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Reference & Reading List

This is the Reference and Reading List which lists the sources of research forming the basis of the RIGHT RESPONSE curriculum. The RIGHT RESPONSE curriculum is grounded on evidence and research-based studies.

Self Awareness

  1. Bracha, H. S. (2004). Does ‘Fight or flight’ need updating? Psychosomatics, 45, 448-449.
  2. Beck, A. (1979). Cognitive therapy and the emotional disorders. New York: Plume.
  3. Cohen, S. (1997). Measuring stress: A guide for health and social scientists. New York: Oxford University Press.
  4. Lazarus, R. S. (1999). Stress and emotion. New York: Springer Publishing Company, Inc.
  5. Manktelow, J. (2003). Techniques for controlling stress. West Sussex: Mind Tools Ltd.
  6. Matsakis, A. (1996). I can’t get over it (2nd ed.). New York: New Harbinger Publications.
  7. McEwen, B., & Lasley, E. N. (2002). The end of stress as we know it. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press.
  8. Selye, H. (1974). Stress without distress (5th ed). Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company.
  9. Selye, H. (1984). The stress of life. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
  10. Understanding stress & stress management. Retrieved April 4, 2007, from http://www.mindtools.com/stress/UnderstandStress/StressPerformance.htm
  11. Zautra, A. J. (2003). Emotions, stress, and health. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Positive Behavior Support

  1. Arndorfer, R. E., & Miltenberger, R. G. (1993). Functional assessment and treatment of challenging behavior: A review with implications for early childhood. Topics in Early Childhood Education, 13, 82-105.
  2. Arndorfer, R. E., Miltenberger, R. G., Woster, S. G., Rortvedt, A. K., & Gaffaney, T. (1994). Home-based descriptive experimental analysis of problem behaviors in children. Topics in Early Childhood and Special Education, 14, 64-87.
  3. Ayllon, T., & Michael, J. (1959). The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2, 323-334.
  4. Carr, E. G. (1977). The origins of self-injurious behavior: A review of some hypotheses. Psychological Bulletin, 84, 800-816.
  5. Chorpita, B. F., Albano, A. M., Heimberg, R. G., & Barlow, D. H. (1996). A systematic replication of the prescriptive treatment of school refusal behavior in a single subject. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 27, 281-290.
  6. Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (1987). Applied behavior analysis. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merril.
  7. Cowdery, G. E., Iwata, B. A., & Pace, G. M. (1990). Effects and side effects of DRO as treatment for self-injurious behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 23, 497-506.
  8. DeLeon, I. G., & Iwata, B. A. (1996). Evaluation of a multiple-stimulus presentation format for assessing reinforcer preferences. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 29, 519-533.
  9. Dunlap, G., Kern, L., dePerczel, M., Clarke, S., Wilson, D., Childs, K. E., White, R., & Falk, G. D. (1993). Functional analysis of classroom variables for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Behavioral Disorders, 18, 275-291.
  10. Fischer, S. M., Iwata, B. A., & Mazaleski, J. L. (1997). Noncontingent delivery of arbitrary reinforcers as treatment for self-injurious behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 30, 239-249.
  11. Fisher, W., Piazza, C. C., Bowman, L. G., Hagopian, L. P., Owens, J. C., & Slevin, I. (1992). A comparison of two approaches for identifying reinforcers for persons with severe and profound disabilities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 25, 491-498.
  12. Foxx, R. M. (1996). Twenty years of applied behavior analysis in treating the most severe problem behavior. The Behavior Analyst,19, 225-235.
  13. Frea, W. D., & Hughes, C. (1997). Functional analysis and treatment of social-communicative behavior of adolescents with developmental disabilities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 30, 701-704.
  14. Hanley, G. P., Piazza, C. C., & Fisher, W. W. (1997). Noncontingent presentation of attention and alternative stimuli in the treatment of attention-maintained destructive behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 30, 229-237.
  15. Hudson, B. L., & Macdonald, G. M. (1986). Behavioural social work. Chicago, IL: The Dorsey Press.
  16. Iwata, B. A., Dorsey, M. F., Slifer, K. J., Bauman, K. E., & Richman, G. S. (1982). Toward a functional analysis of self-injury. Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 2, 3-20.
  17. Koegel, Lynn Kern, Ph. D., Robert L. Koegel, Ph. D., & Glen Dunlap, Ph. D. (1996). Positive behavioral support: Including people with difficult behavior in the community. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.
  18. Lalli, J. S., Casey, S. D., & Kates, K. (1997). Noncontingent reinforcement as treatment for severe problem behavior: Some procedural variations. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 30, 127-137.
  19. Lennox, D. B., & Miltenberger, R. G. (1989). Conducting a functional assessment of problem behavior in applied settings. Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 14, 304-311.
  20. Lerman, D. C., Iwata, B. A., & Wallace, M. D. (1999). Side effects of extinction: Prevalence of bursting and aggression during the treatment of self-injurious behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 32, 1-9.
  21. Linehan, M. (1977). Issues in behavioral interviewing. In J. D. Cone & R. P. Hawkins (Eds.), Behavioral assessment: New directions in clinical psychology (pp. 30-51). New York: Bruner/Mazel.
  22. Mace, F. C. (1994). The significance and future of functional analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 27, 385-392.
  23. Marcus, B. A., & Vollmer, T. R. (1996). Combining noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) and differential reinforcement schedules as treatment of aberrant behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 29, 43-51.
  24. O’Neill, R. E., Horner, R. H., Albin, R. W., Storey, K., & Newton, J. S. (1997). Functional assessment and program development for problem behavior (2nd ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks-Cole.
  25. Romanczyk, R. G. (1986). Self-injurious behavior: Conceptualization, assessment, and treatment. In K. D. Gardow (Ed.), Advances in learning and behavior disabilities (Vol. 5, pp. 29-56). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
  26. Van Houten, R., Axelrod, S., & Bayley, J. S. (1988). The right to effective behavioral treatment. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 21(4), 381-384.
  27. Vaughn, B. J., Clarke, S., & Dunlap, G. (1997). Assessment-based intervention for severe behavior problems in a natural family context. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 30, 713-716.
  28. Vollmer, T. R., Roane, H. S., Ringdahl, J. E., & Marcus, B. A. (1999). Evaluating treatment challenges with differential reinforcement of alternative behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 32, 9-25.
  29. Wacker, D. P., Berg, W. K., Cooper, L. J., Derby, K. M., Steege, M. W., Northup, J., & Sasso, G. (1994). The impact of functional analysis methodology on outpatient clinic services. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 27, 405-407.

De-escalation

  1. Bowen, N. K., & Flora, D. B. (2002). When is it appropriate to focus on protection in interventions for adolescents? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72 (4), 526-538.
  2. Flannery, D. J., Vazsonyi, A. T., Liau, A. K., Guo, S., Powell, K., Atha, H., et al. (2003). Initial behavior outcomes for the Peace-builders Universal School-Based Violence Prevention Program. Developmental Psychology, 39 (2), 292-308.
  3. Karph, A. (2006). The human voice: How this extraordinary instrument reveals essential clues about who we are. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  4. Lacourse, E., Nagin, D., Tremblay, R. E., Vitaro, F., Claes, M. (2003). Developmental trajectories of boys’ delinquent group membership and facilitation of violent behaviors during adolescence. Developmental and Psychopathology, 15, 183 – 197.
  5. Lochman, J. E., Burch, P. R., Curry, J. F., Lampron, L. (1984). Treatment and generalization effects of cognitive-behavioral and goal setting interventions with aggressive boys. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 52 (5), 915-916.
  6. Wilson, S. J., Lipsey, M. W., Derzon, J. H., (2003). The effects of school based intervention programs on aggressive behavior: A meta analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71 (1), 136-149.

Postvention

  1. Adams, R., Boscarino, J., & Figley, C. (2006). Compassion fatigue and psychological distress among social workers: A validation study. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(1), 103-108.
  2. Cline, F., Fay, J. (2006). Parenting with love and logic. Colorado Springs: Pinon Press.
  3. Ellis, S., & Davidi, I. (2005). After-event reviews: drawing lessons from successful and failed experience. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(5), 857-871.
  4. Ellis, S., Mendel, R., & Nir, M., (2006). Learning from successful and failed experience: the moderating role of kind of after-event review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(3), 669-680.
  5. Gately, L., & Stabb, S., (2005) Psychology students’ training in the management of potentially violent clients. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 36 (6), 681-687.
  6. Greene, R. (2001). The explosive child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children.New York: HarperCollins.
  7. Kinzel, A., & Nanson, J. (2000). Education and debriefing: strategies for preventing crises in crisis-line volunteers. Crisis, 126-134.
  8. O’Neill, R., Horner, R., Albin, R., Sprague, J., Storey, K., & Newton, J. (1997). Functional assessment and program development for problem behavior. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole.

Physical Safety

  1. Lebel, J., & Goldstein, R. (2005). The economic cost of using restraint and the value added by restraint reduction or elimination. Psychiatric Services, 56 (9), 1109-1114.
  2. Masters, K. J., & Bellonci, C. (2001). Summary of the practice parameter for the prevention and management of aggressive behavior in child and adolescent psychiatric institutions with special reference to seclusion and restraint. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 40(11), 1356-1358.
  3. Rozalski, M. E., Yell, M. L., & Boreson, L. A. (2006). Using seclusion timeout and physical restraint. Journal of Special Education Leadership, 19(2), 13-29.