Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
Prevention
Going to Scale with Parent Training in Norway: What Have We Found and Where Should We Go?
John Kjøbli To scale up evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of child conduct problems in primary care settings, the program Early Initiatives for Children at Risk (Norwegian acronym; TIBIR) was developed. The...
Lessons Learnt from Scaling-up a Parenting Programme during Its Research Phase
Jenny Doubt Background: There is an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing and reducing violence in our societies. Children in developing countries experience higher levels of abuse, and less than 12% of abused children receive...
Putting the Horse before the Cart? Negotiating Tensions Between the Need for Evidence and the Demand for Dissemination of Parenting Programmes to Reduce Violence Against Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Jamie Lachman, Jenny Doubt, Heidi Loening-Voysey Objectives: Parenting programmes have shown promise in preventing violence against children, as well as improving child and parental outcomes. Accordingly, there is an increased demand for...
Families Preparing a New Generation: Adaption of a Parent-Adolescent Substance Use Intervention for Burmese Refugee Families
Craig Nagoshi, Julie L. Nagoshi, Eusebius Small, Flavio F. Marsiglia Introduction: The overall goal of the proposed research project was to implement an adaptation of the established Families Preparing a New Generation (FPNG) substance use...
UNODC-Lcif Case Control Trials of Lionsquest Skills for Adolescence in South East Europe: Research Results and Policy Implications
Wadih E. Maalouf, Milos Stojanovic, Matthew Kiefer, Giovanna Campello, Hanna E. Heikkila, Ziad El Khatib UNODC has an ongoing global initiative promoting evidence based prevention programmes in line with the UNODC International Standards on...
Using Tableau Technology to Share Risk and Protective Factor Data with Local Communities for Prevention Planning
Nicole Eisenberg, John S. Briney, Richard F. Catalano, Kevin P. Haggerty, Ilene Berman, Daniela Castillo, Cynthia Weaver Introduction: Assessment of risk and protective factors is a key element of science-based approaches to community...
Does School Climate Mean the Same Thing in the U.S. as in Mexico?
Catherine Bradshaw, Kathan D. Shukla, Tracy E. Waasdorp, Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis, Amanda J. Nguyen, Cecilia Colunga Rodriguez Introduction: School climate is an important construct for guiding violence...
Improving the Measurement of School Climate
Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Ray E. Reichenberg, Kathan Shukula, Tracy E. Waasdorp, Catherine Bradshaw Introduction: Research over the past decade has provided clarity in defining school climate, improvements in its measurement, and more...
Triangulating School Climate: Areas of Convergence and Divergence in Multilevel Perspective
Jessika H. Bottiani, Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Katrina J. Debnam, Catherine Bradshaw Introduction: School stakeholders, including students, staff, and parents, often differ in their perceptions of school climate, making a multiple informant...
Ungsinn (Young Mind) - An Online Journal to Promote Evidence Based Practice in Norway
Helene Eng, Monica Martinussen, Charlotte Reedtz, Joshua Patras, Simon-Peter Neumer Background: Although knowledge about effective interventions for children and adolescents is regularly made available through scientific journals, most...