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• Title: Advances and Challenges in Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Problem Behavior (Editorial)
• Author : Social Work Research
• Release Date : January 01, 2006
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 191 KB

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Prevention has recently been heralded as an effective way to reduce the adverse effects associated with childhood and adolescent problem behavior. Bolstered by new evidence indicating that empirically based curricula can prevent or delay the onset of problems such as drug use or delinquency, many communities have strengthened their commitment to providing prevention programs in local neighborhoods and schools (Gottfredson & Wilson, 2003). This renewed interest in strategies aimed at preventing childhood and adolescent problems follows a period of unprecedented advancement in the general field of prevention (Greenberg, 2004; Hawkins, Catalano, & Arthur, 2002). Prevention has changed significantly in the past several decades. In 1984, I was a doctoral student at the University of Washington studying the etiology, prevention, and treatment of juvenile delinquency and substance abuse. During my studies at the School of Social Work, I was fortunate to work on a federally funded intervention trial led by Professors J. David Hawkins and Richard f. Catalano of the Social Development Research Group (SDRG). When I began my doctoral training, SDRG was a small group of committed researchers interested in identifying risk and protective factors associated with the onset and persistence of childhood and adolescent antisocial behavior. Knowledge of risk and protective traits, guided by theoretical constructs from the social development model of antisocial behavior (Catalano & Hawkins, 1996), was being used by SDRG members to design and test interventions for high-risk children and families in longitudinal controlled trials. Today SDRG is composed of a nationally recognized community of scholars who have made significant contributions to understanding the developmental processes leading to antisocial conduct and to developing and testing prevention programs aimed at interrupting these processes. As a testament to this progress, I am pleased to publish in this issue the Aaron Rosen Lecture presented by J. David Hawkins at the 2005 meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). Recent advances and current challenges in prevention are chronicled in the following section and in remarks to the SSWR membership offered by Professor Hawkins.

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