Supporting the development of socially rejected children

School adjustment in adolescence for previously rejected, average and popular children

“…Otherwise, there appear to be good reasons to worry about the future adulthood adjustment of peer-rejected children. Interventions or treatment programmes have been implemented with some success and might include working with the group processes in the class and to help rejected children improve their social competence (e.g., Bierman, 1986;Bullock, 1991Bullock, , 1992Coie & Koeppl, 1990) and, as suggested above, to improve their academic competence.…”