Coping Power is a two-year prevention and intervention program for aggressive children in the late elementary school and early middle school years (ages 6 to 12).
The Good Behavior Game is a classroom management strategy for decreasing aggressive/disruptive behavior. It was developed at the University of Kansas and first described and reported in 1969 in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Randomized controlled trials have since shown reductions in students’ subsequent substance abuse, and behavioral and mental health disorders.
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) is an alcohol and substance abuse program for young people between the ages of 12 and 22 that attempts to replace environmental factors that support this behavior with prosocial activities to support recovery.
Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment (CAPSLE) is a school-wide bullying prevention program that focuses on altering the school environment in such a way that children are better able to ‘mentalize’ or understand the motivations for each others’ behavior. It is unusual in that there is no direct intervention with either bullies or their victims.
Guiding Good Choices is a drug use prevention program that aims to provide parents with the knowledge and skills they need to guide their children through early adolescence.
Designed by Professor Siegfried Engelmann at the University of Oregon, Direct Instruction is a teaching model grounded in carefully planned lessons, using small learning increments and defined teaching tasks.
Class Wide Peer Tutoring is a teaching system developed at the University of Kansas by school psychologist Charles R. Greenwood, who is also Director of the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project.
Communities That Care (CtC) is an “operating system” developed by David Hawkins and Richard Catalano from the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported or KEEP is a less intensive version of the training component of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), a Blueprints Model Program.
NEWPIN trains mothers to help other mothers in similar circumstances to reduce parental emotional stress and depression, improve the relationships between parents and children and to raise parental self-esteem.
Given the well-known barriers to implementing evidence-based programs, is it better to identify their discrete elements and trust practitioners to combine them in tailored packages depending on the needs of the child and family in question?
Tests in Australia on the effectiveness of the Family Risk Factor Checklist screening questionnaire have highlighted the difficulties parents and teachers alike face when they attempt to predict which children are most prone to mental health problems.