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Direct linkChen, Joe; Choi, Yun Jeong; Mori, Kohta; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Sugano, Saki – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This paper contributes to the literature of suicide studies by presenting procedures and its estimates of the number of family members who lose their loved ones to suicide. Using Japanese aggregate level data, three main findings emerge: first, there are approximately five bereaved family members per suicide; second, in 2006, there were about…
Descriptors: Prevention, Suicide, Public Policy, Cost Effectiveness
Lopez, Barbara; Wang, Wei; Schwartz, Seth J.; Prado, Guillermo; Huang, Shi; Brown, C. Hendricks; Pantin, Hilda; Szapocznik, Jose – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2009
The purpose of the present study was to examine how relationships among family, school, and peer factors relate to likelihood of substance use in Hispanic adolescents. Results indicated that only perceived peer substance use was directly related to adolescents' own substance use. A significant interaction was found between parental monitoring and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Peer Influence, Substance Abuse, Hispanic Americans
La Greca, Annette M.; Silverman, Wendy K.; Lochman, John E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
This Special Section of the "Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology" focuses on research that extends beyond documenting the efficacy and effectiveness of specific psychological treatments or preventive interventions for children and youths. In the past 30 years, there have been remarkable advances in the development and evaluation of…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, Adolescents, Program Effectiveness, Clinical Psychology
Simon, Thomas R.; Ikeda, Robin M.; Smith, Emilie Phillips; Reese, Le'Roy E.; Rabiner, David L.; Miller, Shari; Winn, Donna-Marie; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Asher, Steven R.; Horne, Arthur M.; Orpinas, Pamela; Martin, Roy; Quinn, William H.; Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B.; Gay, Franklin N.; Schoeny, Michael; Farrell, Albert D.; Meyer, Aleta L.; Sullivan, Terri N.; Allison, Kevin W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
This study reports the findings of a multisite randomized trial evaluating the separate and combined effects of 2 school-based approaches to reduce violence among early adolescents. A total of 37 schools at 4 sites were randomized to 4 conditions: (1) a universal intervention that involved implementing a student curriculum and teacher training…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Prevention, Social Influences
Pascall, Melvin A.; Lee, Ken; Fraser, Angela; Halim, Linna – Journal of Food Science Education, 2009
A focus group with an educational component was used to help initiate a new research hypothesis. Early-stage development of a new tamper-evident invention was improved with input from a consumer focus group. The focus group comprised consumers who were shown several tamper-evident devices, including a new color-changing cap under active…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Negative Attitudes, Focus Groups, Instructional Effectiveness
Wodehouse, G.; McGill, P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Many family carers find the support they receive in respect of their child's challenging behaviour unhelpful. This study sought to identify carer perceptions of the ways in which support is unhelpful and how it could be more helpful. Methods: Thirteen mothers, caring for a child with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour,…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Family Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Caregivers
Bowen, Gary L. – Prevention Researcher, 2009
The Eco-Interactional Developmental model of school success provides an understanding of the synergetic role that neighborhoods, schools, families, and peers can play in increasing the proportion of students who successfully complete high school. This article reviews the challenges involved in graduating high school students, presents the EID…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, Models, Social Environment
Floyd, R. Louise; Weber, Mary Kate; Denny, Clark; O'Connor, Mary J. – Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2009
Alcohol use among women of childbearing age is a leading, preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities in the United States. Although most women reduce their alcohol use upon pregnancy recognition, some women report drinking during pregnancy and others may continue to drink prior to realizing they are pregnant. These findings…
Descriptors: Females, Prevention, Pregnancy, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Koffman, Stephen; Ray, Alice; Berg, Sarah; Covington, Larry; Albarran, Nadine M.; Vasquez, Max – Children & Schools, 2009
Youths in gang-ridden neighborhoods are at risk for trauma-related mental health disorders, which are early indicators of likely school failure and delinquency. Such youths rarely seek out services for these problems. The Juvenile Intervention and Prevention Program (JIPP), a school-based gang intervention and prevention program in Los Angeles,…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Intervention, Delinquency Prevention, Youth Programs
Lang, Jason M.; Waterman, Jill; Baker, Bruce L. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2009
Computeen, a preventive technology and psychosocial skills development program for at-risk adolescents, was designed to improve computer skills, self-esteem, and school attitudes, and reduce behavior problems, by combining elements of community-based and empirically supported prevention programs. Fifty-five mostly Latino adolescents from 12 to 16…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, School Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Prevention
Sprang, Ginny – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2009
As practitioners have expanded their understanding of the types of events that constitute trauma exposure, the epidemiological database on prevalence suggests that childhood exposure to violence may best be framed as a public health crisis. There seems to be little recognition from policymakers and legislators, however, that violence may be the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Correctional Institutions, Public Health, Child Health
Segal, Daniel L. – Death Studies, 2009
A substantial literature has documented that sexual abuse relates to suicidal behaviors but relatively less is known about resilience to suicide, especially cognitive deterrents to suicide. The present study investigated the effects of a history of sexual victimization on reasons for living. Female participants (N = 138; M age = 24.4 years; SD =…
Descriptors: Rape, Females, Prevention, Suicide
Hodge, Felicia Schanche – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2009
A community-based Wellness Circles Program was designed and implemented at 13 sites in California to evaluate a culturally appropriate community-based health care model for American Indian families. Data obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) that was administered to a subset of women demonstrate that American Indian…
Descriptors: Females, American Indians, Screening Tests, Cancer
Wolfe, David A.; Crooks, Claire C.; Chiodo, Debbie; Jaffe, Peter – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2009
Learning to relate to others begins at birth and carries forward to new relationships, which is why child maltreatment and exposure to intimate partner violence have emerged as powerful risk factors for future coercive and hostile relationship patterns. Although not inevitable, it is more likely that children who are victims of maltreatment will…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Bullying, At Risk Persons
Fagen, Michael C.; Flay, Brian R. – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
Sustaining effective school-based prevention programs is critical to improving youth and population-based health. This article reports on results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project, an effort to sustain a school-based prevention program that was tested via a randomized trial and targeted violence, drug use, and risky sex-related behaviors…
Descriptors: African American Children, Prevention, Drug Use, Health Promotion
