Initial Impact of the Fast Track Prevention Trial for Conduct Problems: I. The High-Risk Sample
JOURNAL ABSTRACT Fast Track is a multisite, multicomponent preventive intervention for young children at high risk for long-term antisocial behavior. Based on a comprehensive developmental model, intervention included a universal-level classroom program plus social skills training, academic tutoring, parent training, and home visiting to improve competencies and reduce problems in a high-risk group of children selected in kindergarten. At the end of Grade 1, there were moderate positive effects on children's social, emotional, and academic skills; peer interactions and social status; and conduct problems and special-education use. Parents reported less physical discipline and greater parenting satisfaction/ease of parenting and engaged in more appropriate/consistent discipline, warmth/positive involvement, and involvement with the school. Evidence of differential intervention effects across child gender, race, site, and cohort was minimal. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by the American Psychological Association) For more information on the FAST Track (Families and Schools Together) Project, a Blueprints for Violence Prevention Promising Program, see VioPro record number 307. Washington Tennessee Pennsylvania North Carolina School Achievement School Failure School Achievement School Adjustment School Based Youth Development Child Development Elementary School Student Grade 1 At Risk Child At Risk Juvenile At Risk Youth Middle Childhood Social Skills Development Friendship Skills Communication Skills Prosocial Skills Child Antisocial Child Problem Behavior Child Behavior Behavior Prevention Behavior Intervention Intervention Program Prevention Program Program Effectiveness Program Evaluation Blueprints Promising Reference 11-04