Social-emotional learning (SEL) is an accepted way of promoting an individual’s resilience, which is the ability to overcome challenging life circumstances to lead a fulfilling life. SEL is traditionally taught in schools as a universal, classroom-wide intervention. However, there is currently a gap in using SEL curricula as secondary, Tier II interventions. Strong Start, a SEL program, was evaluated as a Tier II intervention with 35 2nd grade students using a randomized-control trial design. Data were collected from students on their content knowledge of social-emotional constructs as well as from teachers on ratings of student problem behaviors and prosocial behaviors. Findings suggest improvements in student knowledge, teacher ratings of problem behaviors, and teacher ratings of prosocial behaviors for all students over time, with no significant group by time interaction. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T20:04:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 4 / Nenhuma / A presente pesquisa investiga, no contexto das escolas da rede pública estadual do Município de Frederico Westphalen – RS, as expectativas dos educadores relacionadas ao trabalho desenvolvido pela Psicologia Escolar, as implicações e as repercussões desse trabalho na prática educativa. Com a realização desta pesquisa, objetiva-se melhor conhecer a realidade do trabalho desenvolvido pela Psicologia Escolar e compreender o que os educadores esperam desse trabalho para poder, então, identificar possibilidades para o desenvolvimento de ações interdisciplinares, que possam auxiliar os profissionais da área da Psicologia e da Educação no que diz respeito ao cotidiano escolar. Ela foi de natureza qualitativa e os dados foram coletados com discussões no contexto do Grupo Focal e, também pelo diário de campo. Esses dados foram organizados em subsistemas de informações, de acordo com as categorias emergentes da teoria e do procedimento de coleta de dados e, analisados de acordo com o problema e questões de pesquisa, te

A presente pesquisa se propôs a caracterizar a motivação para a aprendizagem de alunos que cursam o Ensino Superior Tecnológico, identificados como cursos de curta duração. Participaram da pesquisa 288 alunos de Instituições de nível superior, públicas e privadas. O questionário utilizado foi o instrumento Escala de Avaliação da Motivação para Aprender para Universitários EMA-U (Boruchovitch e Neves, 2005) já testado e validado nacionalmente, que avalia a orientação motivacional do aluno do ensino superior, considerando os níveis de motivação intrínseca e extrínseca para a aprendizagem. Foi aplicada também a adaptação brasileira da escala de desejabilidade social de Marlowe-Crowne, elaborada por Ribas Jr., Hutz e Moura (2004). O objetivo da pesquisa foi identificar se o fato de escolher um curso tecnológico, com foco na profissionalização, influencia a motivação, comparada aos demais alunos de cursos superiores regulares. As principais bases teóricas do estudo são as teorias sociocognitivas, da autorrealização e das metas de realização. O estudo apontou que os alunos que fizeram parte da amostra apresentam média de motivação intrínseca de (MI=45,23), indicando autonomia e interesse na aprendizagem e também média de motivação extrínseca de (ME= 28,5) com necessidade de reconhecimento externo. Concluiu-se que a motivação extrínseca é significativa para o aluno do curso tecnológico e a motivação intrínseca apresentou índices semelhantes às pesquisas anteriores realizadas com alunos de cursos bacharelados. Os resultados foram discutidos à luz das variáveis examinadas e também dos resultados de pesquisas já realizadas / This study aimed to characterize the motivation of students learning process who attend the Technological Higher Education, identified as short-term courses. The research involved 288 students from public and private higher education institutions. The questionnaire used as a tool for this research was the Scale for Evaluation of Motivation to Learn for Higher Education Students (SML Boruchovitch e Neves, 2005), which has already been tested and validated national wide. This tool evaluates the motivational orientation of the higher education student considering intrinsic and extrinsic levels of motivation related to learning. It was also applied a Brazilian adaptation of the Social Desirability Scale of Marlowe-Crowne, prepared by Ribas Jr., Hutz and Moura (2004). The main objective of the research was to identify whether the fact of choosing a technological course, focused on professionalization, influences the motivational orientation in comparison with other students enrolled in regular college courses. The main theoretical bases for this study are the sociocognitive, self-fulfillment and achievement goals theories. It was found that students Intrinsic Motivation means was (IM) 45.23, indicating autonomy and interest in learning. The Extrinsic Motivation mean was (EM) 28.5, which indicates need of external recognition. Thus, the extrinsic motivation is meaningful to the students of technological courses and intrinsic motivation is similar to that found in previous research with students of bachelor courses. The results were discussed in the light of the variables studied as well results from previous research

Following financial cuts introduced by the government in 2010, fewer funding and decision-making powers are held within local authorities, restricting their role as the provider of public services (Buser, 2013). As a result, the majority of local authority educational psychology teams have adopted a partially or fully-traded model of service delivery, with the aim of generating income to meet some or all service costs (Woods, 2014a). Educational psychologists have expressed concern about whether service commissioners value their distinctive contribution enough to purchase services (Fallon, Woods & Rooney, 2010). This study sought to investigate the response to trading and what impact this has had on the role of the educational psychologist, from the perspectives of service commissioners and educational psychologists. A multiple-case study design was implemented, following a mixed methods approach. Two partially-traded local authority educational psychology services were recruited. Participants from the emerging service included five educational psychologists and three small scale service commissioners. Participants from the established service included three educational psychologists, three small scale service commissioners and two large scale service commissioners. Focus groups, interviews and service brochures provided qualitative data, which were incorporated with quantitative service delivery data. All qualitative data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Findings were presented as thematic maps. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics to describe trends in service use. Findings show that the impact of trading on the role and contribution of the educational psychologist has been largely positive. Trading appears to have had a regenerating effect by creating the opportunity for an extension in the type and range of work now being completed. The findings are discussed in relation to current and future educational psychologist role and give an up-to-date insight into why the role exists, who may be willing to pay for the role and how this evolving role fits within the broader political contexts of education, special educational needs and disability.

Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de compreender como adolescentes e jovens vivenciam a educação escolar, bem como explicitar e analisar elementos reveladores da constituição da consciência, humanizada ou alienada, a partir da discussão de temas referentes à adolescência, educação escolar, realidade social e trabalho. Ao enfocar a constituição da consciência, apresenta a finalidade de identificar e levantar as possibilidades concretamente existentes, no contexto escolar, para a constituição da consciência humanizada na adolescência. Para tal este estudo se fundamenta nos pressupostos da Psicologia Histórico-Cultural, por meio dos conhecimentos elaborados por seus principais autores, Vigotski, Leontiev e Luria, entre outros. Esse trabalho compõe-se de um estudo bibliográfico e de uma pesquisa de campo em que se utilizou a técnica de grupo focal para a obtenção das informações necessárias à sua conclusão e contou com a participação de dezesseis adolescentes da terceira série do Ensino Médio de uma escola da rede pública estadual. As informações contidas no discurso dos jovens forneceram alguns dados sobre a maneira como eles se organizam e percebem a realidade a seu redor, possibilitando elementos para a compreensão acerca da contribuição da educação escolar na constituição da consciência e na compreensão do mundo e da sociedade. As informações obtidas a partir da atividade com os jovens sobre os temas escolhidos apresentaram-se, no contexto do trabalho de campo, como um todo caótico, sendo necessário organizá-las pela mediação das abstrações, para que se pudesse compreendê-las para além de sua aparência e chegar ao que revelavam da realidade estudada. Foram organizadas inicialmente a partir de seu conteúdo externo, por sub-temas e, então, pelo exercício do pensamento analítico, buscou-se compreender suas relações e nexos internos, suas contradições. A análise ressalta a naturalidade e espontaneidade com que os jovens expressam a realidade da qual fazem parte, compreendendo-a em sua forma imediata e manifesta, evidenciando uma relação empírica com esta realidade. A educação escolar a que estes jovens tiveram acesso não lhes possibilitou a formação do pensamento teórico, a partir do qual poderiam compreender a realidade em suas múltiplas determinações e, assim, não lhes foi possível superar a alienação presente em nossa sociedade, elemento constituinte de sua consciência / Current research investigates the manner teenagers and young people experience school education. It also analyzes factors which reveal the constitution of humanized or alienated conscience through discussions on themes dealing with young people, education at school, social reality and work. When conscience formation is focused, the really existing possibilities within the school context are identified and selected so that a humanized conscience may be constituted during the teenage period. Investigation is based on the presuppositions of Historical and Cultural Psychology through factors developed mainly by Vygotsky, Leontiev, Luria and others. Current investigation comprises bibliographical study and field research using focal group technique so that information required for its conclusion may be obtained. It also involved the participation of sixteen young people in the last year of government secondary school. Information contained in the young peoples discourse provided data on the manner they organized themselves and perceived their surrounding reality. This is a factor for the understanding of their contribution in school education in conscience formation and for the understanding of the world and society. Information obtained from activities with young people on chosen themes was somewhat chaotic within the field assignment context. They had to be organized through abstractions so that they could be understood beyond the surface and reach the reality under analysis. They were at first organized according to their external contents by sub-items. Their relationships, internal connections and contradictions were then understood through analytic thought. Analysis highlights the naturalness and spontaneity with which young people express their reality. Since they understand it clearly and without any mediation, an empirical relationship with reality is thus evident. School education to which they had access failed to give them a training in theoretical thought through which they could understand reality in its several determinations. It was not possible for them to overcome alienation, a constituent element in their conscience, in current society

Investiga a possibilidade de uma inspiração pelo referencial psicanalítico na prática do psicólogo escolar. Parte da narrativa e problematização de uma intervenção realizada entre os anos de 1996 e 1997, junto a um grupo de 10 professores de primeiro grau em uma escola pública. Em 2002, retorna a essa unidade escolar e efetua pesquisa com os professores que participaram da experiência, fazendo uso de entrevistas abertas. Por meio desses testemunhos, analisa as conseqüências desse modelo de intervenção, a viabilidade dessa inspiração pelo referencial psicanalítico e a amplitude da possibilidade da extensão dos conceitos psicanalíticos na Cultura. Conclui, com base nos dados obtidos, articulando-os com a sustentação teórica dos pesquisadores do campo da intersecção entre psicanálise e educação, que a experiência possibilitou desvelar aspectos que devem ser tomados como objeto de reflexão: a formação do psicólogo para além da repetição de técnicas; a possível relação do psicólogo com a psicanálise, as implicações da transmissão dessa teoria na graduação de psicologia e as questões subjetivas de cada psicólogo que podem estar ligadas às suas escolhas. Por fim, sugere alterações na forma de transmissão de saber que ocorre nos cursos de psicologia. / It investigates the possibility of an inspiration by the psychoanalitical reference at the practice of the school psychologist. Part of the narrative and problems involved which took place between 1996 and 1997, with a group of 10 teachers from elementary school in a public school. In 2002 there is a return to this school and a research with the teachers who took part in such experience is made, by means of interviews. Through these witnesses, there is an analysis of the consequences of this type of survey, the viability of this inspiration by the psychoanalitical reference and the amplitude of the possibility of the extension of the psychoanalitical concepts in Culture. It concludes that, based on data that we obtained by articulating them with the theorical backup of the field researchers of the intersection between psychoanalysis and education, which the experience made it possible to find out variables that must be taken as an objective of reflection: the background of the psychologist to the repetition of these techniques; the possible relationship between the psychologist and the psychoanalysis, the implications of the transmission of this theory at the graduation of psychology and the subjective issues of each psychologist that may be connected with their choices. Finally, is suggests changes in the ways of transmitting knowledge, which occurs in the courses of psychology.

This thesis deals with the work of school psychologists in the field of teachers burnout syndrom. The purpose of this study is to describe how the school psychologists perceive burnout syndrome, how they contribute in its prevention and solving this problem in schools. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of school psychology according to current Czech law and available studies. The focus is on the work of school psychologists with teachers. The following chapters describe burnout syndrome, its causes, symptoms, prevention and how to handle it. The focus is on the teachers, whose job can be risky due to burnout syndrome. The practical part includes the results of qualitative research. The research was derived through interviews with 11 school psychologists (10 women and 1 man). According to my analysis I found that the school psychologists view burnout syndrom as a genuine problem and also recognise that being a teacher can be a risky occupation. They do not have any appropriate diagnostic tools to detect the professional satisfaction of the teachers. In some cases they monitor the situation at school. While working, they both consciously and unconsciously contribute to the prevention of the teachers burnout syndrome. When the teachers know that the psychologists are there for them, it...

O recorte temático desta tese de Doutorado centra-se no processo de subjetivação da deficiência mental leve, bem como sua produção, a partir da perspectiva das egressas das classes especiais para deficientes mentais leves de escolas públicas no estado de São Paulo. O processo de escolarização é entendido como um elemento de mediação entre o indivíduo e a sociedade, entre o aluno e a deficiência mental leve, o que permite reconhecer a importância das descrições e análises das egressas acerca da passagem pela escola e do processo de enquadramento na condição de aluno especial. O referencial teórico adotado pauta-se em autores da abordagem histórico-cultural em Psicologia Escolar/Educacional, bem como nas discussões de perspectiva histórico-crítica no campo da deficiência mental. Esta pesquisa caracteriza-se como um estudo de caso, que teve como colaboradoras duas ex-alunas de classe especial para deficientes mentais leves, idade de 31 e 34 anos, entrevistadas nos anos de 2002/2003. Foram compilados documentos de prontuários escolares, bem como produções escritas solicitadas pela pesquisadora. Além disso, colaboraram com a pesquisa as mães das entrevistadas. A análise foi dividida em três momentos, a saber, caracterização social e familiar, escolarização na condição de não aprendiz geradora da deficiência mental leve e vivência da exclusão escolar. Foi possível perceber nas histórias das egressas as evidências do processo de classificação e de homogeneização que ocorreram ao longo da escolarização de alunos oriundos das classes trabalhadoras, culminando com a exclusão escolar na condição de deficiente mental leve. Tal condição foi marcada pela descrença na capacidade de aprendizagem e envolveu, contudo, estratégias de resistência tanto das egressas como de suas mães com o intuito de garantir a escolarização. Há um processo de conformação de subjetividade, permeado pela imputação da culpa, de forma dolorosa em que os sentimentos envolvidos puderam ser percebidos em relatos marcados por desamparo, tensão, choro, desespero, revolta, solidão, medo entre outros. As egressas vivenciaram uma história de intensa perda de direitos vitais e sociais, por meio da incorporação da crença da própria incapacidade e da necessidade eterna de tutela dos mais responsáveis, parte desta crença é produzida na relação com educadores e profissionais de saúde. A eficácia do processo de conformação de subjetividade acontece pela responsabilização de si mesma pelo fracasso, associada ao insistente desejo de retorno à escola, uma vez que na realidade são vítimas de uma escola pública historicamente ineficiente inserida numa sociedade excludente / This doctorate thesis focuses on the subjectivation process of students with mild mental handicap, as well as its production, according to the perspective of two former students of public schools from the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The schooling process is understood as a mediation element between the individual and society, between other students and students with mild mental handicap and it allows us to recognize the importance of the descriptions and the analysis of the former students in relation to their passage through the school system and the process of being classified as special students. The theoretical framework is based on authors connected to the socio-historic approach in School/Educational Psychology, as well as the socio-historic discussions in the field of mental handicap. This research is a study case based on two females, aged 31 and 34, who were formerly enrolled as special students and were interviewed between 2002 and 2003. School documentation, written productions, proposed by the researcher, and interviews with the students mothers were used in this study. The analysis was divided into three different moments: social characterization and characterization of the students family; schooling in the condition of a non-learner, generating mild mental handicap; and living school exclusion. Based on the history of the students, it was possible to trace evidences of a classification and homogenization process, taking place during the school years of students who came from working classes, and which culminated in school exclusion of students with mild mental handicap. This situation was marked by a general disbelief in the students learning capacity but had a resistance strategy carried out by both the former students, as well as their mothers, to assure schooling. There is a process of subjective conformation, permeated by a painful plea of guilty in which cry, despair, revolt, solitude and fear are among the feelings expressed by the students. The former students had an intense history of loss of vital and social rights, as they incorporated the belief of their own incapacity and the eternal need for supervision by more responsible people, and part of this belief is produced in the relationship with educators and health professionals. The efficacy of the subjective conformation process is characterized when the students blame themselves for the failure, associated with a constant desire to return to school, once they are actually victims of a public school which is historically inefficient and immersed in a segregating society

Embora a história da Psicologia atualmente seja um fértil campo de produção, ainda são poucos os trabalhos com registros de personagens que viveram esta história e que podem, a partir de seus testemunhos, contribuir para a escrita da mesma. Neste sentido, esta investigação, conduzida com base nos pressupostos da Nova História, teve como objetivo contribuir para a reconstrução da história da constituição do campo de estudo e atuação em Psicologia Educacional e Escolar no Brasil, por meio de depoimentos orais e outras fontes historiográficas. Investigou-se como este campo de conhecimento e prática foi se construindo em nosso solo, especialmente a partir dos anos 1930. Como objetivos específicos, procurou-se identificar as transformações do papel do psicólogo no campo educativo e compreender como ocorreu a inserção desse profissional nos contextos educacionais. Para tanto, a pesquisa construiu um corpus documental composto por fontes historiográficas sobre o tema e depoimentos orais. Foram depoentes cinco personagens pioneiros ou protagonistas da área de Psicologia Educacional e Escolar no Brasil. Definiu-se como pioneiros os primeiros a contribuir para um determinado campo de atuação e como protagonistas, aqueles que colaboraram como personagens ativos num determinado momento histórico da área. Os depoentes também foram escolhidos por terem: a) realizado publicações expressivas na área; b) atuado na área; c) sido docentes e/ou c) participado de órgãos/instituições da área. Os depoentes foram: Samuel Pfromm Netto, Geraldina Porto Witter, Arrigo Leonardo Angelini, Raquel Souza Lobo Guzzo e Maria Helena Souza Patto. O método investigativo utilizou-se da perspectiva da historiografia pluralista e história oral. A análise do corpus documental foi constituída por meio de análise documental (fontes não orais) e construção de indicadores e núcleos de significação dos registros orais. A partir das análises compôs-se um panorama da história da Psicologia Educacional e Escolar brasileira. No escopo do trabalho, são descritos os passos da pesquisa historiográfica, os depoimentos e suas respectivas análises. Cada depoimento foi analisado em separado e, em conjunto, interrelacionando ao restante do corpus documental. Os resultados incluem discussões sobre as transformações no papel, objeto de interesse e de intervenção do psicólogo neste âmbito, as finalidades da Psicologia Educacional e Escolar e a relação entre teoria e prática. É então sugerida uma proposta de periodização da história da Psicologia Educacional e Escolar no Brasil, construída a partir de marcos históricos na área, compreendendo as etapas: 1)Colonização, saberes psicológicos e Educação (1500-1914); 2)A Psicologia em outros campos de conhecimento (1914-1930); 3) Desenvolvimentismo a Escola Nova e os psicologistas na Educação (1930-1962); 4)A Psicologia Educacional e a Psicologia do Escolar (1962-1981); 5)O período da crítica (1981-1990); 6)A Psicologia Educacional e Escolar e a reconstrução (1990-2000); 7)A virada do século: novos rumos? (2000- ). Pode-se afirmar que a Psicologia Educacional e Escolar se fez e se refez ao longo do tempo em diferentes momentos, a partir da sua relação com a Educação e com a conjuntura política, histórica e social. Sua história é marcada por continuidades, descontinuidades, rupturas, reconstruções e uma discussão permanente de seu papel como uma área a serviço de interesses conservadores ou emancipatórios / The history of Psychology is scientific production fertile field, but there is few papers that records the history from protagonist\'s perspective. This thesis shows how Educational and School Psychology was build in Brazil since thirties of last century, using the Annales School perspective, oral history and historiography pluralist. With objectives, this thesis identifies psychologist\'s role at educative field and understand how this professional was inserted in educational context. Thereby, this research gathered several historiographic material and oral testimonies. Five professionals pioneers of this history gave his testimonials about Educational and School Psychology in Brazil. As pioneers, we defined the first ones contributed in significant way at specific moment. The pioneers were chosen from the following: a) being the author of significant publications in the area, b) being a professional who worked with Educational and School Psychology c) being a teacher in the area and/or c) has participated in important institutions in the area. The interviewees were: Samuel Pfromm Netto, Geraldina Porto Witter, Arrigo Leonardo Angelini, Raquel Souza Lobo Guzzo e Maria Helena Souza Patto. All of the research material was composed by documental and oral resources. The investigative method was used from the perspective of pluralist historiography and oral history, an analysis of documents and oral testimony. This analysis produced categories of explanation to understand the testimmonials and historical documents. From that, of the analyzed material was organized so as to obtain a panoramic view of Educational and Scholar Psychology history was built. Then, empirical work, testimonials and his analysis are described. Each testimonials was analyzed singularity and after in total analysis. The results shows discussion about role, interest object and pratic actions in this area, as well as Educational and School Psychology proposes and his relation between theoric knowlegment and professional practices. It is then suggested a proposal of periodization of the history of Educational and School Psychology in Brazil, constructed from landmarks in the area, the periods: 1) Colonization, psychological knowledge and Education (1500-1914), 2) Psychology in other areas of knowledge (1914-1930), 3) Development - the New School and the psychologists in Education (1930-1962), 4) Educational Psychology and Psychology \"of the\" Student (1962-1981), 5) The time of critical studies (1981-1990), 6) Educational and School Psychology - reconstruction (1990-2000); 7) The turn of the century: new directions? (2000 -). The histoy of Educational and School Psychology, had moments of construction and reconstruction from its relationship with Education. It was influenced by the political, historical and social. Their story was continuities, discontinuities, ruptures, reconstructions and constant reflection on their role in society. In a few moments was served conservative interests and other interests emancipatory

The number of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) cases has surged in the U.S. educational system since the mid-2000s. At the same, paraprofessionals who work with these students are not being given adequate training, especially in how to implement applied behavior analytic services. To address paraprofessional's inadequate training, new behavioral treatments have surfaced, including Video Self-Modeling (VSM). VSM is an effective intervention tool derived heavily from Bandura's social learning theory. VSM uses edited video clips in which paraprofessionals view him or herself correctly performing target skills. This study used a single-subject, modified multiple baseline design to evaluate whether VSM could improve the accuracy of procedural integrity when implementing DTI. A sample of 5 novice paraprofessionals was used; all participants worked directly with ASD students with 6 months to 2 years experience, supported an ASD student in an inclusive setting for at least 75% of the school day, and had no previous training in DTI. Three of the 5 participants exhibited immediate and significant gains in DTI implementation, and those gains were maintained during follow-up. One participant demonstrated moderate gain during the follow-up. To determine effective significance, visual analysis, combined with level of performance, non-overlapping data points, and effect sizes were used. VSM treatment was rated as an acceptable treatment according to the social validity scale and the Intervention Rating Profile (IRP-15). This study contributes to positive social change by offering a viable treatment approach that can be used to train paraprofessionals who instruct students with ASD.