Background Findings from systematic reviews and meta-analyses about the effectiveness of
school-based programmes to prevent or reduce substance abuse are inconclusive. We …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities Page 1 Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse …

The quality of parent–child relationships likely influences many decisions and behaviors
made by early adolescents, including their alcohol and marijuana use. We examined how …

A comprehensive account of the causes of alcohol misuse must accommodate individual
differences in biology, psychology and environment, and must disentangle cause and effect …

High-stakes tests. Substance abuse. Suicide. Academic standards. Delinquency. Media and
technology. Teacher retention. Interpersonal violence. Dropouts. Changes in families. The …

Increased availability of research-supported, school-based prevention programs, coupled
with the growing national policy emphasis on use of evidence-based practices, has …

Research on the prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents was
reviewed and synthesized with meta-analysis. When all 30 studies were included, selective …

Good education predicts good health, and disparities in health and in educational
achievement are closely linked. Despite these connections, public health professionals …

When developmental psychologists set forth the theory that the roots of adult
psychopathology could be traced to childhood experience and behavior, the idea quickly …

We systematically searched 9 biomedical and social science databases (1980–2012) for
primary and secondary interventions that prevented or reduced 2 or more adolescent health …