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Bridging the gap between research and public policy to improve the lives of children.

Youth Violence and Problem Behaviors

Youth Violence

- Fast Track
Fast Track is a multi-site intervention designed to prevent the onset of behavioral and psychological problems in adolescents.

- Girls' Aggression: Development, Context and Process
This research seeks to understand the nature, antecedents, course, and mechanisms of aggression and antisocial behavior in girls.

- GREAT Schools and Families
A national, four-site project evaluating a promising, existing family- and school-based violence-prevention program.

- Deviant Social Contagion
The Duke University Executive Sessions Panel on Deviant Peer Contagion, which assembled six times over a 3-year period to complete a comprehensive analysis of the problem of deviant peer influence during interventions in education, mental health, juvenile justice, and community programs.

- Child Development Project
A longitudinal study investigating children's social development and adjustment by following 585 children from two cohorts recruited in 1987 and 1988 from Tennessee and Indiana.

Problem Behaviors

-ADHD
... Study of College Students' Non-Medical Use and Misuse of ADHD Medicationss - This two-year study examines the prevalence, correlates, causes, and consequences on the misuse and abuse of ADHD medications by college students.

... History of ADHD in a Population-based Sample - This five-year project examines adolescent outcomes of population-based sample of individuals who had been diagnosed with ADHD five to six years earlier.

... Project CLASS- The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of two promising interventions – computerized attention training and computer-assisted instruction for children with attention difficulties.