title: Preventing Child Behavior Problems and Substance Use: The Pathways Home Foster Care Reunification Intervention.
abstract: This paper evaluated the Pathways Home manualized selective preventive intervention designed to prevent reunification failures once children are returned home to their biological parent(s) after first time stays in foster care (n= 101). The theoretically based intervention focused on support and parent management practices designed to prevent the development of child behavior problems including internalizing and externalizing problems, and substance use. Intent to treat analyses employed probability growth curve approaches for repeated telephone assessments over 16 weeks of intervention. Findings showed that relative to services as usual reunification families, the Pathways Home families demonstrated better parenting strategies that were in turn associated with reductions in problem behaviors over time. Growth in problem behaviors in turn predicted foster care re-entry. Maternal substance use cravings were a risk factor for growth in problem behaviors that were buffered by participation in the Pathways Home intervention.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Social Learning Center.
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Degarmo
authors.forename: John B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: Becky A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Fetrow
authors.forename: Philip A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Karla D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Antoine
keywords: foster care; parenting; prevention; reunification; substance use
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