Objective This article expands the review of psychosocial treatments for adolescents with
disruptive behavior (DB), published previously by this journal. That earlier review focused on …

Abstract Background Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a short‐term family‐based
intervention for youth with behaviour problems. FFT has been widely implemented in the …

Strong arguments have been made for early intervention for child problems, stating that
early is more effective than later, as the brain is more malleable, and costs are lower …

Adolescence is a period characterized by both increased susceptibility to risks and new-
found strength to withstand them. Whilst most young people are well equipped to manage …

Background Adolescent antisocial behaviour is a major health and social problem. Studies
in the USA have shown that multisystemic therapy reduces such behaviour and the number …

For much of the past two decades, expensive and often imported evidence-based
programmes (EBPs) developed by clinician-researchers have been much in vogue in the …

According to the positive youth development (PYD) approach, PYD attributes such as
psychosocial competencies are developmental assets which can promote the holistic …

Abstract The Affordable Care Act expanded access to Medicaid programs and required them
to provide essential health benefits, which can include prevention services. This study …

This chapter focuses on offending in general, rather than on any particular type of offending.
It also reviews briefly some of the most important risk factors for the onset and prevalence of …

The last decade or more has seen a proliferation of online registries of evidence-based
interventions designed to improve child and youth psychosocial outcomes. The purpose of …