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Effective Treatment for Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents
As pressure increases for the demonstration of effective treatment for children with mental disorders, it is essential that the field has an...
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School-Based Interventions for Aggressive Children
PrimeTime is a school-based secondary prevention program that integrates empirically supported treatment components into a unified intervention. We...
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The Teen Assessment Project Community-Based Collaborative Research
At public universities across the nation, scholars are increasingly being called upon to address community needs while also meeting the expectation...
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Tobacco, Drug, and HIV Preventive Media Interventions
Media-based health promotion interventions can reach large segments of the population and lower barriers to participation in programs. By...
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Drug policies: A study of the opinions of local law enforcement patrol officers about various policy alternatives
The article briefly reviews some literature describing the scope and seriousness of psychoactive substance misuse in the United States and then...
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Health Policy and Smoking and Tobacco Use
In the 1990s, public and governmental attitudes toward tobacco use are dramatically different in comparison to the attitudes of the 1950s and before....
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Health Behavior Research and School and Youth Health Promotion
Adolescents are frequently considered among the healthiest of all Americans, with nearly the lowest mortality rate of all age groups (Coira, Zill, &...
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Drug Prevention
Drug use is prevalent among young people. In 1994, almost half of all high school students (46%) tried at least one illicit drug, such as marijuana,...
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Challenges in Defining and Develo** the Field of Rural Mental Disorder Preventive Intervention Research
An overview of selected issues and challenges in defining and develo** the field of rural preventive intervention research is presented. One...
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Understanding Pathways to Student Expulsion: Consideration of Individual and System Indicators
Paralleling the implementation of “zero-tolerance” disciplinary policies with regard to weapons possession and threats to student and faculty safety...
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Paternalism and Health Behavior
Smoking is a preventable health risk to smokers as well as to nonsmokers who are exposed to tobacco smoke (Eriksson, LaMaistre, & Newell, 1988;...
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Importance of Policy
In general, social policy refers to the rules governing the behavior of individuals in a particular setting. Sometimes, the rules are fixed such as...
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Primary Prevention Programs in Schools
The title of Klein and Goldston’s (1977) text, Primary Prevention: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,was prophetic. Whereas there had been relatively few...