The new frontier for prevention research involves building a scientific knowledge base on
how to disseminate and implement effective prevention programs with fidelity. Toward this …

The fundamental theorem of primary socialization theory is that normative and deviant
behaviors are learned social behaviors, products of the interaction of social, psychological …

The rationale for targeted and tailored substance use prevention programs derives from
essentially three observations: 1) differences in substance use prevalence rates across …

Random assignment was made of 182 clinically referred marijuana-and alcohol-abusing
adolescents to one of three treatments: multidimensional family therapy (MDFT), adolescent …

The goals of this second edition are to examine how the areas of health, illness, and
medicine can be studied from a psychological and cultural perspective and to introduce the …

This study examined alcohol use from pre-adolescence to mid-adolescence and determined
the influence of hypothesized covariates on changes in alcohol use rates during this …

Although the neighborhood microsystem is recognized as an important domain for
adolescent development, relative to the family and peer contexts, neighborhood factors have …

This study examined the relation of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality to symptoms
of alcohol and marijuana abuse before and after controlling for symptoms of antisocial …

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of an intervention on strengthening
resiliency among African American preadolescent girls using a relational and Africentric …

The research presented here reports on sustainability of the practices within the National
Implementing Evidence Based Practices Project for people with serious mental illness. Forty …