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Mireille Tabin; Ishita Khemka; Linda Hickson – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2024
Background: Although older adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities face high risks of maltreatment, there are few interventions available to reduce these risks. This study describes the development of a research-based intervention that aims to reduce the risks of maltreatment for this population. Method: The development involved…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Older Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Lora J. Henderson; Belinda E. Hernandez; Kate Joshua; Dustina Gill; Jessika H. Bottiani – Grantee Submission, 2022
Indigenous communities demonstrate immense cultural strengths despite being impacted by mental health and academic disparities due to ongoing systemic racism and historical trauma. Given that schools are a context in which indigenous youths' needs have potential to be met through preventive intervention, this scoping review explores and summarizes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Prevention, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students
Lora Henderson Smith; Belinda E. Hernandez; Kate Joshua; Dustina Gill; Jessika H. Bottiani – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
Indigenous communities demonstrate immense cultural strengths despite being impacted by mental health and academic disparities due to ongoing systemic racism and historical trauma. Given that schools are a context in which indigenous youths' needs have potential to be met through preventive intervention, this scoping review explores and summarizes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Prevention, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students
Vagi, Kevin J.; Rothman, Emily F.; Latzman, Natasha E.; Tharp, Andra Teten; Hall, Diane M.; Breiding, Matthew J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Dating violence is a serious public health problem. In recent years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other entities have made funding available to community based agencies for dating violence prevention. Practitioners who are tasked with developing dating violence prevention strategies should pay particular attention to…
Descriptors: Prevention, Risk, Public Health, Adolescents
Limber, Susan P. – Journal of School Violence, 2011
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) is a comprehensive, school-wide program that was designed in the mid-1980s to reduce bullying and achieve better peer relations among students in elementary, middle, and junior high school grades. Key program elements are described and a number of cultural adaptations to U.S. schools are noted. Several…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Foreign Countries, Program Development
Aguirre, Regina T. P.; Slater, Holli – Death Studies, 2010
The authors asserted the need for increased postvention efforts for suicide survivors, individuals left behind to grieve the loss of a loved one by suicide, because they have an increased risk for suicide. Indeed, Shneidman (1972) asserted that suicide postvention efforts serve the dual purpose of assisting survivors through the grief process and…
Descriptors: Grief, Prevention, Suicide, Program Development
Schmidt, Norman B.; Zvolensky, Michael J. – Behavior Modification, 2007
In relation to treatment-related research in the United States, there is relatively little systematic effort focused on the combination of risk and prevention for anxiety pathology. This article broadly discusses risk factor research and prevention program development for anxiety psychopathology. The authors also specifically discuss papers in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Anxiety, At Risk Persons, Program Development
Cash, Terry; Duttweiler, Patricia Cloud – National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (NPDC/N), Clemson University, 2006
This truancy prevention publication provides a general background discussion on the issue of truancy but mainly centers on the nuts and bolts of developing and implementing an effective community wide collaborative to address truancy. The first section provides some understanding of the factors associated with truancy and the resulting high costs…
Descriptors: Truancy, Prevention, Cooperative Planning, School Community Relationship
Brown, Franklin C.; Buboltz, Walter C., Jr.; Soper, Barlow – Journal of American College Health, 2006
University students report significantly worse sleep quality than the general population. Sleep problems are related to increased health concerns, irritability, depression, fatigue, and attention and concentration difficulties, along with poor academic performance. Clinical research indicates that psychoeducational interventions are among the most…
Descriptors: Research Design, Depression (Psychology), Sleep, Program Development
Saunders, Jeanne A. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2005
Adolescent pregnancy and parenting remains a pressing social and public health concern because the United States continues to have the highest teen pregnancy rate among Western developed nations and because of the attendant social, psychological, and physical problems for young parents and their children. Prevention efforts to reduce the incidence…
Descriptors: Models, Prevention, Child Rearing, Pregnancy
Lejeune, Genevieve, Ed. – Children Worldwide, 1994
This journal issue is devoted to the many problems faced by children with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) who live in both developing and developed countries. Section 1 provides general information on the pandemic, defining AIDS and exploring the social aspects of the disease. It also addresses child health, child mortality, moral and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Child Health, Children, Developed Nations

Cohen, Shirley; Warren, Rachel D. – Child Welfare, 1990
Presents findings of a World Rehabilitation Fund Fellowship study on the intersection of child abuse, family support, and disability in England. These findings are then compared to the American picture in this arena. Implications for new directions are delineated. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare