
Peers as Change Agents
Renee O. Hawkins, Mary Katherine Gerrard, Christa L. Newman, and Hannah McIntire
in Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
This chapter details the many advantages of utilizing peers as change agents in behavioral interventions, including being a readily available and free resource, increasing opportunities to ...
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Assessment and Intervention with Children and Adolescents Who Misuse Fire: Practitioner Guide
David J. Kolko and Eric M. Vernberg
Children and adolescents in the general population and in clinical populations reveal surprisingly high rates of playing with fire or actual firesetting behavior. A single fire has the ...
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Prevention of Schizophrenia
Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Christian Kohler, and Elaine Walker
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
This chapter introduces the topic with an overview of the current thinking on preventative measures for schizophrenia. It states that there are currently recognized precursors of ...
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Early Interventions with Military Personnel
Maria M. Steenkamp and Brett T. Litz
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Early psychological and mental health interventions are delivered before or soon after the onset of a clinically significant distress or impaired functional capacities, to prevent mental ...
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Supporting low intensity interventions using the telephone
Karina Lovell
in Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions
Chapter 27 discusses LI interventions using the telephone, and aims to provide the rationale, evidence base, challenges, solutions and practical application of delivering low intensity ...
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Caring for Individuals Near the End of Life
Rebecca S. Allen, Hyunjin Noh, Lisa N. Beck, and Laura Jane Smith
in The Spectrum of Family Caregiving for Adults and Elders with Chronic Illness
This chapter presents information regarding the characteristics of caregivers and care recipients in need of palliative and hospice care resulting from the progression of a variety of ...
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Intervention Strategies
Michael McGuire and Alfonso Troisi
in Darwinian Psychiatry
This chapter explores intervention strategies and reviews their efficacy. It discusses prevailing-model interventions (psychoanalytic, psychotherapeutic, behavioral, and sociocultural), ...
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Catastrophically Ill Children, Access to Unregistered Medical Interventions, and Trial Recruitment Needs: An Ethical Analysis
Thomas D. Hartvigsson and Udo Schuklenk
in Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (2 ed.)
This chapter discusses the case of a young girl infected by the Ebola virus during the epidemic outbreak in West Africa. She arrives alone to a medical center run by a non-governmental ...
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Reductive Interventions
Daniel D. Drevon and Michael D. Hixson
in Handbook of Behavioral Interventions in Schools: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Schools ordinarily support establishing or increasing target behaviors, for example, increasing the number of letter sounds mastered or the frequency of social initiations; however, ...
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Tier III Basics
Renee O. Hawkins, Tai A. Collins, Carla Luevano, and Amanda Faler
in Handbook of Behavioral Interventions in Schools: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Within multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), including Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) and Response to Intervention (RTI) models, Tier III represents the most intense ...
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Classroom-Based Services for Adolescents With Mental Health Needs
Lee Kern, Beth Custer, and Imad Zaheer
in School Mental Health Services for Adolescents
The chapter “Classroom-Based Services for Adolescents With Mental Health Needs,” in School Mental Health Services for Adolescents, describes a classroom-based three-tiered framework of ...
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Status Update on the Treatment of Cannabis Use Disorder
Alan J. Budney, Catherine Stanger, Ashley A. Knapp, and Denise D. Walker
in Contemporary Health Issues on Marijuana
This chapter provides an overview of the research-based clinical literature on the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions for those with a cannabis use disorder. The discussion focuses ...
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Social-Psychological Model of Adolescent Suicide
Christopher D. Corona, David A. Jobes, and Alan L. Berman
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Little is known about transgender adolescents in need of particular support. Previous research has noted elevated rates of suicidal ideation and peer victimization among transgender ...
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The LET’s CONNECT Intervention: Targeting Social Connectedness, Bullying, and Youth Suicide Risk
Cheryl A. King, Polly Y. Gipson, and Kiel Opperman
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth between the ages of 10 and 18, and suicidal behavior is far too prevalent. Many suicide prevention strategies have focused on ...
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Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
Tai A. Collins and Renee Oliver Hawkins (eds)
This volume includes a variety of intervention strategies utilizing peers as change agents in school-based interventions. The book presents an updated conceptualization of peer-mediated ...
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Filling in the Gaps
Louis D. Burgio and Matthew J. Wynn
in The REACH OUT Caregiver Support Program: A Skills Training Program for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia, Clinician Guide
This chapter highlights and reiterates important clinical issues, REACH OUT materials, and roadblocks to success. It begins with a few clinical suggestions and a list of materials to bring ...
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Family Support and Participation
Jennifer B.G. Symon and Mendy A. Boettcher
in Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and behavior support interventions that work
This chapter explores family support and participation. It highlights the importance of valuing and including familymembers and the family system when developing intervention plans for ...
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Tier II Basics
Amy Campbell, Billie Jo Rodriguez, and Kristen Schrauben
in Handbook of Behavioral Interventions in Schools: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Schools are charged with the challenge of addressing the complex social and academic needs of an increasingly diverse student body, while simultaneously facing reductions in funding, ...
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Evidence-Informed, Culture-Based Interventions and Best Practices in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
R. Dale Walker and Douglas A. Bigelow
in A Guide to Treatments That Work (4 edn)
This chapter provides information and advice to audiences at the practice, program management, and governance levels concerned with “evidence-based programs and practices” in Native ...
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A New Conceptualization of Peer-Mediated Interventions
Tai A. Collins and Renee O. Hawkins
in Peers as Change Agents: A Guide to Implementing Peer-Mediated Interventions in Schools
This introductory chapter presents an updated and comprehensive conceptualization of peer-mediated interventions based on contemporary research utilizing peers as change agents in schools. ...
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