prevention

London school trial speaks well for SPOKES

12 March 2010 |

A multi-faceted, population-based intervention designed to nip conduct disorders in the bud, which unusually combines behavioral treatment with literacy teaching, has made a good showing in eight London schools.

Introducing the near-perfect model of empathy

11 March 2010 |

Back to the roots: Dublin schoolchildren join the “race to global consciousness” as a new social and emotional learning program comes to town from Canada.

The secret of Home-Start is believing

10 March 2010 |

Researchers in Utrecht try to confound the skeptics by identifying a potentially effective confidence-building “chemistry” at the heart of a home visiting program. Home-Start provides vulnerable mothers with a useful source of moral support – but it has still to prove it can alleviate their children’s problems.

The less "unwitting" way to get results

9 March 2010 |

US researchers Dean Fixsen and Karen Blase recruit an old testament prophet, a civil rights activist and the founder of the Chicago Leadership Institute to the good cause of better implementation science.

Tuning the infant brain – in our time

8 March 2010 |

BBC radio helps to knit together the case in favor of focusing help for vulnerable children on their needs in infancy by giving prime airtime to the theories of the neuroscientific successors of Piaget and Chomsky.

Strengthening families with mindfulness

5 March 2010 |

A new variation on the theme of Iowa State University’s Strengthening Families program is getting a chance to prove its versatility in a Pennsylvania community trial funded by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse.