Hawkins, Week 1 - PowerPoint Presentation

• The mental health intervention spectrum
• Alternative strategies for prevention
• The preventive intervention research cycle
• Epidemiology and life course development
• Prediction and etiology

Hawkins, Week 2 - PowerPoint Presentation

• Individual (microbiological, genetic, neurological, psychological), interpersonal (meso-family, school, peer group, neighborhood), and sociocultural/structural (macro) predictors.
• Mediation and moderation.
• Resilience, promotion, protection and risk.

Hawkins, Week 3 - PowerPoint Presentation

• Using theories of eitiology to guide preventive intervention.
• Addressing ethnic and gender issues in prevention research.

Hawkins, Week 4 - PowerPoint Presentation

• Tracking incidence and prevalence over development.
• Reducing incidence and prevalence as goals of preventive intervention.
• Randomization and matching in prevention trials.
• Testing theory through prevention trials.

Ric Brown, Week 5 - PowerPoint Presentation

• Measurement issues.
• Unit of analysis.
• Heterogeneity of effects in different subgroups.
• Attrition and missing data.
• Assessing intervention effects on developmental change.

Susan Spieker, Week 6

Hawkins, Week 6

• Pre and perinatal medical care.
• Intensive health education for mothers.
• Home visiting programs.
• Immunizations.
• Family focused interventions.
• Center based early childhood education programs.
• Cognitive and social/emotional competence promotion.

Hawkins, Week 7

• School-based approaches: school restructuring and social climate change; classroom organization, management and instruction; curricular approaches; and behavior management aproaches.
• Family focused approaches.
• Prevention science and positive youth development.

Hawkins, Week 8-1

Hawkins, Week 8-2

McMahon - FastTrack

• Combining universal, selective and indicated school and family focused interventions.
• Understanding mechanisms of effective preventive interventions - mediated effects.
• Using theory to guide complex multi-component interventions.
• Implementing and sustaining effective preventive interventions at the community level.
• Research designs for community interventions.
• Effects of community level intervention.

• School-based approaches
• Mentoring
• Family focused interventions.
• After-school opportunities.
• Harm reduction.
• Effects beyond targeted outcomes.
• Cost-benefit analysis and public policy.

• Laws and policies as preventive interventions.
• Using research on diffusion of innovation to guide dissmination.
• Dissemination of programs or principles?
• Policy and the dissemination of tested and effective preventive interventions.