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Conduct Problems and Treatment across Home and School: A Review of the Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

Emma Little  and
Alan Hudson
Emma Little
Affiliation:
RMIT University
Alan Hudson*
Affiliation:
RMIT University
*
Department of Psychology and Intellectual Disability Studies, RMIT University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia. E-mail: hudson@rmit.edu.au
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Treatment of conduct problems in the home setting has received much attention in the literature, and there are well established, empirically derived treatment programs that have been demonstrated to be effective. However, treatment for conduct problems in the classroom has not received a comparable amount of attention, and the intervention programs are diverse, occasionally lacking empirical support, and often not consistent with strategies used in the home setting. As past research has demonstrated that conduct problems in multiple settings is related to poorer prognosis, it is logical to suggest that interventions should focus on as many of the settings as possible in which a child displays the behaviour problems. This paper reviews the literature on the effects of conduct problems in the classroom, on teacher managerial skills, and on interventions across the home and school settings. It is concluded that classroom management of conduct problems could be improved by providing a hierarchical system of intervention strategies.

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Behaviour Change , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 213 - 227
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1998

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