Intergenerational effects of parental substance-related convictions and adult drug treatment court participation on children's school performance.

This study examined the intergenerational effects of parental conviction of a substance-related charge on children's academic performance and, conditional on a conviction, whether completion of an adult drug treatment court (DTC) program was associated with improved school performance. State administrative data from North Carolina courts, birth records, and school records were linked for 2005-2012. Math and reading end-of-grade test scores and absenteeism were examined for 5 groups of children, those with parents who: were not convicted on any criminal charge, were convicted on a substance-related charge and not referred by a court to a DTC, were referred to a DTC but did not enroll, enrolled in a DTC but did not complete, and completed a DTC program. Accounting for demographic and socioeconomic factors, the school performance of children whose parents were convicted of a substance-related offense was worse than that of children whose parents were not convicted on any charge. These differences were statistically significant but substantially reduced after controlling for socioeconomic characteristics; for example, mother's educational attainment. We found no evidence that parent participation in an adult DTC program led to improved school performance of their children. While the children of convicted parents fared worse on average, much--but not all--of this difference was attributed to socioeconomic factors, with the result that parental conviction remained a risk factor for poorer school performance. Even though adult DTCs have been shown to have other benefits, we could detect no intergenerational benefit in improved school performance of their children.

Relations parents-enfant et fonctions exécutives des enfants à l’âge de l’entrée scolaire : l’importance des pères

De nombreuses études empiriques ont démontré que la qualité des relations parent-enfant est importante pour le développement des fonctions exécutives (FE) des enfants. Cependant, la majorité des études ont porté sur des échantillons de mères ou de pères, mais non des deux. Le présent mémoire contient un article empirique qui poursuit deux buts. Premièrement, l’article a examiné la contribution unique de la qualité des interactions mère-enfant et père-enfant avec leur bambin (toddler) à la prédiction des FE en milieu scolaire. Deuxièmement, l’article a investigué les effets d'interactions entre la qualité des relations mère-enfant et père-enfant. L’étude a été menée auprès de 46 familles intactes (mère-père-enfant). Lorsque les enfants avaient 18 mois, la qualité des interactions mère-enfant et père-enfant a été mesurée par observation de séquences indépendantes de jeu avec le Mutually Responsive Orientation scale. À la maternelle, les problèmes exécutifs des enfants furent rapportés par le professeur à l’aide du Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function. Les résultats indiquent que les enfants qui ont des interactions de meilleure qualité avec leur père à 18 mois sont ensuite considérés par leur professeur de maternelle comme ayant moins de déficits exécutifs. Cela suggère que la relation père-enfant peut être un facteur important à considérer en ce qui concerne le développement des FE des enfants. Les implications théoriques et empiriques ainsi que les implications pratiques, notamment celles concernant les professeurs, sont abordées lors de la conclusion de ce mémoire.

Access to Better Education: The School Choice Experience of Families Served by Low-Performing Elementary Public Schools in Miami-Dade County

Public school choice education policy attempts to create an education marketplace. Although school choice research has focused on the parent role in the school choice process, little is known about parents served by low-performing schools. Following market theory, students attending low-performing schools should be the primary students attempting to use school choice policy to access high performing schools rather than moving to a better school. However, students remain in these low-performing schools. This study took place in Miami-Dade County, which offers a wide variety of school choice options through charter schools, magnet schools, and open-choice schools. This dissertation utilized a mixed-methods design to examine the decision-making process and school choice options utilized by the parents of students served by low-performing elementary schools in Miami-Dade County. Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with the parents of students served by low-performing schools. Binary logistic regression models were fitted to the data to compare the demographic characteristics, academic achievement and distance from alternative schooling options between transfers and non-transfers. Multinomial logistic regression models were fitted to the data to evaluate how demographic characteristics, distance to transfer school, and transfer school grade influenced the type of school a transfer student chose. A geographic analysis was conducted to determine how many miles students lived from alternative schooling options and the miles transfer students lived away from their transfer school. The findings of the interview data illustrated that parents’ perceived needs are not being adequately addressed by state policy and county programs. The statistical analysis found that students from higher socioeconomic social groups were not more likely to transfer than students from lower socioeconomic social groups. Additionally, students who did transfer were not likely to end up at a high achieving school. The findings of the binary logistic regression demonstrated that transfer students were significantly more likely to live near alternative school options.

Understanding and Developing Parental Involvement In My School

In the early years of the current decade, I spearheaded my school's and school board's participation in a research program on parental involvement led by Kenneth Leithwood from the Ontario Institute for Students in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Despite all the extensive work I did as part of this research program and the ongoing professional reading I have done with respect to parental involvement and engagement, I have yet to share fully the knowledge gained with my staff or our parent community. Therefore, this purpose of this master's project is to provide a means for such dissemination. To do so, I have created two parallel presentations/workshops: one for staff during out first professional development day in September and one for parents at their second Parent Council meeting in October. The final chapter moves beyond these workshops to allow me to reflect on the progress made to date with parental engagement in my school and to look forward toward where I as Principal hope to lead my school community in the future.

Ecuadorian migration and family strategies of social mobility: dialectic relation between emotional and financial capital

This text deals with transnational strategies of social mobility in Ecuadorian migrant households in Spain. We apply the capital accumulation model (Moser, 2009) for this purpose. The main target of this article is, beyond thinking in terms of capital stock and accumulation, the analysis in depth of the dynamics of the different types of capital, that is to say, how they interact with each other in the framework of the social mobility strategies of the migrants and their families. We are bringing into light the way some households adopt investing decisions in capitals that don't translate into any addition or earnings in all cases, on the contrary, concentrating all their efforts on the accumulation of a certain asset they may, in some cases, lead to a loss of another. We will concentrate our analysis primarily on the dynamics between the physical and financial capital and the social and emotional capital, showing the tensions produced between these two types of assets. At the same time, we will highlight how migrants negotiate their family strategies of social mobility in the transnational area. Our study is based in empirical material obtained from qualitative fieldwork (in-depth interviews) with families of migrants in the urban district of Turubamba Bajo -(south of Quito) and in Madrid. A series of households were selected where interviews were carried out in the country of origin as well as in the context of immigration, with different family members, analysing the transnational social and economic strategies of families of migrant members. Family members of migrants established in Spain were interviewed in Quito, as well as key informants in the district (school teachers, nursery members of the staff, etc.). The research was framed within the projects "Impact of migration on the development: gender and transnationalism", Ministry of Science and Innovation (SEJ2007/63179) (Laura Oso, dir. 2007-2010),"Gender, transnationalism and intergenerational strategies of social mobility", Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FEM2011/26210) (Laura Oso, dir. 201-1-2015) and “Gender, Crossed Mobilities and Transnational Dynamics”, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FEM2015-67164).

Receptive Vocabulary of CLIL and Non-CLIL Primary and Secondary School Learners

CLIL instruction has been reported to be beneficial for foreign language vocabulary learning since CLIL students show higher vocabulary profiles than students of their same age in traditional EFL contexts. However, to our knowledge, the receptive vocabulary knowledge of CLIL and non-CLIL learners at the end of primary and secondary education has not been examined yet. Hence, this study aims at comparing the receptive vocabulary size 79 CLIL primary learners with the receptive vocabulary knowledge of 331 non-CLIL learners at the end of primary and secondary school. Sex-based differences were also analysed. The 2k Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) was used for the purposes of the study. Results revealed that learners’ receptive vocabulary sizes lie within the most frequent 1000 words, non-CLIL secondary school students throw better results than primary students but the differences between the secondary group and the CLIL group are not statistically significant. As for sex-based differences, we found no significant differences among the groups. These findings led us to believe that the CLIL approach offers a benefit for vocabulary acquisition since CLIL learners have been exposed to the foreign language for a shorter period of time and the results are quite similar to their non-CLIL secondary school partners.

Sorting Test, Tower Test, and BRIEF-SR do not predict school performance of healthy adolescents in preuniversity education

Executive functions (EF) such as self-monitoring, planning, and organizing are known to develop through childhood and adolescence. They are of potential importance for learning and school performance. Earlier research into the relation between EF and school performance did not provide clear results possibly because confounding factors such as educational track, boy-girl differences, and parental education were not taken into account. The present study therefore investigated the relation between executive function tests and school performance in a highly controlled sample of 173 healthy adolescents aged 12–18. Only students in the pre-university educational track were used and the performance of boys was compared to that of girls. Results showed that there was no relation between the report marks obtained and the performance on executive function tests, notably the Sorting Test and the Tower Test of the Delis-Kaplan Executive Functions System (D-KEFS). Likewise, no relation was found between the report marks and the scores on the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function—Self-Report Version (BRIEF-SR) after these were controlled for grade, sex, and level of parental education. The findings indicate that executive functioning as measured with widely used instruments such as the BRIEF-SR does not predict school performance of adolescents in preuniversity education any better than a student's grade, sex, and level of parental education.

Adolescent substance use in the context of the family: a qualitative study of young people’s views on parent-child attachments, parenting style and parental substance use

Background: Adolescent substance use can place youth at risk of a range of poor outcomes. Few studies have attempted to explore in-depth young people’s perceptions of how familial processes and dynamics influence adolescent substance use.
Objectives: This paper aimed to explore risk and protective factors for youth substance use within the context of the family with a view to informing family based interventions.
Methods: Nine focus groups supplemented with participatory techniques were facilitated with a purposive sample of sixty-two young people (age 13-17 years) from post-primary schools across Northern Ireland. The data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis.
Results: Three themes emerged from the data: 1) parent-child attachments, 2) parenting style and 3) parental and sibling substance misuse. Parent-child attachment was identified as an important factor in protecting adolescents from substance use in addition to effective parenting particularly an authoritative style supplemented with parental monitoring and strong parent-child communication to encourage child disclosure. Family substance use was considered to impact on children’s substance use if exposed at an early age and the harms associated with parental substance misuse were discussed in detail. Both parent and child gender differences were cross-cutting themes.
Conclusion: Parenting programmes (tailored to mothers and fathers) may benefit young people via components on authoritative styles, parental monitoring, communication, nurturing attachments and parent-child conflict. Youth living with more complex issues, e.g. parental substance misuse, may benefit from programmes delivered beyond the family environment e.g. school based settings.

Parental alcohol use and resilience in young people: A study of family, peer and school processes

Funded by HSC R&D Division, Public Health Agency Parental alcohol misuse or ‘hidden harm’ presents a very significant challenge to public health policy and practice in the UK and internationally. A parent’s alcohol problems can have a profound impact on their children. Children depend on their family to meet their physical, psychological and social needs, their economic security and well-being, all of which can be jeopardised by parents misusing substances (NACD, 2011). The prevalence of parental alcohol misuse is extremely difficult to estimate, due to the ‘hidden’ nature of the problem within the family unit. Approximately 40,000 children in Northern Ireland are estimated to live with parental alcohol misuse (DHSSPS, 2008). In the UK, 30% of children (3.3 to 3.5 million) under 16 years, live with at least one binge drinking parent and 22% of children (2.6. million) with a hazardous drinker (Manning et al., 2009).  

A Vinculação e a Auto-Estima em Jovens Não-Institucionalizados Vs. Institucionalizados

Introdução: Uma relação de vinculação segura implica a presença de um modelo representacional das figuras de vinculação como “disponíveis” e capazes de proporcionar protecção e que a qualidade dos cuidados parentais precoce é fundamental a determinar a saúde mental dos indivíduos. Se esta relação assume um enorme relevância para a saúde mental de qualquer ser humano, a institucionalização de crianças/jovens, envolvendo ameaças em termos da disponibilidade das figuras de vinculação constitui uma condição propícia para atrasos de desenvolvimento e aumento da probabilidade do desenvolvimento de sintomatologia psicopatológica. Os objectivos deste estudo passam, então, por analisar as diferenças na vinculação, mas também na auto-estima, de jovens institucionalizados vs nãoinstitucionalizados. Metodologia: A nossa amostra é constituída por 223 jovens nãoinstitucionalizados de duas escolas do Concelho de Coimbra (média de idades M=15.3; desvio-padrão, DP=1.97) e 47 jovens institucionalizados (M=15.5 DP=1.93). Tanto os jovens institucionalizados como não-institucionalizados preencheram um questionário com questões sóciodemográficas, relacionais, escolares, de saúde e bem-estar (com pequenas particularidades em algumas variáveis conforme a sub-amostra), o Inventory of Parent Attachment (IPPA) e a Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). A sub-amostra de jovens institucionalizados respondeu ainda a questões sobre a sua adaptação/vivência ao/no Lar. Resultados: Os rapazes da amostra não institucionalizada apresentam uma pontuação média mais elevada de auto-estima vs. raparigas. Nos jovens institucionalizados não foram encontradas diferenças de género a este nível. Não existem diferenças de género, em ambas as sub-amostras, na pontuação total do IPPA e suas dimensões. Os rapazes nãoinstitucionalizados vs. institucionalizados não divergem na pontuação média total de autoestima. O mesmo sucede com as raparigas. Ambas as sub-amostras não divergem na pontuação média total do IPPA e suas dimensões. Na amostra não-institucionalizada quer nos rapazes, quer nas raparigas não existem diferenças na pontuação total média na RSES, entre os jovens mais novos vs. mais velhos. Na amostra institucionalizada também não se verificam diferenças na pontuação total na RSES por idades. Nos jovens não institucionalizados foram encontradas diferenças na pontuação total média no IPPA (e suas dimensões, à excepção da Alienação), por idade, com os mais novos a apresentarem sempre valores médios mais elevados. Na amostra institucionalizada estas diferenças não se verificaram. Nos rapazes e raparigas da amostra não-institucionalizada verificaram-se associações significativas entre a pontuação na RSES e no IPPA e em todas as suas dimensões. O mesmo se verificou na subamostra institucionalizada. Não existe uma associação significativa entre a pertença a dada sub-amostra e a pertença ao grupo “pouco seguro” vs. “muito seguro”. Apesar de outras associações terem sido encontradas, importa reforçar as associações significativas entre a pontuação na auto-estima e na vinculação total e suas dimensões (quer nos rapazes e raparigas não-institucionalizados, como na amostra institucionalizada) e variáveis como a sintomatologia depressiva, a sintomatologia ansiosa e algumas variáveis relacionais. Discussão/Conclusão: De um modo geral parecem não existir diferenças entre jovens nãoinstitucionalizados vs. institucionalizados em termos de vinculação e de auto-estima. Porém, a uma vinculação insegura e uma menor auto-estima associam-se piores outcomes (e.g. sintomatologia depressiva) em ambas as amostras. Os profissionais trabalhando com adolescentes não-institucionalizados ou institucionalizados devem preocupar-se em avaliar a sua auto-estima e vinculação, procurando, eventualmente, nelas intervir terapeuticamente. / Introduction: It is well kown that a secure attachment relation implies the presence of representational model of the attachment figures as being available and able to provide protection and that the quality of earlier parental care is crucial in determining subjects mental health and there developmental trajectories. If this relation assumes such a big relevance to the mental health of any human being, the institutionalization of children/adolescents, even when truly needed, involving threats in terms of the availability of attachment figures constitutes a condition that might lead to developmental delays and might increase the probability of psychopathological sintomatology developing. The aims of this study are, then, to analyze if there are attachment differences and, also, in self-esteem, between a sub-sample of non-institutionalized and institutionalized adolescents. Methodology: Our sample comprises 223 adolescents non-institutionalized from two schools of Coimbra Council (mean age, M=15.3; standard deviation, SD=1.97) and 47 institutionalized adolescents (M=15.5 SD=1.93). Both sub-samples filled in a questionnaire with sociodemographic, relational, about school, health and well-being questions (with small particularities in some variables, regarding each sub-sample), the Inventory of Parent Attachment (IPPA) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). Institutionalized adolescents also answered questions about the adaptation/life to/in the institution. Results: Boys from the non-institutionalized sub-sample present an higher self-esteem mean score vs. girls. We did not find significant gender differences in self-esteem mean score in the subsample of institutionalized adolescents. There are no gender differences, in both sub-samples, in IPPA (and all its dimensions) total score. Non-institutionalized boys vs. institutionalized boys do not differ in their self-esteem mean score. The same is valid for girls. Both subsamples do not differ in their IPPA (and all its dimensions) mean score. In the noninstitutionalized sample, either in boys, either in girls there are no differences regarding total RSES mean score, between younger (12-15 years old) and older (16-20 years old) adolescents. In the institutionalized sample there were also no differences regarding this score, by age groups. In the non-institutionalized sub-sample we found differences in IPPA total mean score (an in all its dimensions, with the exception of Alienation), by age, with younger adolescents presenting always higher mean scores. In the institutionalized sample there were no differences. Both in boys and girls from the non-institutionalized sample there were significant associations between RSES score and IPPA (and all its dimensions) score. The same result was found in the total institutionalized sample. Although other significant associations were found, we must reinforce the presence of significant associations between self-esteem score and IPPA total score (and of its dimensions) (either in boys and girls noninstitutionalized, either in the institutionalized sub-sample) and variables such as lifetime and depressive symptomatology in the last two weeks, anxious symptomatology in the last two weeks and some relational variables. Discussion/Conclusion: In general, we did not found significant differences between non-institutionalized vs. institutionalized adolescents in terms of attachment and self-esteem. However, a secure attachment and a lower self-esteem are associated with worst outcomes (e.g. depressive symptomatology) in both samples. Professionals working with adolescents, either or not institutionalized must assess their selfesteem and attachment and might, eventually, intervene on these aspects therapeutically.

Capital 2.0 capital formation and legal risk in a new global economic order from fiat to exit: including case studies of the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership between the United States and the European Union and the financing relation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China

Following the intrinsically linked balance sheets in his Capital Formation Life Cycle, Lukas M. Stahl explains with his Triple A Model of Accounting, Allocation and Accountability the stages of the Capital Formation process from FIAT to EXIT. Based on the theoretical foundations of legal risk laid by the International Bar Association with the help of Roger McCormick and legal scholars such as Joanna Benjamin, Matthew Whalley and Tobias Mahler, and founded on the basis of Wesley Hohfeld’s category theory of jural relations, Stahl develops his mutually exclusive Four Determinants of Legal Risk of Law, Lack of Right, Liability and Limitation. Those Four Determinants of Legal Risk allow us to apply, assess, and precisely describe the respective legal risk at all stages of the Capital Formation Life Cycle as demonstrated in case studies of nine industry verticals of the proposed and currently negotiated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States of America and the European Union, TTIP, as well as in the case of the often cited financing relation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Having established the Four Determinants of Legal Risk and its application to the Capital Formation Life Cycle, Stahl then explores the theoretical foundations of capital formation, their historical basis in classical and neo-classical economics and its forefathers such as The Austrians around Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek and most notably and controversial, Karl Marx, and their impact on today’s exponential expansion of capital formation. Starting off with the first pillar of his Triple A Model, Accounting, Stahl then moves on to explain the Three Factors of Capital Formation, Man, Machines and Money and shows how “value-added” is created with respect to the non-monetary capital factors of human resources and industrial production. Followed by a detailed analysis discussing the roles of the Three Actors of Monetary Capital Formation, Central Banks, Commercial Banks and Citizens Stahl readily dismisses a number of myths regarding the creation of money providing in-depth insight into the workings of monetary policy makers, their institutions and ultimate beneficiaries, the corporate and consumer citizens. In his second pillar, Allocation, Stahl continues his analysis of the balance sheets of the Capital Formation Life Cycle by discussing the role of The Five Key Accounts of Monetary Capital Formation, the Sovereign, Financial, Corporate, Private and International account of Monetary Capital Formation and the associated legal risks in the allocation of capital pursuant to his Four Determinants of Legal Risk. In his third pillar, Accountability, Stahl discusses the ever recurring Crisis-Reaction-Acceleration-Sequence-History, in short: CRASH, since the beginning of the millennium starting with the dot-com crash at the turn of the millennium, followed seven years later by the financial crisis of 2008 and the dislocations in the global economy we are facing another seven years later today in 2015 with several sordid debt restructurings under way and hundred thousands of refugees on the way caused by war and increasing inequality. Together with the regulatory reactions they have caused in the form of so-called landmark legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, the JOBS Act of 2012 or the introduction of the Basel Accords, Basel II in 2004 and III in 2010, the European Financial Stability Facility of 2010, the European Stability Mechanism of 2012 and the European Banking Union of 2013, Stahl analyses the acceleration in size and scope of crises that appears to find often seemingly helpless bureaucratic responses, the inherent legal risks and the complete lack of accountability on part of those responsible. Stahl argues that the order of the day requires to address the root cause of the problems in the form of two fundamental design defects of our Global Economic Order, namely our monetary and judicial order. Inspired by a 1933 plan of nine University of Chicago economists abolishing the fractional reserve system, he proposes the introduction of Sovereign Money as a prerequisite to void misallocations by way of judicial order in the course of domestic and transnational insolvency proceedings including the restructuring of sovereign debt throughout the entire monetary system back to its origin without causing domino effects of banking collapses and failed financial institutions. In recognizing Austrian-American economist Schumpeter’s Concept of Creative Destruction, as a process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one, Stahl responds to Schumpeter’s economic chemotherapy with his Concept of Equitable Default mimicking an immunotherapy that strengthens the corpus economicus own immune system by providing for the judicial authority to terminate precisely those misallocations that have proven malignant causing default perusing the century old common law concept of equity that allows for the equitable reformation, rescission or restitution of contract by way of judicial order. Following a review of the proposed mechanisms of transnational dispute resolution and current court systems with transnational jurisdiction, Stahl advocates as a first step in order to complete the Capital Formation Life Cycle from FIAT, the creation of money by way of credit, to EXIT, the termination of money by way of judicial order, the institution of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Court constituted by a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of International Trade and the European Court of Justice by following the model of the EFTA Court of the European Free Trade Association. Since the first time his proposal has been made public in June of 2014 after being discussed in academic circles since 2011, his or similar proposals have found numerous public supporters. Most notably, the former Vice President of the European Parliament, David Martin, has tabled an amendment in June 2015 in the course of the negotiations on TTIP calling for an independent judicial body and the Member of the European Commission, Cecilia Malmström, has presented her proposal of an International Investment Court on September 16, 2015. Stahl concludes, that for the first time in the history of our generation it appears that there is a real opportunity for reform of our Global Economic Order by curing the two fundamental design defects of our monetary order and judicial order with the abolition of the fractional reserve system and the introduction of Sovereign Money and the institution of a democratically elected Transatlantic Trade and Investment Court that commensurate with its jurisdiction extending to cases concerning the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership may complete the Capital Formation Life Cycle resolving cases of default with the transnational judicial authority for terminal resolution of misallocations in a New Global Economic Order without the ensuing dangers of systemic collapse from FIAT to EXIT.

Mesure des comportements des mentors en contexte de mentorat scolaire et liens entre ces comportements, la qualité de la relation de mentorat et l’ajustement des protégés

Les résultats d’études récentes suggèrent que certains comportements de soutien des mentors pourraient augmenter les bénéfices du mentorat scolaire. Cependant, peu d’outils validés sont disponibles dans la littérature pour mesurer ces comportements. Il est aussi convenu que l’efficacité du mentorat scolaire dépend de la qualité de la relation tissée entre le mentor et son protégé, laquelle serait tributaire d’un ensemble de facteurs, dont les comportements du mentor. Néanmoins, encore une fois très peu d’études empiriques ont tenté d’identifier les patrons de comportements des mentors les plus susceptibles d’influencer la relation de mentorat et l’ajustement des protégés. La présente thèse poursuit deux objectifs, soit de construire et valider un outil de mesure des comportements de soutien des mentors oeuvrant en contexte de mentorat scolaire, puis d’explorer les liens entre des comportements de structure et de soutien des mentors, la relation de mentorat et l’ajustement des protégés. L’échelle de comportements des mentors (ECM) a été développée en s’inspirant des prémisses du modèle sociomotivationnel du mentorat (Larose & Tarabulsy, 2014). Deux cent cinquante-trois étudiants du collégial participant à un programme de mentorat scolaire d’une durée de huit mois ont complété une version expérimentale de l’ECM ainsi que différentes mesures de la qualité de la relation de mentorat à deux temps de leur participation au programme. Les résultats montrent que le questionnaire possède de bons coefficients de cohérence interne et une structure factorielle adéquate, à l’exception du facteur soutien à l’autonomie. De plus, trois des dimensions de l’ECM prédisent la qualité de la relation de mentorat et la perception d’utilité de l’intervention. Des recommandations pour l’utilisation et l’amélioration de l’ECM sont proposées. Sur la base des évaluations des protégés à l’ECM (Brodeur et al., 2015), quatre regroupements distincts de comportements de mentors ont été identifiés : Optimal, Suffisant, Contrôlant, et Inadéquat. Les résultats montrent que plus les mentors ont fait preuve de soutien et de structure, plus les protégés ont évalué positivement la relation et l’utilité du mentorat, sauf pour les profils Optimal et Contrôlant. Par ailleurs, uniquement l’ajustement social des protégés a différé du groupe contrôle, et ce proportionnellement à la quantité de soutien et de structure prodigués par les mentors. D’autre part, il est discuté de l’impact de l’ajustement initial des protégés sur les comportements des mentors. Des implications théoriques et pratiques des résultats des deux articles sont présentées. Mots-clés : mentorat scolaire, comportements des mentors, validation de questionnaire, qualité de la relation de mentorat, ajustement des protégés.

La perception de la collaboration école-famille des parents d'élèves victimisés par leurs pairs au primaire

Ce mémoire vise à connaître la perception des parents de la collaboration école-famille principalement lorsque leur enfant est victime de violence à l’école primaire. Un total de 4 394 parents a complété le QSVE/parents (Beaumont Paquet et Leclerc, 2013). Les résultats révèlent que l’ensemble des parents a une perception positive de cette collaboration, mais elle est perçue plus positivement chez ceux ayant des enfants d’âge préscolaire comparativement à ceux de la fin du primaire. Les parents qui croient leur enfant victime de violence montrent cependant une perception plus négative de cette collaboration. Au primaire, c’est près de 20 % des parents qui ont dit avoir rapporté à l’école la victimisation de leur enfant au cours de l’année scolaire. Une relation significative a été observée entre le nombre de fois que les parents ont avisé l’école et leur niveau de satisfaction de l’accueil et de l’aide reçus par les intervenants scolaires. Même si la perception de la collaboration école-famille devient moins positive en fonction du nombre de fois que le parent a signalé cette victimisation, les résultats suggèrent que près de 40 % des parents qui ont signalé quatre fois et plus la victimisation de leur enfant au cours de l’année se sont dits satisfaits de l’aide reçue par l’école. Des pistes de réflexion sont finalement suggérées soulignant l’importance de pousser plus loin la réflexion sur les conditions facilitant la collaboration école-famille dans ce type de situation difficile.

Brief Psychotherapy with Children in a Specialist School: An Exploration of the Underlying Issues for Children and Mainstream Schools

This thesis explores brief psychotherapy with children on placement at a specialist school setting, as part of an on-site, child psychotherapy outreach provision. The study sought to explore two research questions concerning the themes that could emerge in brief work with children and how these themes could be discussed in relation to the understanding formed by their mainstream school teachers. A qualitative research design was used to investigate these questions. The methods used to collect data were case studies, concerning the brief psychotherapy with 4 boys, aged 7 years, and and semi-structured interviews were conducted with the teachers. Thematic analysis was used to explore the data. The themes that were derived from the analysis were described in detail. The research found that brief work has considerable benefit for children and mainstream schools. Through the brief work intervention, the children all made significant progress in all areas of their lives a school. Contributions that the research makes to related fields, the implications that it has for policy and practice and recommendations for future research were all discussed.

Values and Beliefs Held About Parenting and Education by School Staff and Parents of Pupils with Special Educational Needs in the Context of Home- School Collaboration

Effective collaboration between school staff and parents of children identified as having special educational needs is considered to be an essential component of the child’s successful education. Differences in beliefs and perspectives adopted by the school staff and parents play an important role in the process of collaboration. However, little is known about the precise relationship between the beliefs and the process of collaboration. The purpose of this study was to explore the values and beliefs held by the school staff and parents in the areas of parenting and education. The study also explored the link between these beliefs and the process of collaboration within four parent-teacher dyads from mainstream primary schools. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews based on repertory grid technique were used. The findings highlighted an overall similarity in the participants’ views on collaboration and in their important beliefs about parenting and education. At the same time, differences in perspectives adopted by parents and teachers were also identified. The author discusses how these differences in perspectives are manifested in the process of collaboration from the point of Cultural Capital Theory. The factors such as power differentials, trust between parents and teachers, and limited resources and constraints of educational system are highlighted. Implication for practice for teachers and educational psychologists are discussed.