Prevention science is beginning to be able to speak in the same breath about qualities as indefinable as maternal sensitivity and quantities as infinitesimal as a dopamine receptor gene.
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.
A US early childhood support program that aims to provide new 'baby owners' with the equivalent of the missing manual in the form of expert advice has emerged from a Chicago evaluation showing only modest gains.
Can an otherwise effective intervention have potentially harmful side effects? Findings from the University of Miami expose the danger that behavioral therapy designed for one member of a family might jeopardize the equilibrium of the rest.