caa a22 4500 463244753 CHVBK 20180405153322.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10935-007-0081-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10935-007-0081-0 Improving Young Children's Social and Emotional Competence: A Randomized Trial of the Preschool "PATHS” Curriculum [Elektronische Daten] [Celene Domitrovich, Rebecca Cortes, Mark Greenberg] : This paper reports the results from a randomized clinical trial evaluating an adaptation of the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies curriculum (PATHS) for preschool-age children in Head Start. PATHS is a universal, teacher-taught social-emotional curriculum that is designed to improve children's social competence and reduce problem behavior. Twenty classrooms in two Pennsylvania communities participated in the study. Teachers in the 10 intervention classrooms implemented weekly lessons and extension activities across a 9-month period. Child assessments and teacher and parent reports of child behavior assessments were collected at the beginning and end of the school year. Analysis of covariance was used to control for baseline differences between the groups and pretest scores on each of the outcome measures. The results suggest that after exposure to PATHS, intervention children had higher emotion knowledge skills and were rated by parents and teachers as more socially competent compared to peers. Further, teachers rated intervention children as less socially withdrawn at the end of the school year compared to controls. Editors' Strategic Implications:n Findings from this and other randomized clinical trials confirm that the Preschool PATHS program is clearly a promising practice for improving children's social and emotional competence. Head Start and school programs will find these multi-informant data to be of interest as they consider a curriculum to help prepare children for school entry. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 preschool-age children nationallicence head start nationallicence prevention nationallicence social-emotional competence nationallicence Domitrovich Celene Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA aut Cortes Rebecca Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Washington, USA aut Greenberg Mark Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA aut The Journal of Primary Prevention Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/2(2007-03-01), 67-91 0278-095X 28:2<67 2007 28 10935 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-007-0081-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-007-0081-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Domitrovich Celene Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cortes Rebecca Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Washington, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Greenberg Mark Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Primary Prevention Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/2(2007-03-01), 67-91 0278-095X 28:2<67 2007 28 10935 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer