There are several theories about human behavior that help us to understand the how interactions among individual traits such as intelligence, genetics, temperament interact with family characteristics, community norms and societal influences to reinforce or create certain behaviours. Many of those theories have seen the physical and social environment of schools and their surrounding neighbourhoods as a ley setting that influences and interacts the development of such behaviours. Click on the links below to access the related summaries posted or published on this web site. The pages include one paragraph glossary terms (GT), two page encyclopedia entries (EE), 15 page handbook sections (HS) and extensive bibliographies/toolboxes (BT) of web-linked research and resources.

This page introduces several several of these behaviour theories, including:

• social learning theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
  
• social attachment theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• social intelligence theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• stages of change/trans-theoretical theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• emerging theories about resilience (GT, EE, EE, EE, HS, HS, BT)
• risk/harm reduction theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• health belief model (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• social reasoning/cognition theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• planned behaviour theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• problem behaviour theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• cognitive-behviour theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• self-determination theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)
• family systems theory (GT, EE, HS, BT)

In our summaries and discussions of these theories, we hope to help all of to better understand the theory, review evidence of its effectiveness in explaining behaviour or guiding interventions, see its connection to other theories and how the theories can be applied to school health, safety, social and sustainable development.

Many of these summaries are now open for discussions and contributions. Please see our active Call for Contributors and Reviewers on these behaviour theories. Many of these draft summaries are in a "rough draft" stage. When they reach "First Draft" or "First Edition" stage after they have been discussed and reviewed, the links to those summaries will be added here.