... Evaluation Research–practice gap Evidence-based interventions Prevention Program maturity Children CDC = Center for Disease Control; and TOC = Theory of Change. The research practice gap has been extensively described and debated in health, education and social service...

...Susan Rayment-McHugh; Dimity Adams; Nadine McKillop Purpose Intervention for young people engaging in harmful sexual behaviour has been largely based on individual-level conceptualisations and assessment. Prevention efforts reflect this individual-focus, relying primarily on offender management...

... O’Connor can be contacted at: siobhan.oconnor.2015@mumail.ie 30 04 2020 21 11 2020 25 11 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Prevention Dissemination Intervention Translation Parenting KT...

... prevention activities described in the literature. Yvonne Rafferty can be contacted at: yrafferty.emeritus@pace.edu 09 07 2020 10 09 2020 10 09 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Prevention Identification...

... is most evident, in the family, working with the child and the parents/caregivers. Originality/value This is an original paper which draws on different research about children witnessing domestic violence. Risk factors Prevention Treatment Systematic review Consequences Witnessing domestic...

... and cognitive dimensions. A test-retest correlation confirmed the reliability of the Ni3: VRA over time. Affective responsiveness formed a significant positive association with caring/cooperative behavior. Originality/value The Ni3: VRA can be used for the evaluation of preventive strategies aimed...

... delivery in rural and regional communities of NSW, Australia. Australia Child protection Qualitative methods Prevention Nursing Early intervention Child and family health Rural nursing Universal child health service Parenting programmes In Australia, child and family health (CAFH...

.... Practical implications Information about estimated current and future risk may prove useful for motivating the adoption and implementation of effective prevention approaches by parents and care providers. Originality/value The authors present a novel method for estimating an individual’s risk...

...Dr Tracey Bywater; Nick Axford; David P. Farrington; Suzy Clarkson; Gretchen J. Bjornstad; Zoe Wrigley; Judy Hutchings Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how and why school-based programmes to prevent or reduce bullying involve parents, and what impact involving parents has...

... style. Teachers voted for the inclusion of a mandatory half-day teacher training session in the programme. Originality/value – The primary prevention of problematic media use is a neglected issue. This is despite the fact that ever younger age groups spend increasing portions of their time...

...Kevin P. Haggerty; Anne McGlynn-Wright; Tali Klima Purpose – Adolescent problem behaviours (substance use, delinquency, school dropout, pregnancy, and violence) are costly not only for individuals, but for entire communities. Policy makers and practitioners that are interested in preventing...

...Mark Stemmler; Charlotte Kötter; Anneke Bühler; Stefanie Jaursch; Andreas Beelmann; Friedrich Lösel Purpose The purpose of this article is to evaluate the prevention programme EFFEKT‐E that was designed for preschool children of depressive mothers and contains an intervention for children...

... SES risk factors may not come forward to participate in face‐to‐face mental health promotion interventions even if the parenting intervention is offered in a non‐stigmatising way. Originality/value By offering a universal health promoting and preventive parent training service in the community...

... of prevention and early intervention for children but also to get that cause supported by all political parties. Graham Allen is Labour MP for Nottingham North and Iain Duncan Smith the Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green, and former leader of his Party. On the face of it, they make unlikely...

...Anne Edwards This article focuses on the conditions that are conducive to effective work on reducing children's vulnerability to social exclusion. It draws on three studies of practitioners who are collaborating to prevent the social exclusion of children and young people. Two ideas are discussed...

... be institutionalised; however, there are a number of barriers to translating what we know from science to what we do in practice. In the present article, we discuss a number of those barriers, including: cultural differences between those who espouse a public health, prevention science approach versus those who...

... research can help build good childhoods in western developed countries, focusing on: the need for epidemiology to understand how to match services to needs; how research can build evidence of the impact of prevention and intervention services on child well‐being; what the evidence says about how...

... equally likely to succeed in changing their parenting practices. These findings suggest the robustness of intervention effects across a diverse range of parents. Key words parent training; prevention; conduct problems; mediation; moderation Introduction Behavioural family intervention (BFI) based...

...Jane Barlow; Doug Simkiss; Sarah Stewart‐Brown The aim of this article is to summarise the available evidence from systematic reviews about the effectiveness of interventions to prevent or treat child physical abuse and neglect. A computerised search was undertaken of major electronic databases up...

...; human capital; early childhood; prevention The economic arguments for early child investment Human capital1 is a central concept to labour economists and accordingly a large amount of research has been developed to measure the returns to human capital. Most of this research has focused on the cognitive...