Handbook of Adolescent Drug Use Prevention

Lawrence M. Scheier, PhD, is senior fellow at the Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania. He is also Chief of Science, Research Facilitation Team, Army Analytics Group, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army. Dr. Scheier is author of more than 100 articles and essays looking at studies of youth development, resilience, and factors that spur positive youth adaptation. He has also edited four books on grant writing, parenting, drug etiology, and drug prevention. His current research program emphasizes the role of psychological strengths and assets in health outcomes and health care utilization among U.S. Army soldiers. Dr. Scheier is a nationally and internationally renowned scholar who blends theory and methodological tools with longitudinal data mining to examine psychosocial factors that influence growth and change in normal development. He has also examined programmatic-based change with many different school- and community-based drug prevention approaches. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he has engaged the private business sector in research on youth development and health. Dr. Scheier has been a member of several national government panels, including the Media Campaign Advisory Team for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign and assisted the U.S. Department of Education in a large-scale program evaluation of school-based mandatory school drug testing. He has provided expert consulting to the federal government on matters related to youth drug treatment and school-based drug prevention programs.

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Telling a Compelling Story About Drug Prevention
Joseph A. Durlak

I.Historical Trends in Drug Prevention: What Got Us Here?



Drug Use Prevention: Definitions and Terminology
Elizabeth B. Robertson, Harold I. Perl, Eve E. Reider, Belinda E. Sims, Aria D. Crump, and Wilson M. Compton
A History of Drug Abuse Prevention Science
William Bukoski

II. Epidemiology and Etiology: Risk and Protective Factors



Trends in Drug Use Among Youth in the United States
Megan E. Patrick and Patrick M. O'Malley
Theoretical Models of Drug Use Etiology: Foundations of Prevention
Lawrence M. Scheier
Vulnerability and Risks: Implications for Understanding Etiology and Drug Use Prevention
Zili Sloboda

III. Prevention of Conduct Disorders



Preventing Conduct Disorders and Related Problems
Caroline L. Boxmeyer, John E. Lochman, Nicole P. Powell, and Cameron E. Powe
Self-Control and Substance Use Prevention: A Translational Analysis
Thomas A. Wills, Jeffrey S. Simons, and Frederick X. Gibbons
Preventive Intervention to Reduce Youth Conduct Problems and Substance Use: Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
J. Mark Eddy, Susan E. Barkan, and Lindsay Lanham

IV. School-Based Drug Use Prevention Programs



Evaluating the Efficacy of Project TND: Evidence From Seven Research Trials
Steven Y. Sussman
Life Skills Training: A Competence Enhancement Approach to Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Abuse Prevention
Gilbert J. Botvin and Kenneth W. Griffin
All Stars: A Conceptual History
William B. Hansen
Peer Group Connection: A Peer-Led Program Targeting the Transition Into High School
Robert J. Pandina, Valerie L. Johnson, and Sherry L. Barr

V. Family-Based Drug Use Prevention Programs



A Population Approach to Parenting and Family Intervention
Ronald J. Prinz
Brief Strategic Family Therapy: Thirty-Five Years of Interplay Among Theory, Research, and Practice in Adolescent Behavior Problems and Drug Abuse
Viviana E. Horigian and José Szapocznik
Research on the Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10–14: Long-Term Effects, Mechanisms, Translation to Public Health, PROSPER Partnership Scale Up
Richard Spoth, Cleve Redmond, W. Alex Mason, Lisa Schainker, and Lauren Borduin
Family-Centered Prevention of Adolescent Drug Abuse: Translational Research in a Public Health Framework
Thomas J. Dishion, Marie-Hélène Véronneau, Elizabeth A. Stormshak, and Kathryn Kavanagh

VI.Prevention From an Environmental and Policy Perspective



Lessons From Comprehensive Environmental Community Prevention Trials
Robert F. Saltz, Joel W. Grube, and Andrew J. Treno
Alcohol Policy: Interventions to Prevent Youth Alcohol Use
Sarah D. Lynne-Landsman and Alexander C. Wagenaar
Enacting Preventive Interventions at the Community Level: The Communities That Care Prevention System
Abigail A. Fagan and J. David Hawkins

VII. Media Campaigns and Their Impact



Survival of Public Health Social Marketing Campaigns: Lessons Learned From Tobacco
Jennifer K. Ibrahim
Message Design Approaches to Health Risk Behavior Prevention
Nancy Grant Harrington, Donald W. Helme, and Seth M. Noar
The Media Campaign as a Focal Prevention Strategy: A Guide to Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
William D. Crano, Eusebio M. Alvaro, and Jason T. Siegel

VIII. Evaluation of Drug Use Prevention: Modeling Behavior Change and Program Effects



Latent Variable Modeling as a Tool in Research on Drug Prevention
Patrick S. Malone and Darren T. Woodlief
Cigarette Smoking Patterns as a Case Study of Theory-Oriented Latent Class Analysis
Brian P. Flaherty
Statistical Models of Mediation for Drug Program Evaluation
Yasemin Kisbu-Sakarya, David P. MacKinnon, and Holly P. O'Rourke
Growth Redefined in Terms of Preventing Drug Use and Delinquency
W. Alex Mason, Eric C. Brown, Charles B. Fleming, and Kevin P. Haggerty

IX.Dissemination of Best Practices



Promoting the Postfunding Sustainability of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Interventions Through Research and Practice
Melissa K. Tibbits
The Dissemination and (Lack of) Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices
James H. Derzon
Dissemination of Evidence-Based Prevention Programs: The Broad Picture
Elise T. Pas and Catherine P. Bradshaw
Concluding Remarks: The Future Is Here Now
Lawrence M. Scheier

Index

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