Malin Anniko, Maria Tillfors
Introduction: Stress and stress-related problems such as symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress and worry is a widespread and growing problem amongst Swedish adolescents, especially girls. Similar trends...
Deinera Exner-Cortens, David A Wolfe, J. Bruce Morton, Claire V Crooks
Introduction: Promoting healthy relationships is increasingly recognized as key to violence prevention; however, evaluation of healthy relationships programs for...
Deinera Exner-Cortens, Debb Hurlock, Pam Krause
Introduction: A large body of research demonstrates that adolescence is a key period for promoting healthy relationship skills as part of efforts to prevent bullying and dating violence...
Serena Bauducco, Ida Flink, Steven Linton
Introduction: Growing evidence shows that adolescents are at risk for sleep deprivation, which has serious consequences on adolescents´ functioning, including emotional and physical health, and...
Ietza Bojorquez, Rosa M Aguilera-Guzman, Adrian Aguilera, Silvia Mejia
Introduction: Deportations of Mexican migrants who had been living in the United States for extended periods of time increased during the past decade. As an event of...
Tobias H. Elgan, Anna K Strandberg, Johanna Gripenberg
Introduction: Depending on how the problem is defined, between 5-20% of all Swedish children grow up with parents having substance use and/or mental health problems, which puts the...
Johanna Gripenberg, Tobias Elgán, Sven Andréasson
Introduction: In 1996, an alcohol prevention program in Responsible Beverage Service (RBS) targeting licensed premises was initiated by STAD (Stockholm Prevents Alcohol and Drug Problems)...
Olivier Gaudet, Justin Vollet, Marie-Helene Veronneau, Thomas Kindermann, Cécile Mathys
Introduction: Self-esteem influences youth’s mental and physical health (Tzesniewski et al., 2006) and is central to adolescent development. During...
Kannikar Nolrajsuwat
Introduction: The Thailand culturally adapted version of the Strengthening Families Program (12-16) was evaluated for high risk 12 to 17-year-olds. After the success of the SFP 6-11 in Thailand, the Thailand juvenile...
Anilena Mejia Lynch
Introduction: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has invested widely in the dissemination and implementation of the Strengthening Families Program 10-14 (SFP 10-14) in Central America. SFP 10-14 is a family...
Carmen Orte
Introduction: The Family Competence Program (FCP) for 12 to 16-year-old teenagers is the Spanish adaptation of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) (Kumpfer & DeMarsh, 1985). This EBI consisted of 14 sessions that target...
Ha Yeon Kim, Lindsay Brown
Introduction: The world currently faces the largest refugee crisis since WWII[1]. Lebanon alone, a nation of approximately 4 million citizens, is sheltering over 1 million registered Syrian refugees. The...
Marie-Helene Veronneau, Lisa Serbin, Kathleen Kennedy-Turner, Dale M. Stack, Alex Schwartzman, Jane Ledingham
Introduction: Educational attainment predicts health and well-being throughout the lifespan. Although educational attainment is...
Katholiki Georgiades, Anna Kata, Laura Duncan, Michael Boyle
Introduction: Reducing inequalities in child mental health constitutes an important public health priority in Canada, and schools represent an ideal context for effective...
Louis D Brown, Rebecca Wells, Alexia A. Wilson, Sarah Meyer Chilenski
Introduction: Illegal drug use rose 87% from 2002 to 2011 in Mexico. To help address this problem, 19 substance use prevention coalitions were organized across Mexico...
Rainier Masa, Gina Chowa
Background: Despite high level of knowledge about condoms, condom use remains low among sexually active youth globally, including Ghana. Although interventions that promote condom use have been implemented, few...
Preventive guidelines are integrated by six booklets of work, descriptive letters and procedures, whose activities and strategies are aimed at developing skills and specific skills in each age group.
Alcohol use, particularly binge drinking (BD), is a major public health concern among adolescents. Recent national data show that the gender gap in alcohol use is lessening, and BD among girls is rising. Considering the increase in BD among...
Rainier Masa, Gina Chowa
Introduction: The intersection of poverty and HIV/AIDS creates a cycle, with poverty increasing risk to HIV exposure and infection, and HIV/AIDS in turn heightening vulnerability to poverty. Further, economic...