KooLKIDS

Empowering children to live well with themselves and others

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    Grants

    Emotion Regulation and Academic Performance: Building positive social and emotional wellbeing in children in the primary school years. ARC Special Research Initiative Science of Learning Research Centre Scheme (2013-2020)

    Structural Relations of Loners', Loneliness, and Antisocial Behaviour in Children and Adolescents: Building a Conceptual Model for Effective Interventions. ARC Discovery Grant Scheme (2011-2014).

    Trajectories of Childhood Antisocial Behaviour: A New Model and Prevention Program for the Early Onset Life Course Persistent Offender. ARC Discovery Grant Scheme (2006-2009).

    Publications

    Carroll, A., McCarthy, M., Houghton, S., & Sanders-O'Connor, E. (2020). Evaluating the effectiveness of KooLKIDS: An interactive social emotional learning program for Australian primary school children. Psychology in the Schools, 57(6), 851-867.

    Carroll, A., Houghton, S., Forrest, K., McCarthy, M., & Sanders-O’Connor, E. (2020). Who benefits most? Predicting the effectiveness of a social and emotional learning intervention according to children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties. School Psychology International, 41(3), 197-217.

    Carroll, A., McCarthy, M., Houghton, S., Sanders-O’Connor, E., & Zadow, C. (2018). Reactive and proactive aggression as meaningful distinctions at the variable and personal level in primary school-aged children. Aggressive Behaviors, 44, 431-441. 1-11. DOI: 10.1002/ab.21763

    Carroll, A., Sanders-O’Connor, E., Houghton, S., Hattie, J., Lynn, S., & Donovan, C. (2017). A preliminary empirical evaluation of KooLKIDS: A school-based program to reduce early onset antisocial behavior in children. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 42 (1), 22-35. DOI: 10.3109/13668250.2016.1190004).

    Houghton, S., Carroll, A., Sanders-O’Connor, E., & Crow, J. (2016). Childhood onset conduct disorder: Breaking the cycle of crime and violence early though the implementation of the KooLKIDS school-based interactive intervention program. In M. Taylor, U. Khan, & J.A. Pooley (Eds.), Crime and violence prevention: Moving beyond hot-stove policing and perpetrator rehabilitation (pp. 177-196). New York: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-63483-792-7.

    Houghton, S., Carroll, A., Zadow, C., Sanders-O’Connor, E., Hattie, J., & Lynn, S. (2017). Treating Children with Early Onset Conduct Problems and Callous Unemotional Traits: An Empirical Evaluation of KooLKIDS. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 22 (4), 350-364. DOI 10.1080/13632752.2017.1301646.

    Sanders-O’Connor, E., Carroll, A., Houghton, S., & Donovan, C. (2016). A contemporary review of childhood antisocial behaviour in school settings. In M. Taylor, U. Khan, & J.A. Pooley (Eds.), Crime and violence prevention: Moving beyond hot-stove policing and perpetrator rehabilitation (pp.197-214). New York: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-63483-792-7.