Coping Power Dissemination Study: Intervention and Special Education Effects on Academic Outcomes

Autor/inn/en	Lochman, John E.; Boxmeyer, Caroline L.; Powell, Nicole P.; Qu, Lixin; Wells, Karen; Windle, Michael
Titel	Coping Power Dissemination Study: Intervention and Special Education Effects on Academic Outcomes
Quelle	In: Behavioral Disorders, 37 (2012) 3, S.192-205 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0198-7429
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Grades (Scholastic); Risk; Special Education; Aggression; Early Intervention; Control Groups; Coping; Language Arts; Prevention; Mathematics; Counseling Techniques; Behavior Problems; Interpersonal Competence; Academic Achievement; Teacher Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Notenspiegel; Risiko; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Bewältigung; Sprachkultur; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Mathematik; Counseling technique; Counselling technique; Counselling techniques; Beratungsmethode; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Schulleistung; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	This study examines whether a school-based preventive intervention for children with aggressive behavior affects children's academic outcomes when it is implemented by school counselors in a dissemination field trial. The Coping Power program targets empirical risk factors for aggressive behavior and focuses primarily on teaching social and emotional skills rather than directly intervening around academic performance. This study examined the long-term effects (2 years postintervention) of Coping Power on language arts and mathematics grades in 531 children from 57 schools. Prior analyses found that students of counselors who received intensive training in how to implement Coping Power (CP-IT) had broad improvements in teacher-rated social and academic skills and in teacher-, parent-, and self-reported externalizing behavior problems in comparison to children in a control group and to children whose counselor received more basic training in Coping Power (Lochman et al., 2009). In the present study, students with CP-IT counselors had smaller declines in language arts grades through a 2-year follow-up than children in the control group. Significant effects of CP-IT on mathematics grades were not observed. Special education status did not moderate intervention effects, indicating that special education students' academic outcomes were affected in similar ways by the intervention in comparison with students not in special education. Intervention effects were not evident for children who had basic-trained counselors. These findings have implications for educational policy and underscore the potential for school-based social-emotional interventions such as Coping Power to have a long-term impact on children's academic outcomes. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders. Council for Exceptional Children, 1110 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201-5704. Tel: 612-276-0140; Fax: 612-276-0142; Web site: http://www.ccbd.net/publication/behavioraldisorders
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10