For "fidelity" and "scalability" read off-the-peg internet delivery – but online drug and alcohol prevention programs work, say researchers in New South Wales, Australia.

The failure of the US Head Start program to produce evidence of lasting benefit is no reason for despair, say Washington researchers. It strengthens the case for making the search for what works more specific and more rigorous.

The principles of the Good Behavior Game, a classroom management strategy designed to reduce aggressive student behavior, are being translated to the more recreational environment of afterschool.

The CEO of the Barnardos children’s charity in Ireland commends an abuse prevention and “behavior policy” program to families in the West, where it is beginning its first community trial.

“If we know how to enhance social-emotional growth in our schools, then we must use what we’ve learned to benefit our children … “ The latest publication from the UK Institute for Effective Education delivers its verdict on the condition of what prevention science is calling the fourth classroom “R” – for regulation.

Two studies of different factors in the public health argument have come to the same conclusion – better to ban smoking in public places and be done with it

“Binge eating disorder”, "skin picking disorder”, “risk syndromes” … the American Psychiatric Association is taking soundings on proposed changes to the classification of mental disorders which may open new developmental avenues for prevention science.

"I want her job to be not just about the bump…" the UK government’s former chief adviser on children's services, Naomi Eisenstadt, wants midwives to play a more pivotal role in a universal family support service.

Newspaper stories about the continuing decline in the emotional well-being and self confidence of UK schoolchildren point to the difficulty of collecting comparable data from the classroom year on year.

Tracing the neurological impact of social rejection using brain imaging technology has led Californian psychobiologists to suggest that commonplace non-prescription painkillers may be an effective treatment for emotional hurt.

Researchers in three US universities are trying to understand the dynamics in the relationship between children’s developing behavioral problems and persistently harsh physical discipline on the part of their parents.

The UK Strategic Review of Health Inequalities puts prevention science, primary health care, transport policy and the national carbon footprint on the same page.