Steven Forness
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- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Masters Psychology Stanford University
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steven Forness is a psychologist doing research in the field of emotional disorders in children. His main interest is the "early detection and eligibility of children with psychiatric disorders for special education services in public schools". He has earned many awards and is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Published Works
- Social Skill Deficits and Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis (1996) (565)
- History, Rhetoric, and Reality (2000) (321)
- A Meta-Analysis of Social Skill Interventions for Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders (1999) (308)
- What Definitions of Learning Disability Say and Don't Say (2000) (306)
- Behavior Problems, Academic Skill Delays and School Failure Among School-Aged Children in Foster Care: Their Relationship to Placement Characteristics (2000) (246)
- A new proposed definition and terminology to replace "serious emotional disturbance" in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (1992) (223)
- Special Education Implications of Point and Cumulative Prevalence for Children With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders (2012) (220)
- Substance over Style: Assessing the Efficacy of Modality Testing and Teaching (1987) (212)
- Comorbidity of Hyperactivity-Impulsivity-Inattention and Conduct Problems: Risk Factors in Social, Affective, and Academic Domains (1998) (198)
- Treating Social Skill Deficits in Children with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis of the Research (1996) (196)
- Mega-Analysis of Meta-Analyses (1997) (181)
- Social Skills Interventions with Students with Emotional and Behavioral Problems: A Quantitative Synthesis of Single-Subject Research (1998) (164)
- Full Inclusion: An Empirical Perspective (1996) (154)
- A Meta-Analysis of the Validity of Wechsler Scale Profiles and Recategorizations: Patterns Or Parodies? (1984) (150)
- Handbook of learning disabilities (1987) (145)
- Hyperactivity and Diet Treatment (1983) (128)
- The science of learning disabilities (1985) (120)
- Some Methods Are More Effective Than Others (1998) (113)
- Bridging the Special Education Divide (2000) (111)
- Students Identified as Seriously Emotionally Disturbed in School-Based Day Treatment: Cognitive, Psychiatric, and Special Education Characteristics (1995) (104)
- The Nature of Learning Disabilities: Critical Elements of Diagnosis and Classification (1995) (101)
- School Context and the Academic and Behavioral Progress of Students with Emotional Disturbance (2011) (94)
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of the First Step to Success Early Intervention (2009) (91)
- Prevalence of Students with EBD: Impact on General Education. (2012) (90)
- Early Detection and Prevention of Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: Developmental Aspects of Systems of Care (1996) (85)
- Efficacy of Special Education and Related Services (1999) (81)
- Psychiatric consultation in severe and profound mental retardation. (1994) (81)
- Gender and Sociodemographic Factors and the Disproportionate Identification of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Emotional Disturbance (2002) (80)
- A model for early detection and primary prevention of emotional or behavioral disorders (2000) (79)
- Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: Background and Current Status of the E/BD Terminology and Definition (2000) (77)
- Sheltered homeless children: their eligibility and unmet need for special education evaluations. (1997) (77)
- Early Identification and Intervention: Head Start's Response to Mental Health Challenges (2000) (76)
- Using Different Measures, Informants, and Clinical Cut-Off Points to Estimate Prevalence of Emotional or Behavioral Disorders in Preschoolers: Effects on Age, Gender, and Ethnicity (2005) (75)
- Use and persistence of pharmacotherapy for elementary school students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (2005) (72)
- Special Education Identification of Head Start Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Second Grade (1998) (71)
- The Pursuit of Evidence-Based Practice in Special Education for Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders (2005) (71)
- Macro-Social Validation: Referencing Outcomes in Behavioral Disorders to Societal Issues and Problems (1998) (70)
- The Politics of Learning Disabilities (1998) (68)
- Spanish Translation and Reliability Testing of the Child Depression Inventory (2004) (67)
- ADHD and a Return to the Medical Model of Special Education. (2001) (63)
- Primary Prevention with Children at Risk for Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: Data on a Universal Intervention for Head Start Classrooms (2000) (63)
- Social Skills Deficits in Learning Disabilities: The Psychiatric Comorbidity Hypothesis (1996) (59)
- Learning Disability Discrepancy Formulas: Their Use in Actual Practice (1983) (56)
- Academic deficits in emotionally disturbed children revisited. (1983) (55)
- Special Education and Related Services: What Have We Learned From Meta-Analysis? (2001) (52)
- Conduct Disorders in School (1993) (52)
- Practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with language and learning disorders. AACAP. (1998) (52)
- Education of Exceptional Learners (1977) (50)
- Impact of ADHD on school systems. (2002) (47)
- Intervention Versus Affirmation (1998) (45)
- Planning for the Needs of Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance: The National Special Education and Mental Health Coalition (1988) (44)
- Learning Disability and the History of Science: Paradigm or Paradox? (1985) (41)
- Classroom Observation of Children with Learning ond Behavior Problems (1975) (41)
- Cognitive Processing of High-Functioning Autistic Children: Comparing The K-ABC and the WISC-R (1985) (40)
- Meta-Analytic Validation of the Dunn and Dunn Model of Learning-Style Preferences: A Critique of What Was Dunn. (1998) (40)
- Early Language Intervention (1988) (40)
- Auditory and Visual Perception Processes and Reading Ability: A Quantitative Reanalysis and Historical Reinterpretation (2000) (39)
- School Context and the Problem Behavior and Social Skills of Students with Emotional Disturbance (2010) (39)
- Legalism versus Professionalism in Diagnosing SED in the Public Schools. (1992) (39)
- Psychiatric Diagnosis: a Study of Its Relationship To School Needs (1985) (37)
- Simple versus Complex Conduct Disorders: Identification and Phenomenology (1994) (37)
- Substance over Style: A Rejoinder to Dunn's Animadversions (1990) (36)
- The Far Side of Heterogeneity (1987) (36)
- Children who Qualify for LD and SED Programs: Do They Differ in Level of ADHD Symptoms and Comorbid Psychiatric Conditions? (1998) (36)
- Definition for Definitions of Learning Disabilities (1991) (36)
- The Role of Punishment In the Classroom (1973) (35)
- Effects of Public Policy at the State Level: California's Impact on MR, LD, and ED Categories (1985) (35)
- Classroom Instructional Characteristics in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Comparison of Pure and Mixed Subgroups (1992) (34)
- Stimulant Medication and Reading Performance (1992) (34)
- Social Skills Deficits as Primary Learning Disabilities: A Note on Problems with the ICLD Diagnostic Criteria. (1991) (33)
- Right Reason in the Integration of Group and Single-Subject Research in Behavioral Disorders (2000) (32)
- The reinforcement hierarchy (1973) (32)
- Parental Etiological Explanations and Disproportionate Racial/Ethnic Representation in Special Education Services for Youths with Emotional Disturbance (2004) (32)
- The Efficacy of a Home-School Intervention for Preschoolers With Challenging Behaviors (2014) (31)
- Learning Disability Grows Up: Rehabilitation Issues for Individuals with Learning Disabilities (1996) (31)
- Children at Risk: Effects of a Four-Year Head Start Transition Program on Special Education Identification (2001) (29)
- Depression in Children and Adolescents: Identification, Assessment, and Treatment (1991) (28)
- Social Functioning in Adults with Learning Disabilities. (1992) (28)
- Severe behavior disorders of children and youth (1987) (28)
- Efficacy of the First Step to Success Intervention for Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2009) (28)
- Ignoring the Odds: Hazards of Not Adding the New Medical Model to Special Education Decisions (2001) (28)
- Head Start Children Finishing First Grade: Preliminary Data on School Identification of Children at Risk for Special Education (1998) (28)
- DSM III Psychiatric Diagnoses and Special Education Categories (1982) (27)
- Response to Stimulant Medication across Six Measures of School-Related Performance in Children with ADHD and Disruptive Behavior (1992) (27)
- The Future of Research and Practice in Behavioral Disorders: Psychopharmacology and Its School Implications (1999) (26)
- Consequences of Differential Diagnostic Criteria on Identification Rates of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders (1998) (25)
- Reflections on the Future of Prevention (2001) (25)
- Behavior Modification: Limitations and Liabilities (1970) (24)
- Barriers to Evidence-Based Treatment: Developmental Psychopathology and the Interdisciplinary Disconnect in School Mental Health Practice. (2003) (23)
- Teacher Judgment in Assessing Students’ Social Behavior Within a Response-to-Intervention Framework: Using What Teachers Know (2015) (23)
- Early Intervention for Preschoolers at Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Preschool First Step to Success (2016) (23)
- Influences on the sociometric ratings of mildly handicapped children: a path analysis. (1983) (23)
- Mental Health and Special Education Outcomes of Head Start Children Followed Into Elementary School (2003) (23)
- Primary Prevention in Mental Health for Head Start Classrooms: Partial Replication with Teachers as Intervenors (2003) (22)
- School Context and the Academic Achievement of Students with Emotional Disturbance (2008) (22)
- History, Definition, and Diagnosis (1992) (22)
- Learning disability as a discipline. (2003) (21)
- Interventions for Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in the Schools (1999) (21)
- Effect of Videotape Feedback on Children’s Classroom Behavior1 (1974) (21)
- Concepts of Learning and Behavior Disorders: Implications for Research and Practice (1981) (21)
- Psychopharmacologic Treatment (1988) (21)
- Head Start Children at Third Grade: Preliminary Special Education Identification and Placement of Children with Emotional, Learning, and Related Disabilities (1999) (21)
- Recent Randomized Clinical Trials Comparing Behavioral Interventions and Psychopharmacologic Treatments for Students with EBD (2006) (21)
- The New Medical Model: Interdisciplinary Treatment and the Limits of Behaviorism (2002) (21)
- Research in Behavioral Disorders/Emotional Disturbance: A Survey of Subject Identification Criteria (1986) (20)
- Special Education and the New Mental Health: A Response to New Direction of CCBD? (2011) (19)
- Handbook on the assessment of learning disabilities : theory, research, and practice (1991) (19)
- Broadening the Cultural-Organizational Perspective in Exclusion of Youth with Social Maladjustment (1992) (18)
- Serving children with emotional or behavior disorders: implications for educational policy. (1984) (18)
- Where Angels Fear to Tread: Issues in Sampling, Design, and Implementation of School-Based Mental Health Services Research. (1993) (18)
- Mental Health and Head Start: Teaching Adaptive Skills. (1998) (17)
- Follow‐up of high‐risk children identified in kindergarten through direct classroom observation (1976) (17)
- Behavioristic orientation to categorical labels (1976) (17)
- Parting Reflections on Education of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders (2003) (17)
- The Role of IQ in Special Education Placement Decisions (1998) (17)
- Effect of Video Feedback on Teacher Behavior1 (1975) (17)
- Strategies to Improve Basic Learning and Memory Deficits in Mental Retardation: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies. (1993) (16)
- Implications of Recent Trends in Educational Labeling (1974) (16)
- Mental Health Services in Special Education: An Analysis of Quality of Care (2014) (16)
- Brief Head Start Children at Risk for Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: Behavior Profiles and Clinical Implications of a Primary Prevention Program (2002) (16)
- The mildly retarded as casualties of the educational system (1972) (16)
- Education of the Mentally Retarded: A Note on Policy. (1984) (15)
- Use of Different Measures to Identify Preschoolers At-Risk for Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: Impact on Gender and Ethnicity (2002) (15)
- Design and Management of Scientific Research in Applied School Settings (2014) (14)
- Identification and diagnostic issues in special education: A status report for child psychiatrists (1989) (14)
- Special Education Placements among Former Head Start Children in Kindergarten: A Descriptive Multi-Site Study. (2003) (14)
- Effects of Test Time-Limits on Achievement Scores of Behaviorally Disordered Adolescents (1982) (14)
- A transition model for placement of handicapped children in regular and special classes (1977) (14)
- Educational Prescription of the School Psychologist. (1970) (14)
- An Overview of Medications Commonly Used to Treat Behavioral Disorders Associated with Autism, Tourette Syndrome, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (1998) (14)
- The Balkanization of special education: proliferation of categories for "new" behavioral disorders (1994) (14)
- What Is So Special About IQ? (1998) (14)
- Head Start Children with a Putative Diagnosis of ADHD: A Four-Year Follow-Up of Special Education Placement (2003) (14)
- Physical and Psychiatric Diagnoses of Pupils with Mild Mental Retardation Currently Being Referred for Related Services. (1987) (13)
- Defining Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: The Quest for Affirmation (2005) (13)
- Developing the individual educational plan: process and perspectives (1979) (13)
- Stimulant Medication Revisited: Effective Treatment of Children with ADHD. (1999) (12)
- Holistic Inquiry and the Scientific Challenge in Special Education (1987) (12)
- Prediction of High-Risk Kindergarten Children Through Classroom Observation (1975) (12)
- Psychiatric Disorders and treatments: A Primer for Teachers (2003) (12)
- Toward diagnostic related groups in child psychiatry: a preliminary study. (1985) (12)
- Evaluation of learning disorders in children with a psychiatric disorder: An example from the Multimodal Treatment Study for ADHD (MTA Study). (2000) (12)
- Post-School Adjustment of Mentally Retarded Persons with Psychiatric Disorders: A Ten-Year Follow-Up. (1986) (12)
- The Historical Foundation of Learning Disabilities (1985) (12)
- Diagnosing dyslexia. A note on the need for ecological assessment. (1982) (11)
- School in a psychiatric hospital. (1974) (11)
- Stability of pupil behavior in short‐term classroom observations (1977) (11)
- Reductionism, Paradigm Shifts, and Learning Disabilities (1988) (11)
- Classroom Behavior of Mentally Retarded Children Across Different Classroom Settings (1981) (10)
- Classroom environments as they relate to mentally retarded children's observable behavior. (1982) (10)
- Recent Concepts in Dyslexia: Implications for Diagnosis and Remediation. (1981) (10)
- The Psychiactric Comorbidity Hypothesis Revisited (1998) (10)
- The Special Classroom as a Desensitization Setting (1971) (10)
- History, Politics, and the General Education Initiative: Sleeter's Reinterpretation of Learning Disabilities as a Case Study (1987) (10)
- Developmental and health services in head start preschools: a tiered approach to early intervention. (2013) (9)
- Bases of Severe Behavioral Disorders in Children and Youth (1988) (9)
- Five-Year Follow-up of Preschoolers with Autism and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders (2012) (9)
- Behavioral disturbance in mentally retarded children in TMR and EMR classrooms. (1985) (9)
- Clinical criteria for mainstreaming mildly handicapped children (1979) (9)
- Clusters of Observable Behavior in High-Risk Kindergarten Children. (1975) (9)
- The Politics of Learning Disabilities: A Rejoinder (1998) (9)
- Behavioristic approach to classroom management and motivation (1970) (8)
- Effects of Class Size on Attention, Communication, and Disruption of Mildly Mentally Retarded Children (1985) (8)
- Reinforcement Overkill: Implications for Education of the Retarded 1 (1972) (8)
- Homeless Children in Emergency Shelters: Need for Prereferral Intervention and Potential Eligibility for Special Education (1998) (8)
- Comorbid Psychiatric Diagnoses in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2010) (8)
- Diagnostic Schooling for Children or Adolescents with Behavioral Disorders (1983) (7)
- Status of interagency cooperation between interdisciplinary clinics or hospitals and the public schools (1982) (7)
- Effects of the First Step to Success Intervention on Preschoolers with Disruptive Behavior and Comorbid Anxiety Problems (2018) (7)
- First Step to Success: Applications to Preschoolers at Risk of Developing Autism Spectrum Disorders. (2015) (6)
- Programs and practices (1988) (6)
- Comprehensive Cost Analysis of First Step Next for Preschoolers with Disruptive Behavior Disorder: Using Real-World Intervention Data to Estimate Costs at Scale (2019) (6)
- An Update on Psychopharmacologic Medication (1997) (6)
- Use Of Different Types Of Classroom Punishment By Preschool Teachers (1976) (5)
- Interagency Linkages between Interdisciplinary University Clinics and Hospitals and the Public Schools: A National Survey. (1983) (5)
- Subsequent School Adjustment of Children and Adolescents Discharged from a Psychiatric Hospital as a Function of Length of Stay. (1980) (5)
- Behavior modification: savior or savant? (1973) (5)
- Eventual school placement of kindergartners observed as high risk in the classroom (1977) (4)
- Autistic children in school: the role of the pediatrician. (1984) (4)
- Screening Kindergarten Children for Early Intervention through Direct Observation of Classroom Behavior. (1973) (4)
- Relationship between classroom behavior and achievement of mildly mentally retarded children. (1979) (4)
- Reply How Not to Specify Learning Disabilities: A Rejoinder to Košč (1987) (4)
- homeBase: Participation, Engagement, Alliance, and Social Validity of a Motivational Parenting Intervention (2019) (4)
- Relationship between Classroom Behavior and Adaptive Behavior of Institutionalized Retarded Children. (1984) (4)
- First Step Next: An Updated Version of the First Step to Success Early Intervention Program. (2018) (4)
- Sheltered Homeless Children: Eligibility and Unmet Need for Special Education Evaluations. (1998) (4)
- Fuzzy-trace theory: Implications for research in learning disabilities (1995) (3)
- Discrepancy models and the meaning of learning disability (2001) (3)
- Classroom observation of children referred to a child psychiatric clinic. (1974) (3)
- Individualizing schedules of instruction for school children with learning and behavior problems (1979) (3)
- The real world of special education. (1998) (3)
- Assessment of Applied Academic and Social Skills. (1981) (3)
- Establishing a Connection between Severity of Learning Disabilities and Classroom Attention Problems (1984) (3)
- Classroom Exclusion in a Children's Psychiatric Hospital (1971) (3)
- Mental Retardation and the Special Education System (1989) (3)
- Avoiding Corporal Punishment in School: Issues for School Counselors. (1984) (3)
- Remediation of Reading Disabilities. Part 2: Classification and Approaches. (1983) (2)
- Educational approaches to autism. (1974) (2)
- Head Start Children with SED: Two Years Later. (1998) (2)
- Issues and Recommendations for School Programs in Community Psychiatric Hospitals. (1982) (2)
- Comparing the PIAT and Untimed CTBS in Obtaining Achievement Scores from Disturbed Children. (1984) (2)
- Interdisciplinary evaluation: types of children referred to UAF clinics and hospitals. (1984) (2)
- Micro-Interpretation of a Meta-Analysis: A Reply to Inglis and Lawson (1987) (2)
- First Step Next and homeBase: A Comparative Efficacy Study of Children With Disruptive Behavior (2021) (2)
- Interdisciplinary Training in the Community (1983) (2)
- Identifying inservice training programs in university affiliated facilities. (1981) (2)
- Learning Disabilities: New Doubts, New Inquiries (1990) (1)
- Handbook of Learning Disabilities. Volume I: Dimensions and Diagnosis (1987) (1)
- Laterally in Retarded Readers with Brain Dysfunction (1970) (1)
- Learning Strategies and Social Skills Training for Students with AD/HD. (1998) (1)
- Dr. King and Colleagues Reply (1995) (1)
- Special education for handicapped and disabled children: classification, programs, and trends. (1988) (1)
- Education of retarded children. A review for physicians. (1974) (1)
- Interference, Inhibition, and Learning Disability: A Commentary on Dempster and Corkill (1999) (1)
- Future Directions in the Holistic Treatment of Children with Learning and Attention Disorders: Concerns and Guidelines (2003) (1)
- Strengthening the Research Base in Special Education: Evidence-Based Practice and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2017) (1)
- Remediation of Reading Disabilities. Part One: Issues and Concepts. (1983) (1)
- Participation in Related Services and Behavioral, Social, and Adaptive Symptom Presentation in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2018) (1)
- What Is LD (2012) (1)
- Models and Theories: Their Influence on Research in Learning Disabilities (1994) (1)
- Ask NHSA Dialog (2001) (0)
- Intelligence and LD (2012) (0)
- The Emergence of LD (2012) (0)
- Index to Titles and Authors (1982) (0)
- How Many Angles Can Dance on the Head of an Interdisciplinary Pin? A Look at the School Psychologist's Role. (1987) (0)
- Out of the Classroom: The Special Classroom as a Desensitization Setting. (1971) (0)
- The Politics of Learning Disabilities Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
- Methods and interventions (1988) (0)
- Thematic Foundations of LD (2012) (0)
- Effects of the First Step to Success Intervention on Preschoolers with Disruptive Behavior and Comorbid Anxiety Problems (2017) (0)
- Factors Affecting BSW Students' Choices in Initial Field Placement: A Racial/Ethnic Comparison (2013) (0)
- Learning disorders. (1982) (0)
- Reply (1987) (0)
- Interdisciplinary services used by public schools. (1984) (0)
- Public school satisfaction with interdisciplinary services. (1984) (0)
- Cost Effectiveness of School and Home Interventions for Students With Disruptive Behavior Problems (2022) (0)
- Referencing Outcomes in Behavioral Disorders to Societal Issues and Problems (2016) (0)
- MENTAL RETARDATION 1970 SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 941H ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ON MENTAL DEFICIENCY (2012) (0)
- The Historical Context of LD (2012) (0)
- A Tests and Measurements Approach to Learning Disabilities. (1985) (0)
- Mental Health System Involvement in SED Placement Decisions (2019) (0)
- Research and Measurement Problems in LD (2012) (0)
- Dimensions and diagnosis (1987) (0)
- The Proliferation of Categories for "New" Behavioral Disorders. The Struggle to Include the Handicapped. (1995) (0)
- Vocational Rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded: A Book of Readings (1974) (0)
- Media Review: Understanding Troubled and Troubling Youth (1991) (0)
- A Retrospective Look at LD (2012) (0)
- ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN CHOICES FOR INITIAL SOCIAL WORK FIELD PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE (2012) (0)
- First Step Next: A Best-Evidence Synthesis of Replication Randomized Controlled Trials From 2009 to 2021 (2022) (0)
- Parents are teachers: By Wesley C. Becker, Champaign, Illinois: Research Press, 1971, $6.95 (1981) (0)
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