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View article: Preschool Expulsion Risk Factors: Teachers’ Ratings of Preschoolers’ Challenging Behaviors Vary by the Cooperativeness of their Parents
Preschool Expulsion Risk Factors: Teachers’ Ratings of Preschoolers’ Challenging Behaviors Vary by the Cooperativeness of their Parents Open
Preschool children in the United States are expelled at a rate of about 250 per day with a disproportionate number being Black children. There is a need to better understand how to prevent preschool expulsion. Using a random-assignment exp…
View article: Interrogating the role of anti-Blackness in the early care and education experiences of Black children and families: A call for advancing equitable science and practice
Interrogating the role of anti-Blackness in the early care and education experiences of Black children and families: A call for advancing equitable science and practice Open
View article: How Can Implementation Science Advance Behavioral Interventions in Preschool? A Scoping Review and Recommendations
How Can Implementation Science Advance Behavioral Interventions in Preschool? A Scoping Review and Recommendations Open
View article: A Systematic Review of Interventions to Promote Parent-Teacher Relationships in Early Care and Education: Exploring the Social Process Between Parents and Teachers
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Promote Parent-Teacher Relationships in Early Care and Education: Exploring the Social Process Between Parents and Teachers Open
Parent-teacher relationships are known to promote positive outcomes for young children in early childhood education; however, parents and teachers face barriers to forming quality relationships. To better understand how to support parents …
View article: Where does physical activity fit into preschool postpandemic? A qualitative exploration with parents, teachers and administrators
Where does physical activity fit into preschool postpandemic? A qualitative exploration with parents, teachers and administrators Open
Objectives During the preschool years, children depend on adult caregivers to provide opportunities for physical activity (PA). Research has focused on measuring PA in preschool, as well as barriers and facilitators to children’s PA but ca…
View article: What Do Teachers Do When Preschoolers “Misbehave”? Family Matters
What Do Teachers Do When Preschoolers “Misbehave”? Family Matters Open
There are documented disparities in how preschool teachers perceive and respond to challenging behavior in the classroom. Teachers’ decision-making processes when handling challenging behavior and how they include families in the process i…
View article: Non-pharmacological interventions for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents
Non-pharmacological interventions for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents Open
View article: Qualitative Investigation of Educator and Parent Experiences of Education Services During COVID-19
Qualitative Investigation of Educator and Parent Experiences of Education Services During COVID-19 Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a worldwide disruption of education service systems. A significant gap has emerged in understanding the impact of these changes to both educational services and child development. The current qualitati…
View article: Latina Mothers of Young Children With Special Needs: Personal Narratives Capturing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Latina Mothers of Young Children With Special Needs: Personal Narratives Capturing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The Latino community has been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in unique challenges. This paper explores the lived experiences of five Spanish-speaking Latina mothers of young children receiving early childho…
View article: Harmonizing Depression Measures Across Studies: a Tutorial for Data Harmonization
Harmonizing Depression Measures Across Studies: a Tutorial for Data Harmonization Open
View article: Mediators of psychosocial treatment for adolescent ADHD.
Mediators of psychosocial treatment for adolescent ADHD. Open
Psychosocial treatments for adolescent ADHD primarily improve ADHD symptoms through development of teen organization, time management (OTP), and parent-teen communication skills, as well as slowing deterioration of social skills. (PsycInfo…
View article: Study protocol of a randomised trial of Summer STRIPES: a peer-delivered high school preparatory intervention for students with ADHD
Study protocol of a randomised trial of Summer STRIPES: a peer-delivered high school preparatory intervention for students with ADHD Open
Introduction High schoolers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience substantial impairments, particularly in the school setting. However, very few high school students with ADHD receive evidence-based interventions …
View article: Evaluation Report of the Implementation of Illinois Public Act 100-0105: Early childhood programs’ knowledge of and responses to the 2018 expulsion legislation
Evaluation Report of the Implementation of Illinois Public Act 100-0105: Early childhood programs’ knowledge of and responses to the 2018 expulsion legislation Open
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Nationwide, preschoolers are being expelled at alarming rates, upwards of 250 a day by some accounts. Given the critical role of early childhood education (ECE) in supporting children’s school readiness, there is a grave …
View article: An Examination of the Parent-teacher Relationship as Universal Protection against Preschool Expulsion
An Examination of the Parent-teacher Relationship as Universal Protection against Preschool Expulsion Open
Across the United States, rates of preschool expulsion exceed those in K-12 and relatively little is known of how to prevent such disciplinary decisions. Adding to the concerning rate in which children are being expelled, is that preschool…
View article: Neuropsychological changes in patients with substance use disorder after completion of a one month intensive outpatient treatment program
Neuropsychological changes in patients with substance use disorder after completion of a one month intensive outpatient treatment program Open
Background and Objectives Data suggest individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) exhibit high rates of executive functioning (EF) impairment, and that EF level can predict treatment retention. The primary aim of the present study was …
View article: Symptom Dimensions and Trajectories of Functioning Among Bipolar Youth: A Cluster Analysis
Symptom Dimensions and Trajectories of Functioning Among Bipolar Youth: A Cluster Analysis Open
Background: Accurate assessment of pediatric bipolar disorder (BD) is important for allocating appropriate treatment, but it is complicated by significant heterogeneity in symptom presentation and high rates of comorbidity. Investigating c…
View article: Early risk pathways to physical versus relational peer aggression: The interplay of externalizing behavior and corporal punishment varies by child sex
Early risk pathways to physical versus relational peer aggression: The interplay of externalizing behavior and corporal punishment varies by child sex Open
Children who aggress against their peers may use physical or relational forms, yet little research has looked at early childhood risk factors and characteristics that uniquely predict high levels of relational versus physical aggression in…
View article: Profiles of School-Based Peer Aggression
Profiles of School-Based Peer Aggression Open
Research on school-based aggression has often described children’s involvement in peer aggression as either a target or aggressor and has not explored how children may endorse various levels of involvement. Using Latent Class Analysis, thi…
View article: Further Evidence for Smoking and Substance Use Disorders in Youth With Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Conduct Disorder
Further Evidence for Smoking and Substance Use Disorders in Youth With Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Conduct Disorder Open
The results provide further evidence that adolescents with BPD, particularly those with comorbid CD, are significantly more likely to endorse cigarette smoking and SUDs when compared to their non-mood disordered peers. These findings indic…
View article: Nonmedical Stimulant Use in College Students
Nonmedical Stimulant Use in College Students Open
Our data suggest that, compared to controls, college students who misuse stimulant medications are more likely to have ADHD, conduct disorder, stimulant and other substance use disorder, and overall dysfunction.