title: Schools and homes in partnership (SHIP): long-term effects of a preventive intervention focused on social behavior and reading skill in early elementary school.
abstract: This paper reports a randomized controlled trial of the effects of behavioral parenting skills training, social skills training, and supplemental reading instruction on the social behavior of early elementary school children (K through 3). We selected children based on teacher-rated aggressive behavior or reading-skill deficits, delivered the intervention over a 2-year period, and obtained follow-up data for two additional years. The intervention affected only two of eight measures of child functioning--parent daily reports of antisocial behavior and parent ratings of coercive behavior. There was evidence that parents of boys in the intervention condition displayed significantly greater declines in their rated use of coercive discipline than did parents of boys in the control condition.
authors.affiliation: Center for Community Interventions on Childrearing, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1983, USA. keiths@ori.org
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Smolkowski
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Biglan
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barrera
authors.forename: Ted
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blair
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011932:Reading; D012574:Schools; D012919:Social Behavior