Emotional competence programs in middle childhood: a meta-analysisAbstract: Background: Learning basic emotional competencies is a central developmental task for children, as these are related to the development of ...
Aims: The present paper aims at evaluating the effectiveness of the community-based substance use prevention program “Wegschauen ist keine Lösung”. Methods: Communities of the district of Karlsruhe were divided into a group with high (HIG) and low (LIG) ...
Promoting Phonological Awareness in German: A Meta-AnalysisAbstract. International meta-analyses show significant effects of phonological awareness training on the acquisition of written language. In the present meta-analysis of 27 primary studies the ...
Advanced nursing practice model for head and neck cancer: A practice development projectAbstract.Background: Head and neck cancer confronts patients and their families with big challenges due to complex treatments as well ...
Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly ...
Summary In this paper, conceptual and methodological problems of school program evaluation are discussed. The data were collected in conjunction with a 10 year cross-sectional/longitudinal investigation with partial inclusion of control groups. The ...
Background: Police suicides are an important problem, and many police forces have high rates. Montreal police suicide rates were slightly higher than other Quebec police rates in the 11 years before the program began (30.5/100,000 per year vs. 26.0/100,...
Background: Thousands of children are bereaved each year by suicide, yet there exists very little literature specifically on the psychological care, programs, and interventions available to help them. Aims: (1) To build and validate theoretical models for ...
Abstract.Background: Although communication is a key component of US strategies to prevent suicide and there are a number of marketing campaigns promoting messages that suicide is a preventable public health ...
Abstract: The aim of this research was to design a program of psychological intervention for adolescents and to assess its effects on factors of emotional development. The study used a pretest-intervention-posttest design with control groups and a sample ...