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Timothy A. Cavell is affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a particular concentration in Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Education, Safety Research, and General Health Professions.

Their work addresses topics such as Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression; Mentoring and Academic Development; Youth Development and Social Support; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; Child Development and Digital Technology; Behavioral and Psychological Studies; and Counseling Practices and Supervision.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Back to the Future: Mentoring as Means and End in Promoting Child Mental Health (2021), Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Toward Evidence-Based Interventions for Chronically Bullied Children: Candidate Mechanisms and Potential Strategies (2020), Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Students enrolled in a college autism support program: comparisons with non-enrollees and use of program-sponsored mentoring (2023), Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in Learning
  • Perceived barriers, relationship quality, and informal mentors: Adolescents' preference for disclosing about dating violence (2021), Journal of Community Psychology
  • Attachment Tendencies, Big 5 Personality Traits, and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Mentors' Relationships with Aggressive Children (2020), American Journal of Community Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Timothy A. Cavell include:

  • Jake C. Steggerda
  • Lauren B. Quetsch
  • Renée Spencer
  • Samantha J. Gregus
  • Carla Herrera

Common venues for publications by Cavell are:

  • Journal of School Violence
  • Training and Education in Professional Psychology
  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Journal of Community Psychology
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies

Cavell has also contributed to book publications with the American Psychological Association. Titles include Good enough parenting: A six-point plan for a stronger relationship with your child. (2022) and Working with parents of aggressive children: A practitioner's guide (2nd ed.). (2023).

Best Publications

  • Further Support for the Developmental Significance of the Quality of the Teacher–Student Relationship

    Jan N Hughes;Timothy A Cavell;Victor Willson

  • Teacher–Student Relationships as Compensatory Resources for Aggressive Children

    Barbara T. Meehan;Jan N. Hughes;Timothy A. Cavell

  • Influence of the teacher-student relationship on childhood conduct problems: a prospective study.

    Jan N. Hughes;Timothy A. Cavell;Tammy Jackson

  • Social Adjustment, Social Performance, and Social Skills: A Tri-Component Model of Social Competence

    Timothy A. Cavell

  • The role of relational aggression in identifying aggressive boys and girls.

    Carlen Henington;Carlen Henington;Jan N Hughes;Jan N Hughes;Timothy A Cavell;Timothy A Cavell;Bruce Thompson;Bruce Thompson

  • A positive view of self: Risk or protection for aggressive children?

    Jan N. Hughes;Timothy A. Cavell;Pamela B. Grossman

  • Callous/Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relation Between Ineffective Parenting and Child Externalizing Problems: A Partial Replication and Extension

    Mary Oxford;Timothy A Cavell;Jan N Hughes

  • Staying with Initial Answers on Objective Tests: Is it a Myth?

    Ludy T. Benjamin;Timothy A. Cavell;William R. Shallenberger

  • Working With Parents of Aggressive Children: A Practitioner's Guide

    Timothy A. Cavell

  • GENDER, ETHNICITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND RISK: MENTORING AND THE CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

    Nancy Darling;G. Anne Bogat;Timothy A. Cavell;Susan Elaine Murphy

  • Does Integrated Behavioral Health Care Reduce Mental Health Disparities for Latinos? Initial Findings

    Ana J. Bridges;Arthur R. Andrews;Bianca T. Villalobos;Freddie A. Pastrana

  • Secondary Prevention as Context for Assessing Change Processes in Aggressive Children

    Timothy A. Cavell;Jan N. Hughes

  • Relationship Quality and the Mentoring of Aggressive, High-Risk Children

    Timothy A. Cavell;L. Christian Elledge;Kenya T. Malcolm;Melissa A. Faith

  • Social Risk and Peer Victimization in Elementary School Children: The Protective Role of Teacher-Student Relationships.

    L. Christian Elledge;Allison R. Elledge;Rebecca A. Newgent;Timothy A. Cavell

  • Adverse school context moderates the outcomes of selective interventions for aggressive children.

    Jan N. Hughes;Timothy A. Cavell;Barbara T. Meehan;Duan Zhang

  • The self-systems of aggressive children: A cluster-analytic investigation

    John F. Edens;T. A. Cavell;Jan N. Hughes

  • School-Based Mentoring as Selective Prevention for Bullied Children: A Preliminary Test

    L. Christian Elledge;L. Christian Elledge;Timothy A. Cavell;Nick T. Ogle;Rebecca A. Newgent

  • Social Cognitive Differences Between Aggressive–Rejected and Aggressive–Nonrejected Children

    Jina S Yoon;Jina S Yoon;Jina S Yoon;Jan N Hughes;Jan N Hughes;Jan N Hughes;Timothy A Cavell;Timothy A Cavell;Timothy A Cavell;Bruce Thompson;Bruce Thompson;Bruce Thompson

  • Perceptions of attachment and the adjustment of adolescents with alcoholic fathers

    Timothy A. Cavell;Diane Carson Jones;R. Duane Runyan;Lisette P. Constantin-Page

  • The Natural Mentors of Adolescent Children of Alcoholics (COAs): Implications for Preventive Practices.

    Timothy A. Cavell;Barbara T. Meehan;Robert W. Heffer;Janice J. Holladay

  • Anger, aggression and interventions for interpersonal violence.

    Kenya T. Malcolm;Timothy A. Cavell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan N. Hughes
Jan N. Hughes Texas A&M University
Bruce Thompson
Bruce Thompson Texas A&M University
Mary Lou Kelley
Mary Lou Kelley Louisiana State University
Renée Spencer
Renée Spencer Boston University
John F. Edens
John F. Edens Texas A&M University
Douglas K. Snyder
Douglas K. Snyder Texas A&M University
Shelley Hymel
Shelley Hymel University of British Columbia
Donald A. Williamson
Donald A. Williamson Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Nancy Darling
Nancy Darling Oberlin College
G. Anne Bogat
G. Anne Bogat Michigan State University

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