Beyond Disaster Preparedness: Building a Resilience-Oriented Workforce for the Future.

Enhancing citizens' and communities' resilience is critical to adapt successfully to ongoing challenges faced by communities, as well as acute shocks resulting from disasters. While significant progress has been made in this area, several research and practice gaps remain. A crucial next step to advance resilience is the development of a resilience-oriented workforce.

Parent attendance and homework adherence predict response to a family-school intervention for children with ADHD.

This study examined the relative contribution of two dimensions of parent engagement, attendance and homework adherence, to parent and child treatment response and explored whether early engagement was a stronger predictor of outcomes than later engagement. The sample consisted of parents of participants (n = 92; M age = 9.4 years, SD = 1.

Multidimensional assessment of homework: an analysis of students with ADHD.

Objective: Homework can have beneficial effects for students; however, it presents challenges, particularly for students with attention problems. Although effective homework interventions exist, intervention development and evaluation has been hampered by the lack of psychometrically sound measures. The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the construct validity of the Homework Performance Questionnaire (HPQ), Parent and Teacher Versions, in a sample of children with ADHD.

Initial validation of a knowledge-based measure of social information processing and anger management.

Over the past fifteen years many schools have utilized aggression prevention programs. Despite these apparent advances, many programs are not examined systematically to determine the areas in which they are most effective. One reason for this is that many programs, especially those in urban under-resourced areas, do not utilize outcome measures that are sensitive to the needs of ethnic minority students.

Psychosocial factors and health perceptions in parents and children who are overweight or obese.

This study examined the relationships among weight status (BMI), health perceptions, and psychosocial characteristics in children, parents, and parent-child dyads. A convenient sample of 114 parent-child dyads participated. All children were overweight or obese.

An Analysis of Teacher Investment in the Context of a Family-School Intervention for Children with ADHD.

Intervention researchers have often failed to assess treatment integrity; when integrity is examined, the focus is typically on whether the steps of intervention have been applied and not on quality of implementation. In the few studies that have investigated intervention quality, the emphasis has been on how intervention is delivered and not how it is received or the degree of participant engagement. This study was designed to examine participant engagement, specifically teacher investment, in the context of family interventions for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that were linked with the school.

Parents' perspectives on access to rehabilitation services for their children with special healthcare needs.

Purpose: This study examined parents' (caregivers') perspectives on problems related to access to therapy services for their children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) as predicted by child, family, and health insurance characteristics.

Methods: Secondary data analysis was conducted using the Family Partners Project database. A subsample of 1027 parents of CSHCN who received rehabilitation services in the year before the study were the participants.

Variations in anxiety and depression as a function of ADHD subtypes defined by DSM-IV: do subtype differences exist or not?

Concerns have been raised about the ability of diagnostic criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to distinguish subtypes that are clearly distinct from each other with regard to clinical correlates. One area of concern is that research regarding differences in anxiety and depression as a function of ADHD subtype has produced discrepant findings. This study was designed to systematically evaluate whether the ADHD subtypes differ with regard to level of internalizing symptoms.