Predicting Positive Outcomes for Students With Emotional Disturbance

Factors Predicting Positive Outcomes

Commentary on “Constructing New Theory for Identifying Students with Emotional Disturbance”

First we would like to commend and thank Dr. Dori Barnett for her willingness to submit her work for the purpose of acting as a constructivist grounded theory research exemplar, with the understanding that she was subjecting her work to the scrutiny of researchers from another grounded theory tradition. We have developed this commentary on Dr. Barnett’s work in the spirit of respect and colleag...

Constructing New Theory for Identifying Students with Emotional Disturbance: A Constructivist Approach to Grounded Theory

A grounded theory study that examined how practitioners in a county alternative and correctional education setting identify youth with emotional and behavioral difficulties for special education services provides an exemplar for a constructivist approach to grounded theory methodology. Discussion focuses on how a constructivist orientation to grounded theory methodology informed research decisi...

Outcomes for youths with serious emotional disturbance in secondary school and early adulthood.

Data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students are used to describe the high school performance, social experiences, postsecondary education and labor market participation, and residential independence of students with serious emotional disturbance (SED) nationally. Young people with SED are found to fare poorly compared with youths with disabilities as a who...

Predicting Readiness for Substance Dependence based on Positive Psychological States of University Students

Objective: The purpose of this study was to predict readiness for substance dependence based on studentschr('39') positive psychological states in 2017-2018. Method: This study was a descriptive-correlational design. The statistical population was students of Amol Payame Noor University who were studying in the academic year of 2017-2018. Among them, 118 male and female students were selected t...