prevention

See it, feel it, taste it – but you won’t measure it

The UK’s leading child and adolescent psychiatrist, Professor Sir Michael Rutter, has told children’s services specialists that they must come to terms with the implications of resilience being for ever a moving target, shaped by the interplay between a particular adversity, individual characteristics and environmental factors – and beyond measurement.

Deciphering the science behind the biochemistry

From the Research Unit on Children’s Psycho-Social Maladjustment at the University of Montreal, demonstrating a promising impact on risks for alcohol abuse among disruptive pre-pubescent boys, comes another cipher to be reckoned with – PTP (the Preventive Treatment Program).

Where there's Hope there's developmental psychopathology

Dante Cicchetti is among US academics who see the potential for a seamless exchange of scientific knowledge and practice wisdom between prevention science and developmental psychopathology.

Swedish study reconfirms the predicament of poor lone mothers

A Swedish study that exploited the country’s PIN-based record system to track the progress of children in relation to their parents’ socio-economic status has confirmed findings from classic work in the UK by highlighting the risks that continue to beset single unemployed mothers.

How to bring the Translation marque to market

The "from bench-to-bedside” enterprise of implementation science has attracted heavy investment across the US and the EC and has potential to integrate ideas and expertise from many disciplines. But will it ever get into the conversation of the populations it is intended to benefit if science continues to call it "translational research" (Type 1 or 2)?

Can private sector care still come up trumps?

The crash in Australia of the ABC Learning Centres' empire is putting the relationship between the public and private sector in delivering children’s services under close scrutiny. Financial probity and political judgment are being questioned, but perhaps it would make better sense to find out how well private sector competition actually works for children.