Prevention Action

London school trial speaks well for SPOKES

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:01:38 +0000

A multi-faceted, population-based intervention designed to nip conduct disorders in the bud, which unusually combines behavioral treatment with literacy teaching, has made a good showing in eight London schools.

Introducing the near-perfect model of empathy

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:58 +0000

Back to the roots: Dublin schoolchildren join the “race to global consciousness” as a new social and emotional learning program comes to town from Canada.

The secret of Home-Start is believing

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Researchers in Utrecht try to confound the skeptics by identifying a potentially effective confidence-building “chemistry” at the heart of a home visiting program. Home-Start provides vulnerable mothers with a useful source of moral support – but it has still to prove it can alleviate their children’s problems.

The less "unwitting" way to get results

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

US researchers Dean Fixsen and Karen Blase recruit an old testament prophet, a civil rights activist and the founder of the Chicago Leadership Institute to the good cause of better implementation science.

Tuning the infant brain – in our time

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

BBC radio helps to knit together the case in favor of focusing help for vulnerable children on their needs in infancy by giving prime airtime to the theories of the neuroscientific successors of Piaget and Chomsky.

Strengthening families with mindfulness

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A new variation on the theme of Iowa State University’s Strengthening Families program is getting a chance to prove its versatility in a Pennsylvania community trial funded by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Does doing it online mean doing it faithfully?

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:42:46 +0000

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.

Head Start’s failings are no reason to stop

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Staying after school for good behavior

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Protective behaviors on trial in Mayo

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:32:52 +0000

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.