title: The Coping Power program at the middle-school transition: universal and indicated prevention effects.
abstract: This study evaluates the effects of an indicated preventive intervention and a universal preventive intervention. Children were identified as being at risk on the basis of 4th-grade teachers' ratings of children's aggressive and disruptive behaviors, and interventions were delivered during the 5th- and 6th-grade years. Children were randomly assigned to the Coping Power intervention, the universal intervention, the combined Coping Power plus universal intervention, or a control condition. The Coping Power program included child and parent components. Results indicated that all 3 intervention cells produced relatively lower rates of substance use at postintervention than did the control cell. The interventions also produced effects on 3 of the 4 predictor variable domains: children's social competence and self-regulation and parents' parenting skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 35487, USA.
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lochman
authors.forename: Karen C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Wells
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*