Preventive Interventions for High-Risk Youth: The Adolescent Transitions Program

Dishion, Thomas J.; Andrews, David W.; Kavanagh, Katie; Soberman, Lawrence H.

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“…The overall sample included 224 participants (111 boys, 113 girls) aged 10-14 at outset of study. Families were recruited through a number of sources, including newspaper ads, community flyers, school counselors, and other community professionals, with negligible differences found across families related to the source of recruitment (Dishion, Andrews, Kavanagh, & Soberman, 1996). In an initial telephone interview with potential participants, parents were asked to report on 10 areas of early adolescent risk: closeness to parents, academic engagement, emotional adjustment, experience seeking, involvement in prosocial activities, problem behaviors, the child's substance use, peer substance use, family substance use history, and stressful life events (Bry, McKeon, & Pardina, 1982).…”

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“…In an initial telephone interview with potential participants, parents were asked to report on 10 areas of early adolescent risk: closeness to parents, academic engagement, emotional adjustment, experience seeking, involvement in prosocial activities, problem behaviors, the child's substance use, peer substance use, family substance use history, and stressful life events (Bry, McKeon, & Pardina, 1982). Parents who reported the current presence of at least four risk factors were invited to participate further in the study (for additional information, see Dishion & Andrews, 1995;Dishion et al, 1996).Nearly two-thirds of the current families participated in a brief prevention program targeting early-adolescent substance use, presented in either a family-or teen-group format. Intervention effects were found for child substance use, in addition to parent-child interaction quality, family conflict, and teacher, parent, and child-reported disruptive behavior (see Dishion & Andrews, 1995;Dishion et al, 1996).…”

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“…Parents who reported the current presence of at least four risk factors were invited to participate further in the study (for additional information, see Dishion & Andrews, 1995;Dishion et al, 1996).…”

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The contribution of peers to monthly variation in adolescent depressed mood: A short-term longitudinal study with time-varying predictors

Connell

Dishion

2006

Develop. Psychopathol.

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This study examined peer predictors of variation and growth in depressed mood among high-risk adolescents, using child and parent reports of monthly symptoms. One hundred seventy-six parents and their 10-to 14-year-old children separately took part in a series of up to nine monthly interviews. Multilevel growth models examined both time-varying peer predictors of parent and child reports of the child's depressive symptoms, controlling for age, gender, and treatment status. Deviant peer affiliation significantly predicted elevated depressive symptoms in the monthly child-report of depressed mood, especially for younger adolescents. Children's level of delinquency was significantly related to parent-reported depressive symptoms, and to child-reported symptoms in older adolescents only. As expected, depressed mood was higher for girls and more prevalent among older adolescents. The results suggest that peer processes may be linked in time to the development of depression, especially among high-risk adolescents.In light of the number of children and adolescents who experience clinically significant depression, with the associated serious long-term implications for later functioning (e.g., Fergusson & Woodward, 2002;Lewinsohn, Rohde, Seeley, Klein, & Gotlib, 2003), the search for specific, modifiable risk factors has been central to research in development and psychopathology. In the effort to design effective prevention and intervention strategies, additional studies are needed that examine multivariate models of the developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms across adolescence. Although a number of studies have focused on individual or family predictors of depressive symptoms, research on peer-relational processes in the development of internalizing problems across childhood and adolescence received much less attention (Deater-Deckard, 2001). The limited body of research on peer processes in depression stands in stark contrast to the robust literature on peer processes predicting conduct problems in youth. Research on peer influences on the development of conduct problems in childhood and adolescence has documented the importance of developmental pathways from early peer rejection to increased affiliation with deviant peer groups in supporting the increase in children's conduct problems (including aggression, criminal behavior, and drug use) across early development (Dishion, 2000;Dishion, French, & Patterson, 1995). In light of the importance of interpersonal/interactional models of depression (see Joiner & Coyne, 1999), this gap in the corresponding literature related to depression in youth marks a serious oversight.The role of peers in depressed mood or disorder may be especially salient in early adolescence. In early adolescence, children spend increasing amounts of time with peers, such that peer- NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript group relations are likely to play an increasingly central role in shaping their affective experiences and social trajectories...

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The contribution of peers to monthly variation in adolescent depressed mood: A short-term longitudinal study with time-varying predictors

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2006

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“…The principal reason is that the child will gravitate toward a deviant peer group by early adolescence (Dishion et al, 1991). The deviant peer group serves as a training ground for antisocial and violent behavior from middle to late adolescence (Dishion, Andrews, Kavanagh, & Soberman, 1996;Dishion, Eddy, Haas, Li, & Spracklen, 1997). Deviant peer groups further increase the risk of substance abuse (Dishion, Capaldi, Spracklen, & Li, 1995), which has been strongly linked to partner violence in adults (Murphy, O'Farrell, Fals-Stewart, & Feehan, 2001).…”

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Intergenerational transmission of partner violence: A 20-year prospective study.

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An unselected sample of 543 children was followed over 20 years to test the independent effects of parenting, exposure to domestic violence between parents (ETDV), maltreatment, adolescent disruptive behavior disorders, and emerging adult substance abuse disorders (SUDs) on the risk of violence to and from an adult partner. Conduct disorder (CD) was the strongest risk for perpetrating partner violence for both sexes, followed by ETDV, and power assertive punishment. The effect of child abuse was attributable to these 3 risks. ETDV conferred the greatest risk of receiving partner violence; CD increased the odds of receiving partner violence but did not mediate this effect. Child physical abuse and CD in adolescence were strong independent risks for injury to a partner. SUD mediated the effect of adolescent CD on injury to a partner but not on injury by a partner. Prevention implications are highlighted.

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“…Then, individuals with high-risk profiles-a greater number of risk factors, or risk factors of greater severity-are targeted to receive selective or indicated preventions that provide more intensive and multifaceted services. In some cases, prevention programs will initially implement a universal model and then look to implement an additional selective or indicated model for subgroups of participants who demonstrate greater need~Dishion, Andrews, Kavanagh, & Soberman, 1996!. Currently, family-based prevention models that target selective and indicated populations are far less prevalent than those targeting universal populations~Tolan, 1996!. This may be due in large part to the greater demands of implementing prevention programs for high-risk youth and families.…”

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Family‐based prevention counseling for high‐risk young adolescents: Immediate outcomes

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Becker

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Journal Community Psychology

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The contribution of peers to monthly variation in adolescent depressed mood: A short-term longitudinal study with time-varying predictors

The contribution of peers to monthly variation in adolescent depressed mood: A short-term longitudinal study with time-varying predictors

Intergenerational transmission of partner violence: A 20-year prospective study.

Family‐based prevention counseling for high‐risk young adolescents: Immediate outcomes

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