Teachers’ Confidence in Addressing Student Mental Health Concerns

Teacher-led student mental health initiatives are recommended; however, do teachers receive adequate training to provide these services? This study aimed to examine what individual teacher variables directly relate to teachers’ knowledge and skills regarding general schoolwide behavioral policies and individualized support and practices, and what influence they exert on teachers’ confidence. The study was a quantitative method cross-sectional design using survey methods. Results demonstrated that both years of teaching experience and the number of resources available were statistically significant predictors of teachers’ general behavioral programming knowledge. Additionally, both mental-health related college coursework and assigned grade level predicted teachers’ individualized student supports knowledge and skills. Lastly, results demonstrated that teachers with higher individualized support and practices knowledge reported increased confidence in providing mental health interventions. Limitations include restricted generalizability due to limited response rate and uneven district representation. Implications and future directions emphasizing targeted professional development opportunities designed to increase teacher knowledge and skills related to evidence-based mental health practices are discussed

Benthic Macrofauna of the New York Bight, 1979-89

The benthic macrofauna of the New York Bight has been monitored extensively, primarily to determine trends over space and time in biological effects of waste inputs. In the present study, from 44 to 48 stations were sampled each summer from 1980-1985. Data from other Bight benthic studies are included to· extend the temporal coverage from 1979 to 1989. Numbers of species and amphipods per sample, taken as relatively sensitive indicators of environmental stress, showed consistent spatial patterns. Lowest values were found in the Christiaensen Basin and other inshore areas, and numbers increased toward the outermost shelf and Hudson Shelf Valley stations. There were statistically significant decreases in species and amphipods at most stations from 1980 to 1985. (Preliminary data from a more recent study suggest numbers of species increased again between 1986 and 1989.) Cluster analysis of 1980-85 data indicated several distinct assemblages-sewage sludge dumpsite, sludge accumulation area, inner Shelf Valley, outer Shelf Valley, outer shelf-with little change over time. The "enriched" and "highly altered" assemblages in the Basin appear similar to those reported since sampling began there in 1968. No consistently defaunated areas have been found in any sampling programs over the past 20 years. On a gross level, therefore, recent faunal responses to any environmental changes are not evident, but the more sensitive measures used, i.e. numbers of species and amphipods, do indicate widespread recent effects. Causes of the faunal changes are not obvious; some possibilities, including increasing effects of sewage sludge or other waste inputs, natural factors, and sampling artifacts, are discussed. (PDF file contains 54 pages.

The operators' cost of producing some field crops in central Missouri

Publication authorized March 20, 1946.Digitized 2007 AES

Cost of producing cotton in southeast Missouri, 1941

Cover title.Includes bibliographical references

The horse and mule outlook

Caption title.Digitized 2006 AES MoU.Includes bibliographical references

Influence of yield on costs and income in agricultural production

Cover title

Reducing the cost of producing dairy and poultry products in Missouri

Caption title.At head of title: A wartime publication.Digitized 2006 AES MoU

The labor required and its distribution in Missouri farm crop production

Publication authorized October 14, 1944.Digitized 2007 AES

The costs of crop production in Missouri, 1921

Cover title.Includes bibliographical references

A new technique for evaluating mesospheric momentum balance utilizing radars and satellite data

Copyright © 2000 European Geosciences UnionA new method for evaluating momentum balance in the mesosphere using radar and satellite data is presented. This method is applied to radar wind data from two medium frequency installations (near Adelaide, Australia and Christchurch, New Zealand) and satellite temperature data from the Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS). Because of limitations in data availability and vertical extent, the technique can only be applied to evaluate the momentum balance at 80 km above the radar sites for May 1992. The technique allows the calculation of the residual terms in the momentum balance which are usually attributed to the effects of breaking gravity waves. Although the results are inconclusive above Adelaide, this method produces values of zonal and meridional residual accelerations above Christchurch which are consistent with expectation. In both locations it is apparent that geostrophic balance is a poor approximation of reality. (This result is not dependent on a mismatch between the radar and satellite derived winds, but rather is inherent in the satellite data alone.) Despite significant caveats about data quality the technique appears robust and could be of use with data from future instruments