PREVENTING SCHOOL FAILURE, DRUG USE, AND DELINQUENCY AMONG LOW-INCOME CHILDREN: Long-Term Intervention in Elementary Schools

A six-year, school-based prevention program, which modified classroom teacher practices, offered parent training, and provided child social skills training, was evaluated for its effects on school failure, drug abuse, and delinquency among low-income urban children. Compared to a low-income control...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1995-01, Vol.65 (1), p.87-100
Main Authors: O'Donnell, Julie, Hawkins, J. David, Catalano, Richard F, Abbott, Robert D, Day, L. Edward
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Failure
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Development
Children
Children & youth
Combined Modality Therapy
Delinquency
Deviant behaviour
Drug Abuse
Drug Use
Educational Attainment
Educational Status
Elementary School Students
Elementary Schools
Female
Followup Studies
Gender Identity
Human
Humans
Internal-External Control
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency - prevention & control
Juvenile Delinquency - psychology
Learning Disorders - prevention & control
Learning Disorders - psychology
Long-Term Care
Low income
Low Income Groups
Lower Income Level
Mainstreaming (Education)
Male
Medical sciences
Mental health
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Patient Care Team
Poverty
Poverty - psychology
Prevention
Prevention. Health policy. Planification
Preventive programmes
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reinforcement (Psychology)
School failure
Seattle
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Social research
Socialization
Students
Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Urban Environments
Urban Population
Urban society
USA
Washington
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Summary:A six-year, school-based prevention program, which modified classroom teacher practices, offered parent training, and provided child social skills training, was evaluated for its effects on school failure, drug abuse, and delinquency among low-income urban children. Compared to a low-income control group, children in the intervention group showed enhanced school commitment and class participation. The girls in the group also evidenced lower rates of substance use initiation, while the boys exhibited increased social and school work skills.
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1037/h0079598