scholarly journals Sustained Decreases in Risk Exposure and Youth Problem Behaviors After Installation of the Communities That Care Prevention System in a Randomized Trial

2012 ◽  
Vol 166 (2) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Risk Exposure ◽  
Communities That Care ◽  
Prevention System ◽  
Youth Problem Behaviors

scholarly journals Effects of Exposure to the Communities That Care Prevention System on Youth Problem Behaviors in a Community-Randomized Trial: Employing an Inverse Probability Weighting Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac C. Rhew ◽  
Sabrina Oesterle ◽  
Donna Coffman ◽  
J. David Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Inverse Probability ◽  
Communities That Care ◽  
Prevention System ◽  
Youth Problem Behaviors

Earlier intention-to-treat (ITT) findings from a community-randomized trial demonstrated effects of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system on reducing problem behaviors among youth. In ITT analyses, youth were analyzed according to their original study community’s randomized condition even if they moved away from the community over the course of follow-up and received little to no exposure to intervention activities. Using inverse probability weights (IPWs), this study estimated effects of CTC in the same randomized trial among youth who remained in their original study communities throughout follow-up. Data were from the Community Youth Development Study, a community-randomized trial of 24 small towns in the United States. A cohort of 4,407 youth was followed from fifth grade (prior to CTC implementation) to eighth grade. IPWs for one’s own moving status were calculated using fifth- and sixth-grade covariates. Results from inverse probability weighted multilevel models indicated larger effects for youth who remained in their study community for the first 2 years of CTC intervention implementation compared to ITT estimates. These effects included reduced likelihood of alcohol use, binge drinking, smokeless tobacco use, and delinquent behavior. These findings strengthen support for CTC as an efficacious system for preventing youth problem behaviors.

scholarly journals Youth Problem Behaviors 8 Years After Implementing the Communities That Care Prevention System

2014 ◽  
Vol 168 (2) ◽  
pp. 122 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Hawkins ◽  
Sabrina Oesterle ◽  
Eric C. Brown ◽  
Robert D. Abbott ◽  
Richard F. Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Communities That Care ◽  
Prevention System ◽  
Youth Problem Behaviors

Interparental Conflict Styles and Youth Problem Behaviors: A Two-Sample Replication Study

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Buehler ◽  
Ambika Krishnakumar ◽  
Gaye Stone ◽  
Christine Anthony ◽  
Sharon Pemberton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Interparental Conflict ◽  
Replication Study ◽  
Conflict Styles ◽  
Youth Problem Behaviors

scholarly journals Community Readiness to Adopt the Communities That Care Prevention System in an Urban Setting

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. S59-S69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Capetra J. Parker ◽  
Willie Winston III ◽  
Tina Simpson ◽  
Sonya S. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Urban Setting ◽  
Community Readiness ◽  
Communities That Care ◽  
Prevention System ◽  
Readiness To Adopt

Identity Distress, Parental Response, and Problem Behaviors in Juvenile Justice-Involved Boys

2020 ◽  
pp. 009385482096888
Author(s):  
Baptiste Barbot ◽  
Sascha Hein
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Parental Response ◽  
Externalizing Problem ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multiple Problem Behaviors ◽  
Youth Problem Behaviors

Youth involved with the juvenile justice system are not exempt from experiencing identity-related turmoil that is common during adolescence. Parents’ responses may exacerbate or mitigate this turmoil and, in turn, youth problem behaviors. Thus, this study investigated identity distress as a mediator of the relationship between parental response to adolescents’ distress and their problem behaviors among 113 detained males aged 12 to 18 ( Mage = 15.3, SD = 1.44) in Connecticut, USA. Participants completed measures of identity distress, parental response to their developmental distress, and multiple problem behaviors. A latent mediation model indicated that a supportive parental response was directly associated with decreased problem behaviors, whereas an avoidant parental response was indirectly associated with increased problem behaviors through increased identity distress. Developmentally salient identity-related distress of juveniles and the corresponding response of their parents are important to consider in understanding youth externalizing problem behaviors within the juvenile justice system.

Communities that Care

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail A. Fagan ◽  
J. David Hawkins ◽  
David P. Farrington ◽  
Richard F. Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Positive Interactions ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Youth Behavior ◽  
Communities That Care ◽  
Prevention System ◽  
Effective Community

Evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches are advocated to improve public health and reduce youth behavior problems, but there are few effective models for doing so. This book advances knowledge about this topic by describing the conditions and actions necessary for effective community-based prevention. The chapters review the ways in which communities can promote readiness to engage in prevention among local stakeholders; build and maintain diverse, well-functioning prevention coalitions; conduct local needs and resource assessments; collectively decide on prevention priorities; select evidence-based interventions that are a good fit with prioritized community needs, resources, and context; and implement evidence-based interventions (EBIs) with fidelity and sustain them over time. The Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system is described in detail to illustrate effective community-based prevention. CTC is a coalition-based prevention system shown to promote healthy youth development and reduce youth behavior problems community wide. It does so by assisting communities to: (1) increase awareness of and support for EBIs; (2) encourage positive interactions between community residents and youth; (3) conduct local needs assessments and collectively decide on priorities to target with EBIs; (4) implement EBIs that are matched to prioritized needs; and (5) ensure that EBIs are coordinated across community organizations, implemented with fidelity, widely disseminated, and evaluated. The book describes the development and evaluation of the CTC system, including how its developers used community-based participatory research to ensure that CTC could be feasibly implemented and employed rigorous research methods to assess the degree to which use of the system reduced adolescent behavior problems.

scholarly journals Testing the Universality of the Effects of the Communities That Care Prevention System for Preventing Adolescent Drug Use and Delinquency

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Oesterle ◽  
J. David Hawkins ◽  
Abigail A. Fagan ◽  
Robert D. Abbott ◽  
Richard F. Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Adolescent Drug Use ◽  
Communities That Care ◽  
Prevention System

scholarly journals Enhancing Resourcefulness to Improve Outcomes in Family Caregivers and Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Pilot Randomized Trial

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth W. Gonzalez ◽  
Marcia Polansky ◽  
Carol F. Lippa ◽  
Laura N. Gitlin ◽  
Jaclene A. Zauszniewski
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Medium Effect ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Care Recipients ◽  
The Difference

This pilot randomized trial tested an intervention aimed at enhancing resourcefulness in family caregivers of persons with dementia, postulating that caregivers’ emotional outcomes (anxiety and depression) and role outcomes (reward, strain, mutuality, and preparedness) would be improved, and problem behaviors in the care recipients (persons with dementia) would be reduced as a result of the intervention. Subjects were stratified by race (white or African American) and by baseline resourcefulness (high or low). Family caregivers were randomly assigned to an intervention group in which subjects attended six resourcefulness training sessions, meeting for 2 hours weekly over 6 weeks, or to a control group that received no treatment. Small to medium effects were shown for the intervention program on resourcefulness, anxiety, and preparedness of the caregivers and on frequency of behavior problems in the care recipients. Caregivers in the intervention group reported significantly more resourcefulness skills, with a medium effect at week 6 and a small effect 12 weeks later, compared with the control group. Persons with dementia had fewer behavior problems in the intervention group compared with control, although the difference was not significant. Caregivers’ anxiety was reduced in the intervention group at 12 weeks.

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