“…Also, teachers may need to discourage excessive dependence on adults, verbal and behavioral withdrawal from peers, and a variety of uncooperative, coercive, disgusting, or otherwise aversive behaviors that lead to rejection by peers or conflict with adults at school. Among interventions for such relationship problems are social skills training (Alberg, Petry, & Eller, 1994;Goldstein & McGinnis, 1997;Hazel, Schumaker, Sherman, & Sheldon, 1996;Melloy, Davis, Wehby, Murry, & Leiber, 1998), cognitive problem solving (Feindler, 1991;Lochman & Wells, 1996;Shure, 1999), group-oriented contingencies (Axelrod, 1999;Kauffman, Pullen, & Akers, 1998;Walker et al, 1995), guided classroom group discussions (Fuller & Fuller, 1999;Zionts, 1996), and commonsense teacher activities to counteract student loneliness (Pavri, 2001). The study findings suggest that teachers should be particularly alert for relationship problems among elementary school girls with ED and African American girls with ED.…”