Adolescents

Away from Home and Out of School

A follow-on to the study "Community Characteristics and Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls" to determine whether a relationship exists between individuals' interactions with their environments away from home and their total physical activity and body mass index. Contact: Deborah Cohen, MD, MPH

Brief Substance Use Intervention for Youth in Teen Court

Adapting and testing an efficacious group intervention among teens who have committed a first-time alcohol or other drug misdemeanor, with the goal of reducing alcohol and drug use and related consequences. Contact: Elizabeth D'Amico, PhD

Brief Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Intervention for Middle School Youth

Five-year longitudinal study to conduct a more rigorous test of Project CHOICE, the only voluntary intervention tested for middle school youth, in a larger, ethnically diverse school population. Contact: Elizabeth D'Amico, PhD

CBITS: Aiding Students Exposed to Violence

Ongoing work with the Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), including a national expansion in conjunction with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Contact: Lisa Jaycox, PhD

Classroom Drug Prevention

An evaluation of the long-term results from ALERT Plus, a combined middle school and high school drug-prevention curriculum that aims to sustain the positive effects of Project ALERT, currently used in middle schools. Contact: Phyllis Ellickson, PhD

Drug Use, Social Context, and HIV Risk in Homeless Youth

A multifaceted approach to better understand the social context of sexual behaviors and drug use among homeless youth, with the goal of informing intervention efforts aimed at reducing the spread of HIV in this growing population. Contact: Joan Tucker, PhD

Enhancing Prevention Capacity with Developmental Assets and Getting To Outcomes

This five-year project uses a community-based participatory research model to assess a combination of two "best practice" programs designed to prevent drug and alcohol use among youth. Contact: Matthew Chinman, PhD

Friendship Networks and Youth Smoking

A study using social network analysis, applied to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, to investigate how friendship networks are related to patterns of youth smoking over time. Contact: Joan Tucker, PhD

Long-Term Effects of a Work-Site Parenting Program

A continuation of the evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a work-site-based parenting program to help parents improve their communication with their teens and promote healthy sexual development and risk reduction. Contact: David Kanouse, PhD

Mental Health and Well-Being of Adolescent Children of Cambodian Refugees

A systematic investigation, including interviews of 350 California 10th graders, of the mental health and well-being of U.S.-born children of Cambodian refugees. Contact: Grant Marshall, PhD

Modeling the Effect of Cigarette Advertising on Adolescent Smoking

A randomized controlled laboratory experiment that manipulates the exposure of never-smoking middle school adolescents to cigarette advertising to model the mediating and moderating processes that underlie the observed association between cigarette advertising/marketing and adolescent smoking. Contact: William Shadel, PhD