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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preventing substance abuse : an overview / José Szapocznik, Patrick Tolan, Soledad Sambrano and Seth J. Schwartz -- Key concepts for prevention research and practice -- Development in childhood and adolescence : implications for prevention research and practice / Marija G. Dunn and Ada C. Mezzich -- Research to practice : bringing effective prevention to every community / Paul Brounstein, Steve Gardner, and Thomas E. Backer -- Interventions for preschool children : ages 3-5 -- Incredible years parent and teacher training series : a head start partnership to promote social competence and prevent conduct problems / Carolyn Webster-Stratton, and M. Jamila Reid -- Project star : early intervention with preschool children and families for the prevention of substance abuse / Ruth Kaminski and Beth Stormshak -- Interventions for elementary school children : ages 6-8 -- Schools and families educating children (safe children) : a preventive intervention for early elementary school children / Deborah Gorman-Smith, Patrick H. Tolan, David B. Henry, Elena Quintana, Kelly Lutovsky, and Amy Lenventhal -- The early risers "skills for success" program : an early-age-targeted intervention for preventing conduct problems and substance abuse in aggressive elementary school children / Gerald J. August, George M. Realmuto, Michael L. Bloomquist, and Joel M. Hetkner -- The strengthening families program (SFP) : an evidence-based, multi-cultural family skills training program / Karol L. Kumpfer, Rose Alvarado, Connie Tai, and Henry O. Whiteside -- Interventions for preadolescent children and young adolescents : ages 9-14 -- The coping power program : preventive intervention at the middle school transition / John Lochman, Karen Wells and Maureen Murray -- Familias unidas : a systemic, parent-centered approach to preventing problem behavior in Hispanic adolescents / Hilda Pantin, Seth J. Schwartz, J. Douglas Coatsworth, Summer Sullivan, Ervin Briones and José Szapocznik -- Conclusions -- Developmental opportunities for prevention of substance abuse / Patrick Tolan, Jose Szapocznik, Soledad Sambrano. |
| Summary |
"In this pioneering effort, editors Tolan, Szapocznik, and Sambrano present seven programs that systematically target four critical childhood factors for preventing adolescent substance use: parenting and family relationships, child social competence, self-regulation, and school achievement. For each empirically tested program, the authors show how the program works and how to implement it correctly. After introducing the settings and developmental factors that affect risk for substance use, the contributors provide a general framework for translating prevention research into practice. Chapters describing each intervention contain user-friendly explanations of the theory, methods, and implementation of each program and summarize how it was shown to reduce risk for substance abuse. Illustrative case examples are woven throughout the text, showing the benefits gained from the approach. Programs described include interventions that apply to participants at differing developmental periods (from ages 4-14), programs for the general population, programs for high-risk youth and families, and programs developed and tested for a variety of ethnic and cultural groups across varying locations. This volume is a strong example of the often-desired but infrequently accomplished translation of research into useful form for practice. It can be used as a text for professional training as well as a guide for health and human service providers, school superintendents, prevention scientists, and others who evaluate or administer substance abuse prevention programs in their communities." |
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"The editors make it clear that the problem no longer is a lack of science-based models of prevention. They present a collection of chapters on evidence-based programs that work. The book reviews only programs that were tested as part of a specific federal project, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's Predictor Variables Initiative"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Youth -- Substance use -- Prevention.
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Substance abuse -- Prevention.
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Substance-Related Disorders -- prevention and control.
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Adolescent.
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Child.
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Family.
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Mental Health Services -- organization & administration.
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Preventive Health Services -- organization & administration.
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School Health Services -- organization & administration.
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| Added Author |
Tolan, Patrick H.
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Szapocznik, José.
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Sambrano, Soledad.
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| Added Title |
PsycBooks (EBSCO Host)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Preventing youth substance abuse. 1st ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2007 (DLC) 2005037626 |
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