Description:
(Excerpt from Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, 1997, pages 28-29.)
The ATP is a school-based program that focuses on parenting practices and integrates
the universal, selective, and indicated approaches for middle and junior high
school interventions within a comprehensive framework. The universal level of
the ATP strategy, directed to the parents of all students in a school, establishes
a Family Resource Room. The goal, through collaboration with the school staff,
is to engage parents, establish norms for parenting practices, and disseminate
information about risks for problem behavior and substance use. The videotape
"Parenting in the Teenage Years" helps parents identify observable risk
factors and focuses on the use of effective and ineffective family management
skills, including positive reinforcement, monitoring, limit-setting, and relationship
skills to facilitate evaluation of levels and areas of risk.
The selective level of intervention, the Family Check-Up, offers family assessment
and professional support to identify those families at risk for problem behavior
and substance use. The indicated level, the Parent Focus curriculum, provides
direct professional support to parents for making the changes indicated by the
Family Check-Up. Services may include behavioral family therapy, parenting groups,
or case management services. Following this tiered strategy, a family in the indicated
parenting intervention would have participated in a Family Check-up and received
information from the school's Family Resource Room about risk factors for early
substance use and parenting practices that reduce the risk of drug use for their
children.
Populations Found To Be Appropriate For This Practice:
Specific Ethnic Groups Specific Age Levels Other Specified Characteristics
None identified
*Middle School / Junior High
*Special Needs
*Rural
Middle and junior high school youth
Rated Effective By:
*National Institute on Drug Abuse
*Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
For details on the criteria used by each agency, please review the appendix
of the following document:
Comparison Matrix of Science-Based Prevention Programs: A Consumer's Guide for
Prevention Professionals (2001 Conference Edition), Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention.
Evaluating This Practice:
The following are suggestions of areas you may want to assess if you implement
this best practice. For assistance on creating an evaluation plan, refer to Step
7: Evaluation.
Determine whether family management skills were enhanced.
Determine decreases in parental stress.
Research Conclusions:
(Excerpt from Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, 1997, page 29.)
This program is based on a series of intervention trials which comprise the
Parent Focus curriculum and other intervention strategies, including working with
high-risk teens in groups (Teen Focus curriculum) and directed strategies involving
videotapes and newsletters. The findings from these studies indicate that parent
interventions are needed for youth at high risk to reduce escalation of drug use,
and repeated booster sessions are needed throughout the period of risk. These
interventions were especially important because it was found that youth at high
risk should not be places together in groups because it can worsen problem behaviors
including those related to school and drug use.
Cost:
Please inquire of the contact below.
Special Considerations:
Please inquire of the contact below.
Contact Information:
For informational packet or training and materials costs, contact:
Ann Simas
Publications/Editorial
Child and Family Center
University of Oregon
195 West 12th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401-3408
E-mail: asimas@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-1983 Fax: (541) 346-4858
To schedule training, for programmatic or research questions, or for
billable technical assistance contact:
Kate Kavanagh, Ph.D.
Project Alliance
Child and Family Center/UO
2738 NE Broadway
Portland OR 97232
E-mail: katek@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Phone: (503) 282-3662 Fax: (503) 282-3808
For free preview of Adolescent Transitions Video, contact:
Independent Video Services
Phone: (800) 678-3455
Adolescent Transitions Program training is now available from Guilford Press,
Amazon.com, and the University of Oregon Bookstore.
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