Preventing school failure, drug use, and delinquency among low-income children: long-term intervention in elementary schools

Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1995 Jan;65(1):87-100. doi: 10.1037/h0079598.

Abstract

A six-year, school-based prevention program, which modified classroom teacher practices, offered parent training, and provided child social skills training, was evaluated for its effects on school failure, drug abuse, and delinquency among low-income urban children. Compared to a low-income control group, children in the intervention group showed enhanced school commitment and class participation. The girls in the group also evidenced lower rates of substance use initiation, while the boys exhibited increased social and school work skills.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Educational Status
  • Female
  • Gender Identity
  • Humans
  • Internal-External Control
  • Juvenile Delinquency / prevention & control*
  • Juvenile Delinquency / psychology
  • Learning Disabilities / prevention & control*
  • Learning Disabilities / psychology
  • Long-Term Care
  • Mainstreaming, Education*
  • Male
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Patient Care Team
  • Poverty* / psychology
  • Reinforcement, Psychology
  • Socialization
  • Substance-Related Disorders / prevention & control*
  • Substance-Related Disorders / psychology
  • Urban Population
  • Washington