- By Dartington SRU
- Posted on Thursday 29th May, 2014
On the other hand – perhaps better not
Researchers in Los Angeles say there is no middle ground: being surrounded by your friends is either very good for you – or very bad – depending on how well behaved your friends are.The University of South California team is known in the prevention field for developing the successful Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), a substance abuse prevention programme endorsed by Blueprints and…
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- Posted on Thursday 29th May, 2014
Reducing college drinking: do peer or parent interventions help most?
For new college students caught up in the excitement of living away from home, drinking without their parents’ restraint or supervision can be one of the sweetest marks of independence – and one of the most risky.Can concerned parents do more to guide their child’s decisions about alcohol use during this new stage? Perhaps – but perhaps not by themselves. According to a recent study, peer…
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- Posted on Thursday 29th May, 2014
No longer lost in translation?
Evidence-based parenting and family intervention programmes are effective in improving parenting skills, parent-child relationships and long-term outcomes for children. However, the most convincingly tested programmes have been developed in the United States and other English-speaking countries, giving rise to scepticism about their suitability for use in other language and cultural contexts. In E…
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