Adult
& Family Development Project |
| The goal of this project is to
understand the intergenerational transmission of risk
for alcoholism and drug abuse/dependence. [more...] |
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Bridges to High School Project:
Puentes a la
Secundaria: Bridges |
| The
Bridges to High School Project (Bridges / Puentes) is
a multi-cohort, experimental field trial of a culturally
competent intervention to prevent school dropout and mental
health disorders for low-income Mexican American adolescents. [more...] |
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Children of Unemployed Parents Study:
CUPS |
| This
collaborative research project is the next step in a coordinated
program of research on the prevention of emotional and behavioral
disorders in children and families experiencing job loss. [more...] |
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Contextual Factors Study |
| This
pilot study was designed to provide a data set for the development
of new measures to assess acculturative status (i.e., degree
of acculturation and enculturation on specific dimensions of
beliefs) and context
(i.e., parent and child reports of neighborhood quality with separate measures for reports of objective characteristics of the neighborhood, such as amount of graffiti, and reports of subjective feelings about the quality of the area, such as fear of crime).
[more...] |
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Dads
for Life |
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Dads for Life project (5RO1MHH51184) evaluates an intervention
designed to prevent children's post-divorce mental health problems
by targeting noncustodial fathers.
We take the perspective that all divorced fathers can benefit their children's well-being, whatever their custody arrangements.
[more...] |
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Effects and Meaning of Fathers for
Adolescents Parents and Youth Study: PAYS |
| Three
researchers from Arizona State University are teaming up with
two UC Riverside researchers to study how fathers and stepfathers
influence the mental health and behavior of teenagers. The five-year comprehensive longitudinal research will be funded with a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. [more...] |
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Family Bereavement Program: FBP |
| This
grant was funded to conduct an experimental trial of a theoretically
based preventive intervention for bereaved children and their
surviving caretaker (NIMH R01-MH49155). The
program includes 12 group and 2 individual sessions to build coping skills and coping efficacy for children and adolescents and 12 group and 2 individual sessions to build and support effective parenting during grief.
[more...] |
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Family Bereavement Program Follow-up: |
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current project is a federally funded NIMH (R01 MH49155) six
year follow-up of 244 adolescents/young adults and their caregivers
who participated in an experimental evaluation of a preventive
intervention program for families who have experienced parental death.
[more...] |
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New
Beginnings Follow-up Children of Divorce: A Six-Year Follow-up
of Preventive Efforts |
| This
RO1 supported a six-year follow-up of the effects of the two
preventive interventions for children of divorce, a mother program
and a dual-component program, relative to the literature control
condition. [more...] |
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Parenting Young Children
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The Parenting Young Children (PYC) Project is a research study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to develop and evaluate strategies for increasing parenting program participation. [more...] |
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Pathways to Desistance
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This project involves a longitudinal study of serious
juvenile offenders and attempts to identify predictors
of desistance. [more...] |
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Proyecto: La Familia
(The Family Project) |
| This
project involves a longitudinal study of 700 Mexican American
families that will examine the interactions among individual,
family, school, and community influences on development. [more...] |
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Osborn Community Assessment
Project: OCAP |
| This community-University
partnership was a collaborative effort between several
ASU faculty and the administration and teachers of an
inner-city school District. The goals were to identify
strengths and weaknesses within the school system that
contributed to children’s academic achievement and
school behavior. [more...] |
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Social Psychological Factors in Teen and Adult Smoking
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This longitudinal study follows a community sample of
midwestern adults and their children to chart trajectories
of cigarette smoking, predictors of smoking transitions,
and pathways underlying the intergenerational transmission
of smoking behavior.
[more...] |
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Together Raising Successful
Teens: Juntos |
| This project is funded by
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(R01 HD39666) to learn about the successes and challenges
of Mexican American families raising teenagers. [more...] |
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