A little girl scrapes her knee. Crying follows. A little boy laughs at the girl. A decade later, antisocial behavior follows. An exaggeration? Or could it really be true? A recent study makes a strong argument that the link is real.
August 2013
12 August 2013
After a program has been found to work, expanding it to new places and people can appear a major challenge. One report reveals the six steps needed to take a program to scale.
06 August 2013
Parenting interventions often seek to prevent children’s behavior problems by improving parents’ discipline and communication skills. But if research shows a program’s positive impact on parents is not matched by improvements in the way their children behave, is it good or bad news?
01 August 2013
Placing children and young people in care homes and other institutions tends to be treated as a last resort. But a statistical review of studies since 1980 shows that institutional care can achieve positive outcomes by providing evidence-based treatments.
