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Mayer, Matthew J., Ed.; Jimerson, Shane R., Ed. – APA Books, 2018
This timely book presents a data-driven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. As school violence receives increasing attention across the nation, the application of scientific knowledge is critical. For maximum effectiveness, transdisciplinary teams should use school data, logic models, and theories of change to design,…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Prevention, Ecological Factors
Fraser, Mark W.; Richman, Jack M.; Galinsky, Maeda J.; Day, Steven H. – Oxford University Press, 2009
When social workers draw on experience, theory, or data in order to develop new strategies or enhance existing ones, they are conducting intervention research. This relatively new field involves program design, implementation, and evaluation and requires a theory-based, systematic approach. "Intervention Research" presents such a…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Program Design, Intervention
Tindall, Judith A. – 1995
The goal of this book is to provide a program designed to teach peer helping professionals a method and rationale for training peer helpers. Peer helping programs are a major delivery system of affective education or deliberate psychological education. Peer helping programs can provide prevention, intervention, and support systems for people.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Educational Change
Dorman, Rebekah L.; Moore, Douglas J.; Schaerfl, Caroline A. – 1999
Preventing child abuse is an endeavor that requires equal parts of caring, optimism, and pragmatism. Drawing on the experiences of more than 100 child abuse prevention projects, this field-tested manual integrates the abstract principles of program development and prevention with the real world experiences and challenges faced by prevention…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Children