Efficacy of the RECAP intervention program for children with concurrent internalizing and externalizing problems.
The authors evaluated the efficacy of RECAP, a psychosocial intervention developed to treat concurrent internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Participants included 93 4th-grade children assigned to the treatment group or a no-treatment control group. The school-based program, which lasts the 9-month academic year, provides individual, group, classroom, teacher, and parent training in the RECAP skills-development curriculum, which was derived from empirically supported treatment programs for nonconcurrent internalizing and externalizing problems. Outcome assessments included parent-, teacher-, self-, and peer reports. A mixed hierarchical linear models analysis indicated that, overall, treatment children's rate of improvement in both internalizing and externalizing problems was significantly greater than that for control participants.
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Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA. bahr.weiss@vanderbilt.edu
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Vicki
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Catron
Thomas
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Han
Susan S
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D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012572:School Health Services; D016896:Treatment Outcome