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Ungar, Michael; Liebenberg, Linda – School Psychology International, 2013
In this article we examine how cultural and community factors interact with individual level factors to predict school participation. Participants were 497 Atlantic Canadian youth purposefully selected because of their concurrent use of more than one government service or community program at the time they were interviewed. Results revealed that…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Learner Engagement, Ethnicity, Cultural Background
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Foran, Heather M.; Heyman, Richard E.; Slep, Amy M. Smith – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2011
Objective: Hazardous drinking is a serious societal concern in military populations. Efforts to reduce hazardous drinking among military personnel have been limited in effectiveness. There is a need for a deeper understanding of how community-based prevention models apply to hazardous drinking in the military. Community-wide prevention efforts may…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Prevention, Military Personnel, Drinking
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McWhirter, Paula T. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Two community-based group therapies, emotion focused versus goal oriented, are compared among women exposed to intimate partner violence (n = 46) and their children (n = 48) aged between 6 and 12 years. A series of repeated measures analyses are employed to evaluate the effects of time from baseline to postintervention following random assignment.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Violence, Females, Drinking