Skills Training for Parents and Teens to Improve the Transition to High School

为家长和青少年提供技能培训，以促进向高中过渡

• 批准号: 8128505
• 负责人: W Alex Mason
• 金额: $ 53.26万
• 依托单位: FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8128505
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adoption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Attitude; Child; Conflict (Psychology); Development; Discipline; Distal; Dropout; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Evaluation; Evidence based program; Failure; Family; Frequencies; Guidelines; HIV; Home environment; Intervention; Learning; Lifestyle-related condition; Mediating; Modeling; Monitor; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Performance; Preparation; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Problem behavior; Process; Randomized; Registries; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; Schools; Services; Sex Behavior; Sexual Partners; Social Development; Specific qualifier value; Stress; Student Dropouts; Students; Teenagers; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Youth; adolescent substance use; base; boys; condoms; coping; cost; design; deviant; efficacy testing; efficacy trial; family management; high risk; high risk sexual behavior; high school; high standard; improved; intervention program; meetings; middle school; peer; programs; public health relevance; research and development; selective prevention; skills; skills training; social; therapy design; universal prevention

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Skills Training for Parents and Teens to Improve the Transition to High School This is a proposal to conduct a five-year experimental test of the efficacy of Boys Town's Common Sense Parenting(R) (CSP) program targeted toward a selective sample of 8th-grade students to improve the transition to high school. Both the standard program and a modified version that is supplemented with materials piloted by the Social Development Research Group from the Stepping Up to High School (SUTHS) curriculum will be evaluated. Based on social learning principles, CSP is a widely used parent-training preventive intervention that seeks to improve family management and family interactions, as well as reduce child problem behaviors. Based on the social development model, SUTHS is comprised of two family-focused sessions designed to improve the transition to high school by reducing risks for substance use, delinquency, HIV-related risky sex behavior, and school failure. The move to high school is a critical developmental transition that presents significant challenges to teens and their families, especially among students who are at-risk for school failure. The end of middle school, therefore, provides an important window of opportunity for intervention; however, few prevention programs are tailored to address the transition to high school among students who are demographically at risk for school failure. CSP and CSP+SUTHS represent promising family-based prevention programs for facilitating successful entry into high school. Eligible families will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a standard CSP program condition, a modified CSP plus SUTHS program condition, and a minimal contact control condition. This will provide a rigorous test of the standard CSP curriculum, which currently is being widely disseminated by Boys Town, while also allowing the examination of a modified version that provides potential enhancements for targeting the developmental transition from middle school to high school. Seeking to improve the transition to high school among students at risk for school failure and dropout helps fill a critical programming need and holds promise for reducing the significant costs associated with substance use and related problem behaviors. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Skills Training for Parents and Teens to Improve the Transition to High School This project will test a widely disseminated prevention program, Common Sense Parenting(R), targeted toward a high risk sample of 8th-grade students to improve the transition to high school and reduce substance use and related problem behaviors. The standard program and a modified version that includes materials from the Stepping Up to High School curriculum will be evaluated, comparing the programs against one another and against a control condition. These programs, if effective, have potential for widespread and sustained dissemination through Boys Town, a large and long-standing service organization.

描述（由申请人提供）：针对家长和青少年的技能培训，以促进向高中的过渡 这是一项针对男孩镇常识性育儿 (R) (CSP) 计划的有效性进行为期五年的实验测试的提案，该计划的目标是对八年级学生进行选择性抽样，以改善向高中的过渡。标准计划和修订版本均将接受评估，修订版本补充了社会发展研究小组在高中升学 (SUTHS) 课程中试点的材料。基于社会学习原理，CSP 是一种广泛使用的家长培训预防干预措施，旨在改善家庭管理和家庭互动，并减少儿童问题行为。基于社会发展模型，SUTHS 由两个以家庭为中心的课程组成，旨在通过减少药物使用、犯罪、与艾滋病毒相关的危险性行为和学业失败的风险来改善向高中的过渡。升入高中是一个关键的发展转变，给青少年及其家庭带来了重大挑战，尤其是那些面临学业失败风险的学生。因此，中学结束提供了一个重要的干预机会窗口；然而，很少有预防方案是专门针对那些在人口统计学上面临学业失败风险的学生向高中过渡的问题而制定的。 CSP 和 CSP+SUTHS 代表了有前途的基于家庭的预防计划，有助于顺利进入高中。符合条件的家庭将被随机分配到以下三种条件之一：标准 CSP 计划条件、修改后的 CSP 加 SUTHS 计划条件以及最小接触控制条件。这将为男孩城目前正在广泛传播的标准 CSP 课程提供严格的测试，同时还允许对修改版本进行审查，该版本为针对从初中到高中的发展过渡提供了潜在的增强功能。寻求改善面临学业失败和辍学风险的学生向高中的过渡，有助于满足关键的规划需求，并有望减少与药物使用和相关问题行为相关的重大成本。 公共卫生相关性：针对家长和青少年的技能培训，以促进向高中的过渡 该项目将测试一项广泛传播的预防计划，常识性育儿 (R)，针对 8 年级学生的高风险样本，以改善向高中的过渡高中并减少物质使用和相关问题行为。将评估标准计划和包含高中课程材料的修改版本，将这些计划相互比较并与控制条件进行比较。这些计划如果有效，就有可能通过男孩城这个大型且历史悠久的服务组织进行广泛和持续的传播。