Seven hundred thirty-one income-eligible families in 3 geographical regions who were enrolled a national food supplement program screened and randomized to brief family intervention. At child ages 2 3, the intervention group caregivers offered Family Check-Up linked parenting support services. Latent growth models on caregiver reports at 2, 4 revealed decreased behavior problems when compared with control group. Intervention effects occurred predominantly among reporting high levels of...

Abstract Maternal depression has been consistently linked to the development of child problem behavior, particularly in early childhood, but few studies have examined whether reductions maternal serve as a mediator relation changes associated with family-based intervention. The current study addressed this issue sample 731 families receiving services from national food supplement and nutrition program. Families toddlers between ages 2 3 were screened then randomized brief family...

This study used Complier Average Causal Effect analysis (CACE; see G. Imbens & D. Rubin, 1997) to examine the impact of an adaptive approach family intervention in public schools on rates substance use and antisocial behavior among students ages 11-17. Students were randomly assigned a family-centered (N = 998) 6th grade offered multilevel that included (a) universal classroom-based intervention, (b) Family Check-Up (selected; T. J. Dishion K. Kavanagh, 2003), (c) management treatment...

This study examined the impact of Family Check‐Up (FCU) and linked intervention services on reducing health‐risk behaviors promoting social adaptation among middle school youth. A total 593 students their families were randomly assigned to receive either or as usual. Forty‐two percent engaged in service received FCU. Using complier average causal effect analyses, engagement moderated outcomes. Families who had youth reported lower rates antisocial behavior substance use over time than did a...

The authors examined the longitudinal effects of Family Check-Up (FCU) on parents' positive behavior support and children's school readiness competencies in early childhood. It was hypothesized that FCU would promote language skills inhibitory control children at risk for problems as an indirect outcome associated with targeted improvements support. High-risk families Women, Infants, Children Nutrition Program participated a multisite preventive intervention study (N = 731) 3 yearly...

The Adolescent Transitions Program (ATP) is a family-focused multilevel prevention program designed for delivery within public middle schools to target parenting factors related the development of behavior problems in early adolescence. current study examines effects ATP on youth depressive symptoms across adolescence sample 106 high-risk youths. Youths were recruited 6th grade, and selected as high risk based teacher parent reports behavioral or emotional problems. Depression mother 7th,...

This study investigated moderators of change in an empirically supported family-centered intervention (the Family Check-Up) for problem behavior early childhood. Participants were 731 2- to 3-year-olds (49% girls; 28% African American, 50% European 13% biracial) from low-income families and had been screened risk family stress early-onset behavior. They randomized the Check-Up or a no-intervention control group. Latent growth models examined sociodemographic parent psychological factors as...

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the concept of self‐regulation as a measure resilience in children and adolescents. Developmental psychology neuroscience are converging role attention control central ability underlying self‐regulation. We collected measures adolescent from parents youth, teachers. The effortful correlated highly with teacher ratings composite (youth, parent, report) was found to moderate impact peer deviance antisocial behavior, well stress depression. These findings...

Family-centered prevention programs are understudied for their effects on adolescent depression, despite considerable evidence that supports effectiveness preventing escalation in youth problem behavior and substance use. This study was conducted with 2 overarching goals: (a) replicate previous work has implicated the Family Check-Up (FCU), a multilevel, gated intervention model embedded public middle schools, as an effective strategy growth depressive symptoms (b) test whether changes...

This 4-year study of 698 young adolescents examined the covariates early onset substance use from Grade 6 through 9. The youth were randomly assigned to a family-centered Adolescent Transitions Program (ATP) condition. Variable-centered (zero-inflated Poisson growth model) and person-centered (latent mixture approaches taken examine treatment effects on patterns substance-use development across adolescence. analyses revealed both decreasing likelihood initiating rate in among those who...

Aims: This article details the application of Complier Average Causal Effect (CACE) analysis to examination youth outcomes from adaptive substance use prevention trials. Methods: CACE is illustrated using youth-reports tobacco-use ages 11 22, Adolescent Transitions Program, a family-focused randomized encouragement trial designed for delivery in school setting Results: Female gender and early peer deviance predicted family engagement with active intervention components. Further, long-term...

Various developmental models have attempted to explain the relationship between antisocial behavior and depressive symptoms in youth, often proposing intermediary processes such as social academic functioning. However, few studies tested these fully, particularly mixed‐gender samples. The current study strives fill this gap literature, examining an early adolescent sample. Results indicated both direct indirect paths depression. In addition, potentially important gender differences were...

The impact of the Family Check‐Up (FCU), a school‐based prevention program, as delivered in public secondary schools on suicide risk across adolescence, was examined. Students were randomly assigned to family‐centered intervention ( N = 998) sixth grade and offered multilevel that included (1) universal classroom‐based intervention, (2) FCU (Dishion, Stormshak, & Kavanagh, 2011), (3) family management treatment. Engagement with predicted significant reductions adolescence early adulthood.

This study examined physiological linkage (specifically, in respiratory sinus arrhythmia; RSA) between parents and youth (aged 11-17) across conflict fun activity discussion tasks. We also whether observed, momentary negative affect or parental depressive symptoms, would moderate patterns of RSA the interaction was assessed using a multilevel actor-partner interdependence model (APIM). Participants were 59 mother-adolescent dyads, including mothers with without clinically significant...

Although theoretical models highlight the role of coping motivations in promoting co-development depression and alcohol use, few longitudinal studies have examined such processes across early adulthood. The current study association between use late adolescence A control sample adolescents (N = 498) from a prevention trial completed Brief Symptom Inventory, Life Events Coping self-report survey on at ages 17, 22, 23, as well Composite International Diagnostic Interview age 28-30. Path...

Abstract Recent advances in statistical techniques for longitudinal data analysis have provided increased capabilities elucidating individual differences trajectories of change child behaviours and abilities. However, most still assume that there is a single underlying distribution with respect to changes over time, about which children are normally distributed. If multiple subgroups youth following distinct developmental unique predictors, however, the results these may provide an...

Maternal depression is associated with problematic parenting and the development of emotional behavior problems in children adolescents. While regulatory abilities are likely to influence exchanges between parents teens, surprisingly little known about role emotion regulation during parent-child interactions, particularly high-risk families. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) has been widely linked recent research, current study investigated RSA maternal relation dyadic flexibility, as well...