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Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities

Mental health and substance use disorders among children, youth, and young adults are major threats...

Preventing trouble: Making schools safer places using positive behavior supports.

Effective management of disruptive behaviors in schools is a national concern. While substantial resources are...

Magnitude of teacher expectancy effects on pupil IQ as a function of the credibility of expectancy induction: A synthesis of findings from 18 experiments

Meta-analysis was used to examine the variability in the outcomes of experiments testing the effects...

A comparison of individual and group contingency systems in a first-grade class

Individual and group management programs have been reported to be effective methods of reducing off‐task...

Stress, cortisol, and externalizing behavior in adolescent males: an examination in the context of multisystemic therapy

Stress and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis dysregulation have been associated with externalizing behavior in adolescence, but...

Service utilization for lifetime mental disorders in U.S. adolescents: results of the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)

Objective Mental health policy for youth has been constrained by a paucity of nationally representative...

Evidence-based kernels: fundamental units of behavioral influence

This paper describes evidence-based kernels, fundamental units of behavioral influence that appear to underlie effective...

The good behavior game and the future of prevention and treatment

The Good Behavior Game (GBG), a universal classroom behavior management method, was tested in first-...