Society for Prevention Research (SPR)

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http://www.preventionresearch.org

The Society for Prevention Research is an organization dedicated to advancing scientific investigation on the etiology and prevention of social, physical and mental health, and academic problems and on the translation of that information to promote health and well-being.

The multi-disciplinary membership of SPR is international and includes scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers who value the conduct and dissemination of prevention science worldwide.

Meeting the Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining Families in a Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK

Scientific article

Jeremy Segrott, Jo Holliday, Jonathan Scourfield, David Foxcroft, Simon Murphy Introduction: Trials of family-based prevention interventions often face challenges in recruitment and retention, leading to methodological issues. However...

Nurturing a Program to Maturity before Taking It to Scale

Scientific article

Joan E. Durrant, Dominique Pierre Plateau In 2015, the United Nations set out a new sustainable development agenda based on human rights standards. One of its 17 goals is to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. An indicator...

Going to Scale with Parent Training in Norway: What Have We Found and Where Should We Go?

Scientific article

John Kjøbli To scale up evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of child conduct problems in primary care settings, the program Early Initiatives for Children at Risk (Norwegian acronym; TIBIR) was developed. The...

Lessons Learnt from Scaling-up a Parenting Programme during Its Research Phase

Scientific article

Jenny Doubt Background: There is an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing and reducing violence in our societies. Children in developing countries experience higher levels of abuse, and less than 12% of abused children receive...

Putting the Horse before the Cart? Negotiating Tensions Between the Need for Evidence and the Demand for Dissemination of Parenting Programmes to Reduce Violence Against Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Scientific article

Jamie Lachman, Jenny Doubt, Heidi Loening-Voysey Objectives: Parenting programmes have shown promise in preventing violence against children, as well as improving child and parental outcomes. Accordingly, there is an increased demand for...

Families Preparing a New Generation: Adaption of a Parent-Adolescent Substance Use Intervention for Burmese Refugee Families

Scientific article

Craig Nagoshi, Julie L. Nagoshi, Eusebius Small, Flavio F. Marsiglia Introduction: The overall goal of the proposed research project was to implement an adaptation of the established Families Preparing a New Generation (FPNG) substance use...

UNODC-Lcif Case Control Trials of Lionsquest Skills for Adolescence in South East Europe: Research Results and Policy Implications

Scientific article

Wadih E. Maalouf, Milos Stojanovic, Matthew Kiefer, Giovanna Campello, Hanna E. Heikkila, Ziad El Khatib UNODC has an ongoing global initiative promoting evidence based prevention programmes in line with the UNODC International Standards on...

Society for Prevention Research (SPR)

Meeting the Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining Families in a Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK

Nurturing a Program to Maturity before Taking It to Scale

Going to Scale with Parent Training in Norway: What Have We Found and Where Should We Go?

Lessons Learnt from Scaling-up a Parenting Programme during Its Research Phase

Putting the Horse before the Cart? Negotiating Tensions Between the Need for Evidence and the Demand for Dissemination of Parenting Programmes to Reduce Violence Against Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Families Preparing a New Generation: Adaption of a Parent-Adolescent Substance Use Intervention for Burmese Refugee Families

UNODC-Lcif Case Control Trials of Lionsquest Skills for Adolescence in South East Europe: Research Results and Policy Implications

Using Tableau Technology to Share Risk and Protective Factor Data with Local Communities for Prevention Planning

Does School Climate Mean the Same Thing in the U.S. as in Mexico?

Improving the Measurement of School Climate

Society for Prevention Research (SPR)

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