Elle offers some advice from information design guru Edward Tufte to some of the scientists presenting at this year's Society for Prevention Research meeting in San Francisco.
The last day of the conference is always a bit of an anticlimax. The energetic delegates are packing, saying goodbye, and worrying about taxis to the airport.
Randomized control trials thrill some, and frighten others. In the right conditions, they are by far the best way of finding out if a program has an impact on child outcomes.
Alice Wolf is a State Representative in the Massachusetts legislature. She is the 'go to' person in the State House of Representatives on questions of research and prevention.
A significant part of SRCD is devoted to the application of science to policy and practice. Listening to some of the early contributions on the subject, one is struck by a couple of paradoxes.
A US program originally designed to help hearing-impaired children attune themselves to the feelings of those around them is proving its worth as a universal, low cost school-based strategy for improving children's behavior.
In the space of a single decade, Penn State’s Prevention Research Center’s approach to science–based community empowerment has put it in the vanguard of efforts to make a seamless connection between prevention science, policy and practice.
Why is promoting fidelity in the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs like singing an Irish ballad? The policy co-ordinator at Penn State’s Prevention Research Center, Brian Bumbarger, explains the connection between the oral tradition and effective practice.