Objective: A group dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program, in which young women critique the thin ideal, reduces eating disorder risk factors and symptoms, but it can be difficult to identify school clinicians with the time and expertise to deliver the intervention. Thus, we developed a prototype Internet version of this program and…

The participating students were provided with membership in a group which had psychological reality, were given some reference facts with which to compare themselves, and were given some intellectual tools by which they might better understand the stresses acting on them. Evaluation of the pilot project was generally favorable. (Author)

Discusses primary prevention of child abuse, child injury, substance abuse with children and adolescents, and school maladjustment. Describes methods of prevention research with children, action approaches to primary prevention, and a school-based divorce intervention program. (MCF)