Educators-Researchers

Children with Behavioral & Psychosocial Needs

Evidence Briefs Series

1. Leisure education can increase the frequency of activity involvement of people with mental retardation

Evidence Brief - pdf, 51 kb

2. A self-determination program for preschool-age children at risk for emotional or behavioral disorders may maintain or improve their mental health

Evidence Brief - pdf, 52 kb

3. Recreation therapy based on sequential patterns of social interaction is not effective in improving the social interaction or the activity involvement of people with mental retardation

Evidence Brief - pdf, 52 kb

4. Social-skill training using instructions, prohibitions, or both can improve the social behavior of boys rejected by their peers

Evidence Brief - pdf, 54 kb

5. Both music and nonmusic programs can improve certain social skills in children with moderate intellectual disability

Evidence Brief - pdf, 51 kb

6. Severely disturbed children can learn social problem-solving skills

Evidence Brief - pdf, 52 kb

7. For children with behavior problems, day treatment may be more effective than outpatient services at reducing disruptive behaviors and improving secondary problems

Evidence Brief - pdf, 52 kb

8. Occupational therapy may produce behavioral change in chemically dependent adolescents

Evidence Brief - pdf, 53 kb

9. Educational play may improve the development of preschoolers with neurological impairments

Evidence Brief - pdf, 57 kb

10. Supported employment is more effective than prevocational training at helping people with severe mental illness obtain competitive employment

Evidence Brief - pdf, 60 kb

11. Incorporating a team-building program into the physical education curriculum improves self-concept in middle school students

Evidence Brief - pdf, 69 kb

12. Responsiveness, not praise or mirroring, is the best predictor of children's compliance with mothers' instructions

Evidence Brief - pdf, 62 kb

13. Peer treatment facilitates play, improves social skills, and decreases problem behaviors in maltreated preschool children

Evidence Brief - pdf, 67 kb

14. Trainable mentally retarded children can learn basketball skills and sportsmanship, and generalize the learning to classroom and home

Evidence Brief - pdf, 64 kb

15. Training emotionally deprived preschool children in imaginative play produces affective, cognitive, and social gains

Evidence Brief - pdf, 68 kb

16. Elementary school children can learn principles of back care and use them for at least a year

Evidence Brief - pdf, 67 kb

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