Linda Bruene

Research Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program

1999-2000 Improving Social Awareness: A study of Children's Interpersonal Development in School and Home Contexts.
Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation as a model Action- Research program for 3 years; Grant No. 82-0813-00 (Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D. and John F. Clabby, Ph.D.) Amount awarded: $115,000.

1999-2000 Project AWARE: Social Problem Solving As Preventive Model. Grant proposal reviewed by Life Course Review Committee, Child & Family Panel, National Institute of Mental Health. Unanimously approved by peer review panel and National Advisory Mental Health Council, 3/82. Grant No. 1 Ro1 MH36828, 8/1/82 - 7/31/85 (Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D.) Amount awarded: $300,000.

1984-88 Middlesex County Training Center for School-Based Social Problem Solving. Funded by the Middlesex County Mental Health Board and Board of Chosen Freeholders on a competing continuation basis. (Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D. and John F. Clabby, Ph.D.) Amount awarded: $94,100.

1999-2000 Improving Social Awareness: A study of Children's Interpersonal Development in School and Home Contexts--The Middle School Years. Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation. Grant No. 85-0813-82 (Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D. and John F. Clabby, Ph.D.) Amount awarded: $157,000.

1988 Lela Rowland Prevention Award, National Mental Health Association. Cash award to be used for the Improving Social Awareness-Social Problem Solving Project. Amount awarded: $1,000. 1999-2000 Developer/Demonstrator grant, National Diffusion Network, United States Department of Education (Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D. and John F. Clabby, Ph.D.) Amount awarded: $285,000.

1998-2001 Developing a Network of Schools for Social Decision Making and Problem Solving. Funded by Fleet Bank. (John F. Clabby, Ph.D. and Linda Bruene Butler, M.Ed.) Amount awarded: $120,000. 1999-2000 Efficacy of Asthma Behavioral Counseling Intervention upon Asthma Morbidity in inner city Ethnic Minority Children. Funded by Schering-Plough (Mahmood I. Siddique, D.O., Anthony T. Scardella, M.D., Sushmita Mikkilineni, M. D., John F. Clabby, Ph.D., and Ronald P. Cody, Ed. D.) Amount awarded: $ 23,693.

1999-2001 Reducing Aggression and Promoting Cooperation in Primary School Children. Funded by the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey. (Candice Feiring, Ph.D.) Amount awarded: $84,978.