Antisocial Behavior in School: Strategies and Best Practices

Abstract

Antisocial Behaviour Patterns in Children and Youth: Behavioural Characteristics, Causal Factors and Long-Term Negative Outcomes. Issues, Guidelines and Procedural Recommendations Regarding the Implementation and Delivery of Intervention Strategies Within Public School Settings. Establishing a School-Wide Discipline Plan. Instructing and Managing the Classroom Environment. Managing the Antisocial Student in the Classroom Setting. Managing the Antisocial Student on the Playground. Parent Involvement in the Schooling of Antisocial Students. Social Skills: Universal and Selected Interventions. Case Study Applications of Best Practices with Antisocial Students. Appendix A: Empirical Foundations in Discriminating, Predicting and Changing Aggressive, Antisocial Behaviour in School and Home Settings. Exhibit 1: The Influence of Arrest Status and Special Education Certification on Adjustment Status for At-Risk Students: Markers for Negative Developmental Outcomes. Exhibit 2: Regular Classroom Behavioural Profiles of Negative/Aggressive Versus Acting Out/Disruptive Students in the Primary Grades. Exhibit 3: Comparisons of the School Adjustment Status of Middle School, At-Risk Boys Who Are: (1) Deviant in Two or More Settings, (2) Deviant in Only One Setting and (3) Deviant in No Settings. Exhibit 4: Adjustment Profiles of Antisocial and At-Risk Middle School Boys. Exhibit 5: Positive Versus Negative Social Behavior in Discriminating Antisocial and At-Risk Students Within Playground and Classroom Settings. Exhibit 6: Differential Parenting Profiles that Discriminate Antisocial and At-Risk Students. Exhibit 7: The Path from Failed Parenting to Antisocial Behaviour in School to Delinquency in Adolescence. Exhibit 8: Generalization of Antisocial Behaviour Patterns from Home to School. Exhibit 9: The Efficacy of Praise, Token Reinforcement and Cost Contingency in Reducing Negative-Aggressive Social Interactions Among Antisocial Boys. Exhibit 10: Regular Classroom Applications of Reinforcement and Cost Contingency in Reducing Negative-Aggressive Social Interactions. Exhibit 11: The Efficacy of a Response-Cost Intervention for Increasing Positive Social Interactions Within Free-Play Settings. Exhibit 12: Cost Contingency and Its Frequency of Use in Maintaining Behavioural Levels. Exhibit 13: External Replications of the RECESS Program for Aggressive Students.