Table of Contents
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
About the Editor
About the Author
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.
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