Background The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Health Promoting Schools (HPS)
framework is an holistic, settings‐based approach to promoting health and educational …

Background Community engagement has been advanced as a promising way of improving
health and reducing health inequalities; however, the approach is not yet supported by a …

This paper describes the theoretical and empirical foundations of Familias Unidas, a
multilevel, family-centered intervention designed to prevent problem behavior in Hispanic …

This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

The authors are grateful to Professor Albert Bandura for critical and detailed comments on
the first draft, Katherine Sterba for insightful editorial help, Brenda Spence for indispensable …

Positive youth development is thought to be essential to the prevention of adolescent risk
behavior and the promotion of thriving. This meta-analysis examined the effects of positive …

Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to
manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities | The National Academies Press Skip to main content Navigate to Help Ordering …

Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) addresses both the psychosocial dynamics influencing
health behavior and methods for promoting behavioral change. Within SCT, human …

In the past decade, prevention science has emerged as a discipline built on the integration
of life course development research, community epidemiology, and preventive intervention …