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Long-term impact of prevention programs to promote effective parenting: lasting effects but uncertain processesIrwin N Sandler
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 6005, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 62:299-329. 2011....
Fostering resilience in families in which a parent has diedIrwin N Sandler
Family Bereavement Program, Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 852878-6005, USA
J Palliat Med 5:945-56. 2002- Resilience in parentally bereaved children and adolescents seeking preventive servicesKirk K Lin
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:673-83. 2004..The findings are consistent with a model of resilience in which multilevel variables account for children's positive adaptation following exposure to adversity... - Symptoms of internalizing and externalizing problems: modeling recovery curves after the death of a parentSarah J Schmiege
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:S152-60. 2006..The death of a parent is a major family disruption that can place children at risk for later depression and other mental health problems... - Collaboration of prevention science and the family courtIrwin N Sandler
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 39:291-300. 2012.... - Six-year follow-up of a preventive intervention for parentally bereaved youths: a randomized controlled trialIrwin Sandler
Department of Psychology and Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 6005, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:907-14. 2010..To evaluate the efficacy of the Family Bereavement Program (FBP) to prevent mental health problems in parentally bereaved youths and their parents 6 years later... - Long-term effects of the family bereavement program on multiple indicators of grief in parentally bereaved children and adolescentsIrwin N Sandler
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 6005, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 78:131-43. 2010..This article reports on results from a randomized experimental trial of the effects of the Family Bereavement Program (FBP) on multiple measures of grief experienced by parentally bereaved children and adolescents over a 6-year period... - Coping and negative appraisal as mediators between control beliefs and psychological symptoms in children of divorceI N Sandler
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1108, USA
J Clin Child Psychol 29:336-47. 2000..Implications and directions for further research are discussed... - Developing effective prevention services for the real world: a prevention service development modelIrwin Sandler
Arizona State University, USA
Am J Community Psychol 35:127-42. 2005..Questions that are posed at each stage of the PSDM are described. Studies from the development of two preventive interventions are presented to illustrate research at several of the stages of the model... - Bridging the gap between research and practice in bereavement: report from the Center for the Advancement of HealthIrwin Sandler
Prevention Research Center, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Death Stud 29:93-122. 2005..Finally recommendations are made for practitioners, researchers, and organizations to take steps toward more thoroughly integrating bereavement research and practice for the advancement of both... - Coping efficacy and psychological problems of children of divorceI N Sandler
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
Child Dev 71:1099-118. 2000..No support was found for alternative models of coping as a mediator of the relations between efficacy and symptoms or for coping efficacy as a moderator of the relations between coping and symptoms... - The family bereavement program: efficacy evaluation of a theory-based prevention program for parentally bereaved children and adolescentsIrwin N Sandler
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:587-600. 2003..At follow-up, the FBP led to reduced internalizing and externalizing problems, but only for girls and those who had higher problem scores at baseline... 
Mother-child relationship quality and effective discipline as mediators of the 6-year effects of the New Beginnings Program for children from divorced familiesQing Zhou
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 76:579-94. 2008..The discussion focuses on the implications of the mediation findings for advancing the developmental theories that informed the design of the NBP and the implications for implementation of the NBP in community settings...- Implications of parental suicide and violent death for promotion of resilience of parentally-bereaved childrenAna C Brown
Prevention Research Center, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Death Stud 31:301-35. 2007..It is concluded that cause of death from violence or suicide is not a very useful indicator of bereaved children's need for or likelihood of benefiting from an intervention... - Positive parenting as a mediator of the relations between parental psychological distress and mental health problems of parentally bereaved childrenOi-man Kwok
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 34:260-71. 2005..Implications for understanding the development of mental health problems of parentally bereaved children are discussed... - Positive parenting as a protective resource for parentally bereaved childrenRachel A Haine
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Death Stud 30:1-28. 2006..Implications for the understanding of children's responses to the death of a parent and the development and implementation of preventive interventions are discussed... - Cortisol levels six-years after participation in the Family Bereavement ProgramLinda J Luecken
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:785-9. 2010..Results suggest that a family-focused intervention for parentally bereaved youth may have prevented the development of attenuated cortisol secretion suggestive of dysregulation and associated with externalizing problems... - Promoting resilience in youth from divorced families: lessons learned from experimental trials of the New Beginnings ProgramSharlene A Wolchik
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, P O Box 876005, Tempe, AZ 85287 6005, USA
J Pers 77:1833-68. 2009..The final section describes directions for future research on the NBP... - Quality of social relationships and the development of depression in parentally-bereaved youthErin N Schoenfelder
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, 900 S McAllister St, Rm 205 Tempe, Phoenix, AZ 85287 6005, USA
J Youth Adolesc 40:85-96. 2011..Implications of these findings for understanding the development of mental health problems following parental bereavement are discussed... - Prospective effects of post-bereavement negative events on cortisol activity in parentally bereaved youthMelissa J Hagan
Program for Prevention Research, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Dev Psychobiol 52:394-400. 2010..Results suggest that higher exposure to stressful events following childhood parental loss may result in long-term attenuated cortisol activity... - Locus of control and self-esteem as stress-moderators or stress-mediators in parentally bereaved childrenRachel A Haine
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Death Stud 27:619-40. 2003..Implications for understanding parentally bereaved children's mental health problems and for developing preventive interventions are discussed... - Six-year follow-up of preventive interventions for children of divorce: a randomized controlled trialSharlene A Wolchik
Department of Psychology, Program for Prevention Research, Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, PO Box 876005, Tempe, AZ 85287 6005, USA
JAMA 288:1874-81. 2002..The long-term effects of intervention programs for this population are unknown... - Positive parenting during childhood moderates the impact of recent negative events on cortisol activity in parentally bereaved youthMelissa J Hagan
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 214:231-8. 2011..Identifying risk and protective factors that influence physiological regulation has important implications for understanding the development of mental health problems in parentally bereaved youth... - Fear of abandonment as a mediator of the relations between divorce stressors and mother-child relationship quality and children's adjustment problemsSharlene A Wolchik
Program for Prevention Research, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 1104, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:401-18. 2002..Implications of these results for understanding variability in children's postdivorce adjustment problems and interventions for divorced families are discussed... - Developmental cascade effects of the New Beginnings Program on adolescent adaptation outcomesDarya Bonds McClain
Prevention Research Center, Psychology North, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 6005, USA
Dev Psychopathol 22:771-84. 2010..There were no significant differences in the model based on level of baseline risk or adolescent gender. These results provide support for a cascading pathways model of child and adolescent development... - Putting the pieces together: an integrated model of program implementationCady Berkel
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Prev Sci 12:23-33. 2011..We then propose a theoretical model by which facilitator and participant dimensions of implementation influence participant outcomes. Finally, we provide recommendations and directions for future implementation research... - Six-year longitudinal predictors of posttraumatic growth in parentally bereaved adolescents and young adultsSharlene A Wolchik
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287 6005, USA
Omega (Westport) 58:107-28. 2008..The implications of these findings for research and clinical practice are discussed... - Parentally bereaved children's grief: self-system beliefs as mediators of the relations between grief and stressors and caregiver-child relationship qualitySharlene A Wolchik
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, P O Box 876005, Tempe, AZ 85287 6005, USA
Death Stud 32:597-620. 2008..Fear of abandonment showed a marginal prospective mediational relation between stressors and intrusive grief thoughts. After excluding the mediators, relationship quality showed a direct prospective relation to intrusive grief thoughts... - Stressors, quality of the child-caregiver relationship, and children's mental health problems after parental death: the mediating role of self-system beliefsSharlene A Wolchik
Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 34:221-38. 2006..Implications of these findings for understanding the development of mental health problems in parentally bereaved children and designing interventions for this at-risk group are discussed... - Mediation of the effects of the family bereavement program on mental health problems of bereaved children and adolescentsJenn Yun Tein
Department of Psychology, Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Prev Sci 7:179-95. 2006..The discussion focuses on theoretical explanations for the mediational effects and on implications for identifying "core components" of the FBP that are responsible for its effects to reduce mental health problems of girls... - Positive events as a stress buffer for children and adolescents in families in transitionKathryn Wilcox Doyle
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 32:536-45. 2003..These findings have implications for theory and intervention development... - Risk as a moderator of the effects of prevention programs for children from divorced families: a six-year longitudinal studySpring R Dawson-McClure
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 6005, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:175-90. 2004.... - Control beliefs as a mediator of the relation between stress and depressive symptoms among inner-city adolescentsJulianna Deardorff
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 1104, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 31:205-17. 2003..Results were not found to vary across ethnic groups. The implications of these findings for adolescent mental health and preventive interventions targeting depression are discussed... - How did it work? Who did it work for? Mediation in the context of a moderated prevention effect for children of divorceJenn Yun Tein
Program for Prevention Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:617-24. 2004..Analyses demonstrate mediation effects primarily for children who began the program with poorer scores on discipline, mother-child relationship quality, and externalizing problems... - Suicidality and correlates among rural adolescents of ChinaXianchen Liu
Department of Family and Human Development, Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:443-51. 2005..This study examined the prevalence and correlates of suicidality among Chinese adolescents... - Resilience rather than recovery: a contextual framework on adaptation following bereavementIrwin N Sandler
Prevention Research Center, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 6005, USA
Death Stud 32:59-73. 2008..By use of a "contextual resilience" framework, the authors emphasize the central role that person-environment transactions play versus the heavy emphasis on intrapersonal processes in some other approaches to resilience... - Psychopathology associated with suicide attempts among rural adolescents of ChinaXianchen Liu
Department of Family and Human Development and Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 35:265-76. 2005..These findings demonstrated the independent contribution of anxiety/depression and aggression to suicide attempts in Chinese adolescents... - Promoting and protecting youth mental health through evidence-based prevention and treatmentJohn R Weisz
Harvard University, Judge Baker Children s Center, Boston, MA 02120 3225, USA
Am Psychol 60:628-48. 2005..Connecting the science and practice of prevention and treatment will be good for science, for practice, and for children, adolescents, and their families... - Predicting readiness to adopt evidence-based programs for divorcing families: champions, attitudes, and access to fundingJeffrey T Cookston
San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 77:573-81. 2007..The counties' ability to access funding to support programming did not predict ultimate readiness to adopt extended programming. Implications for research on the dissemination of prevention programs for children of divorce are discussed...
Research Grants
- ASU Prevention Research Center for Families in StressIrwin Sandler; Fiscal Year: 2007..The Operations Core provides critical infrastructure for Center decision making and management, web-based data collection, data management, statistical analysis, analysis of ethical issues and training. OPERATIONS CORE ..
- Follow-up of a Prevention Program for Bereaved FamiliesIrwin Sandler; Fiscal Year: 2005..To assess cost-benefit of participation in the Family Bereavement Program. The proposal is consistent with NIMH priorities, to support long-term follow-up of prevention research (NIMH, 1998). ..
- Impact of the Family Bereavement Program Fifteen Years LaterIRWIN N contact SANDLER; Fiscal Year: 2010....