Merete Aasheim
Introduction: Students, who show early onset of risk factors linked to behavior problems, are in increased risk for academic underachievement, school failure and dropout, as well as duration of mental health problems...
Bonnie Leadbeater, Kara Thompson, Gabriel "Joey" Merrin, Megan E Ames
Introduction: Compared to other countries, Canadian youth are the highest users of marijuana in the developed world, with 28% of youth under 15 reporting marijuana use...
Marion Sue Forgatch
To improve the reach of evidence based interventions, we require science-based implementation systems and a way to ensure that programs are delivered with sustained model fidelity. Direct observation of intervention...
Silje Hukkelberg
Introduction: Brief Parent Training (BPT) and Parent Management Training- the Oregon model (PMTO) are interventions that both are proven effective in reducing emerging/existing conduct problem behaviors in children...
Introduction: Lack of family resources, social risk, has been found to negatively impact development of child behavior problems. Thus, improving families’ access to resources, and thereby reducing social risk, would certainly benefit...
Mojdeh Motamedi, Linda Lee Caldwell, Damon Evan Jones, Lisa Wegner, Edward Allan Smith
Introduction: Building on the previous findings that boredom is a predictor of sexual debut, this study examines how targeting youth’s leisure, a...
Eric K Layland, Linda Lee Caldwell, Nilam Ram, Lisa Wegner
Introduction: Early and risky sex in adolescence are related to transmission of HIV/AIDS and other STDs and unintended pregnancy. Sexual debut often co-occurs with other risky...
Phylicia T Bediako, Linda Lee Caldwell, Stephanie T. Lanza, Lisa Wegner, Joachim Jacobs, Jacqueline A. Miller
Introduction: Black and Coloured (i.e., mixed race, or multiracial) South Africans represent a substantial proportion of...
Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lana Wells
While the implementation of evidence-based programs within classrooms is an important piece of school-based prevention, creating healthy communities requires a more comprehensive approach: as...
Deinera Exner-Cortens, Vanja Spiric, Maisha Syeda
Promoting healthy relationships is increasingly recognized as a major prevention strategy for preventing youth violence and promoting youth well-being. In Alberta, Canada, the promotion...
Lana Wells, Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lynn Corcoran
The promotion of social-emotional learning (SEL) represents a key prevention strategy for youth violence, including bullying and dating violence. As identified by CASEL...
Amanda Kerry, Claire V Crooks
Introduction: Over one-third of Canadian youth have engaged in some form of delinquent behavior by the age of 14 (Savoie, 2006). In the United States, approximately 31 million youth are under juvenile court...
Elizabeth A Wieling, Jaime Ballard, Christopher Mehus, Damir Utrzan
Introduction: Increasing numbers of children are fleeing to the United States after exposure to war and conflict. Children exposed to war have high rates of negative...
Suzy Clarkson, Judy Hutchings
KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying programme, developed at Turku University. It is based on robust research by the programme developer, Christina Salmivalli, that shows how the responses of bystanders maintain...
Anthony Shakeshaft
Introduction: Adolescents exposed to multiple, co-occurring risk factors experience disproportionately high rates of harm, and Indigenous adolescents are over-represented in this population. Despite this, little is...
Cui Yang, Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Hongo Zhang, Nickolas Zaller
Introduction: Research in China has found that MSM avoid HIV testing at clinics or public health departments due in part to stigma and fear of disclosure of their MSM...
Marsha Bowers, Helen Baker-Henningham, Yakeisha Scott
Introduction: Corporal punishment is a widely used behaviour management strategy in Jamaican schools and exposure to corporal punishment at school is associated with poor child mental...
Mieke Snijder
Introduction: Indigenous people of Australia experience a higher burden of health-related harm compared to non-Aboriginal Australians, which is most starkly evidenced by the Aboriginal life expectancy being an estimated 10...
Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Cui Yang, Nickolas Zaller, Hongo Zhang
Introduction: In China, the proportion of HIV cases attributed to men who have sex with men (MSM) behavior has rapidly increased in recent years, with over one-quarter of...
Steven M. Kogan, Sophie Walsh, Megan Hicks
The Ethiopian families who are the focus of the present study emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in the 1980s-1990s. Escaping civil war, famine, and religious persecution, these families have...
