title: Effectiveness of a social relations intervention program for aggressive and nonaggressive, rejected children.
abstract: A sample of 52 Black aggressive, rejected and nonaggressive, rejected children were randomly assigned to receive a social relations intervention or to be in a nonintervention control group. The school-based intervention for fourth-grade children focused on positive social skill training and cognitive-behavioral strategies to promote deliberate, nonimpulsive problem solving. At both the post-treatment and the 1-year follow-up assessments, the social relations intervention was found to be effective only with the aggressive, rejected children. Implications for the importance of assessing subtypes of rejected children are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lochman
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Coie
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Underwood
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Terry
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012960:Socioenvironmental Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012963:Sociometric Techniques; D016896:Treatment Outcome