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      Up the Creek without any Pedagogy: Piloting a School-Based Modified DBT-A Skills Program to Support At-Risk Students

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      Date
      2017-09-19
      Author
      Holtby, Tammy Rosanna
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study was to pilot a modified Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) group skills training program for at-risk students in one urban Saskatchewan high school. The study aimed to explore and understand the benefits and challenges of implementing a targeted intervention and to gain insight into the lived experiences of at-risk students using a framework of resiliency research. Research design: Using a convergent parallel mixed-method design, grade nine and ten students received 12 weeks of manual-guided modified DBT-A group skills training. Quantitative data relating to students’ behavioral, emotional, interpersonal, and school functioning were collected at baseline and post-treatment using the BASC-3 (Reynolds & Kamphaus, 2015) and Resiliency Scales for Children (Prince-Embury, 2007). Post-intervention individual interviews and a teacher focus-group interview were conducted, analyzed, and integrated with the quantitative data to create individual resiliency profiles. Overall themes were also identified and discussed in terms of Prince-Embury’s (2007) Three-Factor Model of Resiliency. Results: This study provided preliminary data on the challenges and opportunities of implementing a modified DBT-A group skills training program in a high school setting to support at-risk students, as well as the personal, interpersonal, and contextual risk and protective factors that impact at-risk students’ resiliency and emotional and behavioral functioning at school. Findings served to inform future research on interventions for at-risk students that may be provided by school counsellors in Saskatchewan high schools.
      Degree
      Master of Education (M.Ed.)
      Department
      Educational Psychology and Special Education
      Program
      School and Counselling Psychology
      Supervisor
      Claypool, Tim
      Committee
      Mykota, David; Okoko, Janet; Mousavi, Amin
      Copyright Date
      June 2017
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8111
      Subject
      School-based
      DBT-A skills training
      At-Risk Students
      Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
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