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Effectiveness Bank Analysis: ‘No Effect’ from Targeting Child Drinking via the Parents

Scientific article

20 May 2019

Findings of this comprehensive review seem to almost entirely deflate what in the mid-2000s was a bubble of enthusiasm for parental programmes as a way to prevent or reduce drinking among teenagers - but despite this overall verdict, some...

Effectiveness Bank Additions: Therapy Relationships that Work 1: The Alliance

Scientific article

1 April 2019

First of four bulletins recapping 16 reviews for the American Psychological Association featuring expert advice and amalgamations of research findings on different aspects of the client-therapist relationship. With the overview of the...

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Do Interventions to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms also Reduce Domestic Abuse?

Scientific article

29 March 2019

In celebration of International Women’s Day we are highlighting studies throughout the month of March that further our understanding of how sex and gender influence the course of addiction and treatment, with a particular focus on women...

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Therapeutic Relationships Matter for Young Clients Too

Scientific article

28 January 2019

Amalgamation of research findings for the American Psychological Association finds that the relationship between therapists and young clients and their parents matters nearly as much as in adult therapy. Practice recommendations will aid...

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Alcohol Harm Reduction Education Gains Credibility in UK

Scientific article

17 January 2019

Trialled in schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland, an alcohol harm reduction curriculum for secondary schools plus a parental component led to fewer pupils drinking heavily at a single sitting. Bolstered by this study, school programmes...

A prática de binge drinking entre jovens e o papel das promoções de bebidas alcoólicas: uma questão de saúde pública.

Book

1 March 2017

A prática de binge drinking entre jovens e o papel das promoções de bebidas alcoólicas: uma questão de saúde pública. Zila M. Sanchez Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, São Paulo-SP, Brasil Binge...

The Comparative Effectiveness of Outpatient Treatment for Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Meta-Analysis

Scientific article

1 January 2013

Multi-prong therapies centred on the family emerge as probably the most effective in this comprehensive and careful synthesis of the results of trials of non-residential programmes for substance using teenagers - but do the outcomes warrant...