angry children.
Decision Making/Problem Solving With Teens
Author: Welker, J. Eileene (1 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet aimed at parents who want their children to grow up to be independent, responsible, happy adults.
Desarrollo de la Autoestima (Development of Self-Esteem)
Author: Mietlicki, Shirley (3 more by this author)
Description: "EN ESTA SECCION APRENDERAS
- ?Que es la autoestima?
- ?Que influencia tu autoestima?
- ?Como puedes fortalecer tu autoestima?
- ?Por que es importante tener una autoestima positiva?"
Description: Located at the Children's Research Center in a setting conducive to interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service, these projects share their expertise and experience, a library, and common meeting spaces. Several projects share key personnel.
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: A publication that describes how to partake in effective discipline through three steps/questions: Why is the child misbehaving, How am I handling the misbehavior, What specific tools can I find, to help me in this situation?
Estrategias Disciplinarias Efectivas para los Niños (Effective Discipline for Young Children)
Author: Malley, Cathy (2 more by this author)
Description: EN ESTA SECCION APRENDERAS:
- A comprender mejor el com-portamiento de los ninos.
- Como prevenir el mal com-portamiento.
- Como manejar el mal com-portamiento.
- Que la disciplina le ensena a los ninos a como comportarse.
- Que hay muchas maneras acceptables de disciplinar. No hay ninguna estrategia que sea siempre la correcta.
Guiding the Behavior of Young Children
Author: Harrelson, Peggy (2 more by this author)
Description: Guiding the behavior of young children involves establishing mutual respect and expecting cooperation. Effective discipline is positive and child focused. It encourages self-control and appropriate behavior. Through effective discipline, children can learn to make positive choices, learn problem-solving skills, and learn values of respect and responsibility. There are several common-sense strategies for effectively guiding the behavior of young children.
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: Your young child needs you to firmly set limits for his behavior. He needs your guidance to learn how to get along in the world. Setting limits and teaching young children to behave are skills you can learn. This publication will tell you some important things about helping young children learn to behave.
La marihuana: Lo que los padres deben saber
Description: Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know Provides valuable information from research on the dangers of marijuana. Gives parents explanations of the latest scientific information about the drug and suggestions on how to talk to teens about it.
Media and Children: Choosing TV Programs, Movies, Videos, and DVDs
Author: Ebata, Aaron (3 more by this author)
Description: This article provides information on TV ratings and links to information and advice for parents on children and media.
Media and Children: Taming Television
Author: Ebata, Aaron (3 more by this author); Katherine Branscomb
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on what parents can do if they are worried about their children's TV habits and how too much television viewing might be harmful to them.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "Oppositional Defiant Disorder(ODD) is a diagnosis given to children who display a pattern of negative and defiant behavior to parents, teachers and others who have authority over them."
Parent Education and Support Literature Review
Author: Brown, Margaret
Description: List of links for parental education
Parent-Child Power Struggles: How to Handle Them
Author: Lingren, Herbert
Description: "Battles between parents and children about who is going to do what and when is as old as life itself. These power struggles test parental patience, endurance, and common sense. The parent is often at wit's end with the child's..."
Description: This site was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.
Author: Golden, Ann
Description: Setting limits plays an important part in disciplining children. For parents, the goal of setting limits and disciplining children is to foster and develop children's inner self-control. By setting limits, parents communicate certain expectations of children's behavior.
Positive Guidance and Discipline
Author: Kight, Georgia; Jackie Roseboro
Description: The lesson and activities in this section explores parenting styles and child outcomes as well as specific prevention and intervention strategies which parents can use to guide their children's behavior. There is also a variety of tools that can be used with various audiences and situations.
Preventing Misbehavior with Very Young Children
Description: A fact sheet describing various techniques for preventing misbehavior among very young children.
Problem Behaviors With Children
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: "All children have behavior problems, some being harder to accept than others. Some of these behaviors can cause children to be aggressive, hostile and difficult to handle, which may emphasize their respective limitations. As parents we are our children's first and foremost teacher. We need to establish our plan for accomplishing rules and expectations."
Responsible Social Networking for Teens
Description: Social networking websites allow teens to express themselves freely on a global medium. Along with the opportunities for learning that social networking brings, youth and their parents should learn the "rules of the road" for responsible behavior online.
Responsive Discipline: 9. Consequences
Description: This is a short YouTube video from Charles Smith’s “Responsive Discipline” series focusing on how consequences can be used to teach and change a child's behavior.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: Child abduction is every parent’s nightmare. This article offers thoughts and tips to help keep children safer.
Description: "Scared straight" programs have long been wildly popular in this country as a get-tough response to juvenile crime. They typically involve bringing at-risk youths into an adult prison, where they are confronted — in shocking and brutal fashion — by adult inmates. These programs may include tours of the facility and personal stories from prisoners and may even integrate the youths into the prison population for up to a day.
Secrets of Parenting 1, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on ways to cope and guide children. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Secrets of Parenting 5, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on discipline and guidance issues. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Setting Limits and Standing Firm
Author: Oliver, Kathy (3 more by this author)
Description: Limits protect people from physical harm, protect property, prevent psychological harm, and promote respect for others. Reviewing these functions will help parents decide if a new limit needs to be set and if an old limit is still a reasonable one. Let's look closer at setting limits.
Should you give your child an allowance?
Author: Behal, Patricia (1 more by this author); Alice Crites
Description: This fact sheet provides information on how parents can make a decision to give their children allowances.
Stranger Danger: What Your Children Need to Know
Description: This fact sheet provides tips for helping parents talk to their children about strangers.
Tantrums getting the better of you?
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: Sure kids protest, but how do you handle the behavior in the two to three year old? This article offers suggestions.
Description: This fact sheet describes internet risks, including cyberbullying, and outlines ways to protect youth from harm.
Teens are naturally prone to risk-taking: It's the parents' role to keep them safe
Description: This article discusses the risk-taking of teenagers and how parents can protect them.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article offers advice on understanding and managing the behavior of two-year-olds.
The Center for Effective Discipline
Description: The Center for Effective Discipline provides educational information to the public on the effects of corporal punishment of children and alternatives to its use.
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
- More about "The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience"
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "In an age of busy lifestyles and two career families, parents spend a lot of energy trying to manage their time more effectively. However, we rarely consider how important it is to manage our children’s time as well."
Time Out and Other Discipline Tools That Work
Author: Jelly, Kathy
Description: Time out is a well-known discipline technique that has gained popularity among parents trying to manage and guide children's behavior. When used appropriately, time out is an effective discipline tool; however, it is often overused in trying to handle too many situations of misbehavior. Time out is most effective when used for only a few specific situations.
Tips for Parents: Dealing with the School Bully
Description: This fact sheet describes how to know if your child is being bullied and what to do about it.
Understanding Children: Disciplining Your Preschooler
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on guidance with preschoolers. It provides information on how to establish routines and realistic expectations for children and offers suggestions on how to respond to misbehavior. Examples of responses are provided.
Understanding Children: Disciplining Your Toddler
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author)
Description: Setting limits and maintaining some kind of control are difficult tasks with toddlers because they are so independent, yet have so few skills to communicate and solve problems. The key to disciplining your toddler includes love, understanding, and quick thinking!
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author); Laura Miller
Description: A PDF file that describes how using consequences as a way of discipline can be an effective way of child development.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: Fireworks – Anger Management in Adult-Child Relationships
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource in an online non-credit course regarding anger management and how it is approached and viewed in society. The main focus is the sensitive relationship between adults and children.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: Responsive Discipline
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource is an informal personal study course that provides tools for guiding and nurturing children from early childhood through adolescence.
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Bullying: Resources for Parents
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents to help their child cope with being bullied at school.
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Author: Sachs, Shannon (2 more by this author)
Description: "One of the most important parenting practices is good communication. Communication is especially important during adolescence, when old patterns of communicating may have to be altered to fit the growing needs and capabilities of your adolescent."
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
- More about "The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience"
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Abuelos Criando a sus Nietos: Disciplinando a sus nietos
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet for grandparents raising grandchildren outlines discipline guidelines such as setting rules, how to respond when children misbehave, how to identify age-appropriate rules/behavior, and how to teach and encourage appropriate behavior.
Author: Abell, Ellen (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet geared to helping parents understand the difference between loving and spoiling.
Appropriate Limits for Young Children: A Guide for Discipline
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet and teaching guide gives information about the guidance and discipline of young children. The following issues are addressed: causes for children's misbehavior, differences in expectations for children at varying ages, and strategies for dealing with behavior issues. This resource also includes a bibliography of other resources.
Description: This article discusses the identification, consequences, and prevention of bullying.
Bullying: Resources for Parents
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents to help their child cope with being bullied at school.
Calling All Parents: How Did You Do on Your Homework?
Description: This article focuses on parents' role in helping their children with homework. Provides suggestions on creating a healthy cooperative learning environment.
Como Fortalecer la Autoestima? (How to Build Self-Esteem)
Author: Mietlicki, Shirley (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on the role of parents in building their children's self-esteem (adapted from A Study Group on Self-Esteem" by Ellen Rowe, University of Vermont Cooperative Extension).
Discipline Is Not a Dirty Word
Author: Birckmayer, Jennifer
Description: Using practical examples and exercises, this publication guides the reader through seven principles of discipline for correcting children's behavior. Practice episodes for teachers and parents demonstrate how the principles can be translated into action.
Description: This article explains different types of discipline and how to positively use discipline.
Discipline: Teaching School Age Children Social Skills
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet includles effective discipline techniques for school-age children.
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at single parents and makes suggestions for disciplining children.
Enseñando a crecer, una guía para padres
Description: Enseñando a crecer, una guía para padres is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 52 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary school. This version is a translation into Spanish (with limited cultural adaptation) from the English version of Positive Discipline.
Estrategias para Padres (Quick Tips for Parents)
Description: This article provides tips for parents on listening, cooperation and punishment.
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the effects of television viewing on preschool-age children. The author gives parents suggestions for using TV wisely with young children.
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents information about recommended do's and don't's when disciplining children. (Note: This resource is available in html at http://www.nasdonline.org/document/1691/d001581/good-discipline-is-guiding-and-teaching-the-children.html and in Spanish as "La Buena Disciplina es Guiar y Enseñar a los Niños" at http://nasdonline.org/document/1692/d001581s/la-buena-disciplina-es-guiar-y-ense-ntilde.html.)
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Disciplining Your Grandchild
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a brief overview for grandparents raising grandchildren on how to effectively and consistently discipline children at different ages, as well as how to encourage positive behaviors.
Great Beginnings for Families Program
Author: Greder, Kimberly (7 more by this author); Donna Andrusyk
Description: Great Beginnings for Families is a research based, interactive parenting education curriculum (Spanish and English) for parents of children 0-6 years that focuses on child development, play and encouragement, guidance and discipline, building family strengths, and anger management. Program evaluation data reveals that parents who have participated in the program strengthen their parenting knowledge and skills.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This is a tool that parents can use to better understand their parenting style (permissive, unengaged, authoritarian, and authoritative). It provides suggestions on how to reduce discipline problems and improve healthy parent-child relationships. It includes a self-assessment quiz for parents to complete. Also includes activity suggestions to use this information in training sessions with parents.
Description: Comprendemos que no siempre es fácil hablar con tus hijos sobre el peligro de las drogas y el alcohol. Aquí encontrarás guías y consejos simples y prácticos para ayudarte a conversar con tus hijos y protegerlos.
Description: This program is for expectant parents, caregivers, and parents of children from infancy to age five. The program is a study that enables parents to expand their knowledge on parenting. Growth and development, physical and emotional needs, and positive discipline strategies are some of the topics discussed.
Helping Children Grow: Dealing with Problem Behavior
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions and tips to help parents deal with problem behaviors.
Helping Children Grow: Developing Personal Identity
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on ways for parents to help their children develop into healthy self-image and self-esteem.
Helping Children Grow: Managing Children's TV Habits
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions and tips to help parents manage their children's television watching.
Helping Children Grow: Using Discipline Constructively
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet designed to help parents use positive forms of discipline.
Description: This compendium provides tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences.
Description: Media literacy and tobacco program for 5-8 grade students. Three units with 5-6 activities per unit. Topics include the origins, content, and effects of tobacco and interpretation, history, and strategies of media marketing.
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes the best ways to meet children's needs at various stages in their development.
Monitoring Your Child’s Internet Use -fact sheet
Description: This article discusses the dangers of cyberspace and how to monitor your child’s use.
Description: The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) coordinates adolescent health promotion and disease prevention programs and initiatives.
ParentFurther: High-Risk Behaviors
Description: ParentFurther, the Search Institute’s site for families, contains, research-based information and resources on how to assess and prevent and cope with high-risk behaviors among children and youth.
Parenting During the Elementary School Years, Part 1: Preventing Misbehavior
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Ingrid Rivera; Anne M. Fugate
Description: Fact sheet on parenting school-age children. Provides suggestions on how parents can develop a relationship with their children, avoid misbehavior, and encourage children to become more self-reliant.
Parenting During the Elementary School Years, Part 2: Discipline
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Ingrid Rivera; Anne M. Fugate
Description: Discipline strategies are discussed in this fact sheet to help parents deal with their child’s misbehavior quickly and effectively. The fact sheet also provides parents with tips on establishing guidelines that will prevent misbehavior from happening and thus encourage children to be more responsible, happy and self-confident.
Description: Parenting Pipeline contains free newsletters for parents of preschoolers, kindergartners, second, fourth, and sixth graders, and teens. Each level offers a number of newsletters on issues related to parenting and family life.
Description: This site was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.
Positive Guidance for Hard-to-handle Kids: Parenting Education for Foster Parents
Author: Davis, Tracy
Description: This site provides a complete description of a program designed for foster parents who experience challenges in raising difficult, temperamental children. Aimed at foster parents with children 3-12 years old.
Preventing Misbehavior with Very Young Children
Description: A fact sheet describing various techniques for preventing misbehavior among very young children.
Description: The Promising Practices Network features summaries of evaluated programs that improve outcomes for children. Topics include: Behavior Problems, Child Abuse and Neglect, Cognitive Development / School Performance, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Physical Health, Poverty / Welfare, Substance Abuse, Teen Sex/Pregnancy, and Violent Behavior.
Secrets of Parenting 1, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on ways to cope and guide children. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Secrets of Parenting 5, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on discipline and guidance issues. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Something Better than Punishment
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses alternatives to punishing children and ways to provide guidance.
Stop Bullying Now: What Parents Can Do
Description: As an adult, one of best ways you can help stop or prevent bullying is to be educated about, and sensitive to, the issue. Whether you are a concerned parent, an educator or school employee, a health and safety professional, or someone else who works with children, this site has many things you can do to help.
Success and the Single Parent: Positive Parenting, Understanding Children
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes some of the issues single parents face in properly addressing their children's need for guidance and discipline.
Tarbiyeynta Wanaagsan: Hagaha Waalidka (Somali)
Description: Tarbiyeynta Wanaagsan: Hagaha Waalidka is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 52 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary school. This version is a translation into Somali (with limited cultural adaptation) from the English version of Positive Discipline
Teen Talk: A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers
Description: The Teen Talk fact sheet series is designed to help parents talk with teens about challenging topics, including: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, school, peer pressure, bullies, sports, employment, dating, and parties.
Author: Oliver, Kathy (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses how it is important for parents and their children to understand and appreciate anger as a common emotion so they can learn to express it in appropriate ways.
Description: The Parenting Network provides articles and related information for parents and caregivers of children to help deal with the stresses of parenting.
Description: This site gives information on bullying; including articles entitled bullying fundamentals, from teasing to bullying, bullying facts, responding to bullying, from victim to target, from spectator to witness. As well as activities for workshops.
Thriving with Your Spirited Child
Author: Baumgartner, Nan; Faden Fulleylove-Krause; Donna Doll-Yogerst
Description: This web-based curriculum includes teaching materials (background, power point, facilitator's guide, activities, transparencies, parent resources, and children's activities.); publicity (brochure, poster, certificate, display board, news release) and evaluation. The web-base enables easy access/adaptation for local implementation. Extensive evaluation data have been collected and formatted into success stories.
Description: This article provides information and tips on toilet training.
Txoj Kev Pab Rau Cov Niam Txiv Cob Qhia Kom Me Nyuam Coj Zoo (Hmong)
Description: Txoj Kev Pab Rau Cov Niam Txiv Cob Qhia Kom Me Nyuam Coj Zoo is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 52 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary school. This version is a translation into Hmong (with limited cultural adaptation) from the English version of Positive Discipline.
Underage Alcohol Use: An Introduction
Description: This website is geared to helping parents help their children steer clear of alcohol and involves helping them feel safe, supported, and nurturing their children’s personal values and skills to make smart decisions.
Description: What if your son or daughter wants to have a house party with drinking? Yes or no? This video explores this issue.
Usted, su Niño, y La Disciplina Positiva
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author); L. Burt
Description: This fact sheet suggests positive discipline techniques that parents can use to encourage positive behavior. Includes activities and suggestions on further reading. (in Spanish)
White House Conference on Bullying Prevention
Description: On March 10, 2011, President Obama hosted a conference on bullying prevention. The conference brought together students, parents, and teachers to discuss how communities can work together to address bullying.
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Assessing Bullying: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
Description: This brief provides information on who is most likely to be a bully or victim, how to know when conflict has turned into bullying, and ways to reduce bullying. It includes specific questions to assess students' tendencies to bully others, to be victimized by bullying, and to be pro-social and help others.
Description: This brief defines peer conflict, how it differs by age and gender, what factors are associated with youth who engage in aggressive behaviors, and ways to reduce peer conflict. It includes specific questions to assess the prevalence of aggressive behaviors and peer conflict among students.
Dealing with Behavior Problems: The Use of Positive Behavior Support Strategies in Summer Programs
Description: In recent years, positive behavior support (PBS) strategies have been promoted as alternatives to traditional discipline for children and youth. School use of PBS has been shown to significantly reduce the number of children referred to the office for discipline. It also allows administrators and teachers to regain time otherwise spent managing problem behaviors.
Description: Located at the Children's Research Center in a setting conducive to interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service, these projects share their expertise and experience, a library, and common meeting spaces. Several projects share key personnel.
Harnessing the Strengths of African American Families through Family-Based Preventive Interventions
Description: Invited Research Presentation at the 2011 USDA DoD Family Resiliency Conference by Velma McBride Murry of Vanderbilt University. AIDS is the leading killer of African Americans between the ages of 25 and 44. The disparity in HIV infection rate among African Americans youth residing in rural Southern regions of the United States suggests an urgent need to identify ways to reduce HIV-related risk behavior. The challenge is to harness African American families’ protective capacities during middle childhood to foster positive development and limit high risk behaviors through emerging adulthood. Professor Murry speaks on her research with The Strong African American Families (SAAF) program, designed to enhance parenting and family processes which deter early sexual onset and the initiation of alcohol and drug use among rural African American preadolescents.
PROMISING STRATEGIES TO END YOUTH HOMELESSNESS
Description: This report provides strategies to end youth homelessness.
Risk and Resilience in Development
Description: Invited Research Presentation at the 2011 USDA DoD Family Resiliency Conference by Anne Masten of the University of Minnesota. Ann Masten presents research highlights spanning four decades from four waves of research on resilience. Resilience is defined from a dynamic systems perspective. Findings from the world literature are summarized on the key protective systems that generate resilience in human development. Lessons learned and cautions are discussed, particularly in regard to facilitating resilience in families. A general framework for reducing risk and promoting resilience is presented, with examples of different strategies for reducing stress, enhancing adaptive capacity, or promoting recovery among children, youth, and families faced with severe adversity.
Description: Scared Straight and other programs involve organized visits to prison facilities by juvenile delinquents or at-risk kids to deter them from delinquency. Despite several research studies and reviews questioning their effectiveness, they remain in use and have now been tried in at least six nations. The authors report here on the results of a systematic review of randomized experimental tests of this program.