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Temperament and adolescent substance use: a transactional analysis of emerging self-controlThomas Ashby Wills
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:69-81. 2004..We also suggest that temperament and self-control moderate links between parenting, peer associations, and substance use. Implications of the transactional model for clinical intervention and research are discussed...
Peer influence in children and adolescents: crossing the bridge from developmental to intervention scienceMary Gifford-Smith
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:255-65. 2005....- A multilevel approach to family-centered prevention in schools: process and outcomeT J Dishion
University of Oregon, Child and Family Center, Department of Psychology, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
Addict Behav 25:899-911. 2000..The effective implementation of family interventions within a school context suggests that these interventions can make a significant contribution to reducing problem behavior and substance use from a public health perspective... - Cross-setting consistency in early adolescent psychopathology: deviant friendships and problem behavior sequelaeT J Dishion
University of Oregon, Department of Psychology Child and Family Center, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
J Pers 68:1109-26. 2000..These findings are consistent with a developmental account of adolescent maladjustment and suggest that emotional disturbance in early adolescence might exacerbate youth vulnerability, especially to deviancy training within friendships... - A longitudinal analysis of friendships and substance use: bidirectional influence from adolescence to adulthoodThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
Dev Psychol 38:480-91. 2002.... - Preventing early adolescent substance use: a family-centered strategy for the public middle schoolThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
Prev Sci 3:191-201. 2002..These findings are discussed with respect to lessons learned about parent engagement, optimizing strategies for schoolwide implementation, and the promise of embedding family interventions within the public school ecology... - Pragmatism in modeling peer influence: dynamics, outcomes, and change processesThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
Dev Psychopathol 14:969-81. 2002..Findings are discussed with respect to developmental theory and the design of future intervention trials that clarify the role of adults in structuring the emerging adolescents' world of peers... - Adolescent self-regulation as resilience: resistance to antisocial behavior within the deviant peer contextTheodore W Gardner
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:273-84. 2008..The implications of these findings for models for the development of antisocial behaviors and for intervention science are discussed... - The Family Check-Up in early childhood: a case study of intervention process and changeAnne M Gill
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 37:893-904. 2008..The case is discussed with respect to the findings from a current multisite randomized control trial of the FCU and its application to other populations... - A school-based, family-centered intervention to prevent substance use: the family check-upElizabeth A Stormshak
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 35:227-32. 2009..It is grounded in developmental theory and targets salient risk factors for the development of later problem behavior such as substance use, family management deficits, deviant peer affiliations, and problem behavior at school... - Improvements in maternal depression as a mediator of intervention effects on early childhood problem behaviorDaniel S Shaw
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 210 South Bouquet Street, 4101 Sennott Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 0001, USA
Dev Psychopathol 21:417-39. 2009..The results are discussed with respect to targeting maternal depression in future intervention studies aimed at improving early child problem behavior... 
Cascading peer dynamics underlying the progression from problem behavior to violence in early to late adolescenceThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 195 West 12th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 3408, USA
Dev Psychopathol 22:603-19. 2010....- The ethnic context of child and adolescent problem behavior: implications for child and family interventionsMiwa Yasui
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 195 West 12th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 3408, USA
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 10:137-79. 2007.... - Interpersonal dynamics within adolescent friendships: dyadic mutuality, deviant talk, and patterns of antisocial behaviorTIMOTHY F PIEHLER
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401 3408, USA
Child Dev 78:1611-24. 2007..Furthermore, friendship dyads who engaged in high levels of deviant talk and were mutual in their interactions reported the highest rates of antisocial behavior... - Peer contagion in interventions for children and adolescents: moving towards an understanding of the ecology and dynamics of changeThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center and Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97401 3448, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:395-400. 2005..Finally, we suggest methodological enhancements to study peer contagion in intervention trials... - An ecological approach to promoting early adolescent mental health and social adaptation: family-centered intervention in public middle schoolsElizabeth A Stormshak
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
Child Dev 82:209-25. 2011.... - The family check-up with high-risk indigent families: preventing problem behavior by increasing parents' positive behavior support in early childhoodThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
Child Dev 79:1395-414. 2008.... - Longitudinal outcomes of young high-risk adolescents with imaginary companionsMarjorie Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Dev Psychol 46:1632-6. 2010..However, a longitudinal follow-up at the end of high school indicated that the children who had imaginary companions in middle school showed greater positive adjustment on a multiple-indicator adjustment construct... - Direct observation of family management: validity and reliability as a function of coder ethnicity and trainingMiwa Yasui
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 195 West 12th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon 97401 3408, USA
Behav Ther 39:336-47. 2008..These findings are discussed with respect to recommendations for cross-cultural research as well as general theories of ethnic socialization... - An adaptive approach to family-centered intervention in schools: linking intervention engagement to academic outcomes in middle and high schoolElizabeth A Stormshak
Counseling Psychology Program, Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401 3408, USA
Prev Sci 10:221-35. 2009.... - Peer contagion in child and adolescent social and emotional developmentThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97401, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 62:189-214. 2011..It appears that a history of peer rejection is a vulnerability factor for influence by peers, and adult monitoring, supervision, positive parenting, structure, and self-regulation serve as protective factors... - Transactional analysis of the reciprocal links between peer experiences and academic achievement from middle childhood to early adolescenceMarie Hélène Véronneau
Department of Psychology and Research Unit Children s Psychosocial Maladjustment, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dev Psychol 46:773-90. 2010..These data also suggest that peer rejection in childhood may disrupt future academic achievement. Possible mediating mechanisms, as well as peer selection and influences in the context of social development, are discussed... - Frontolimbic activity in a frustrating task: covariation between patterns of coping and individual differences in externalizing and internalizing symptomsIda Moadab
Department of Psychology, 1227, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Dev Psychopathol 22:391-404. 2010..These findings suggest that the use of event-related potential methodology with paradigms that elicit cognition-emotion can provide insight into the neural mechanisms of regulatory deficits that result in problem behaviors in youth... - Predicting change in early adolescent problem behavior in the middle school years: a mesosystemic perspective on parenting and peer experiencesMarie Hélène Véronneau
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:1125-37. 2010..These findings highlight the importance of studying the family-peer mesosystem when considering risk and resilience in early adolescence, and when considering implications for intervention... - Adolescents' resilience as a self-regulatory process: promising themes for linking intervention with developmental scienceThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 377 Straub Hall, Eugene, Oregon 97401, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1094:125-38. 2006..The construct of self-regulation also provides an excellent target for strategies aimed to improve child and adolescent adjustment in problematic environments and stressful circumstances... - Family processes and adolescent problem behavior: integrating relationship narratives into understanding development and changeBernadette Marie Bullock
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401 3408, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:396-407. 2007..The internal consistency and validity of positive RS and negative RS scales were also evaluated... - An ecological approach to child and family clinical and counseling psychologyElizabeth A Stormshak
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 5:197-215. 2002..In general, a reformulation of mental heath services for children and families within an ecological framework enhances the potential for integrating science and practice... - Premature adolescent autonomy: parent disengagement and deviant peer process in the amplification of problem behaviourThomas J Dishion
Department of Psychology, Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 195 West 12th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 3408, USA
J Adolesc 27:515-30. 2004..The implications for interventions that target adolescents are discussed... - An introduction to the special issue on advances in process and dynamic system analysis of social interaction and the development of antisocial behaviorThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97401 3408, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:575-8. 2004..The reports comprising this special issue, and how they build on and advance previous research efforts, are described from this frame of reference... - Adolescent friendship as a dynamic system: entropy and deviance in the etiology and course of male antisocial behaviorThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97401 3408, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:651-63. 2004..Findings suggest that individual risk for maladaptation may be amplified by early adolescent friendship dynamics organized around deviance... - Predicting early adolescent gang involvement from middle school adaptationThomas J Dishion
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 34:62-73. 2005..g., peer rejection, school failure) require attention in the design of interventions to prevent the formation of gangs among high-risk young adolescents... - Attention and adolescent tobacco use: A potential self-regulatory dynamic underlying nicotine addictionTheodore W Gardner
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 195 West 12th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 3408, USA
Addict Behav 31:531-6. 2006..Future research requires repeated assessments of attention, affective states and tobacco use to clarify issues of temporal ordering... - Sibling collusion and problem behavior in early adolescence: toward a process model for family mutualityBernadette Marie Bullock
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon Child and Family Center, Eugene 97401, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:143-53. 2002..These data also indicate that attention to sibling relationship processes is relevant to family interventions designed to mitigate the development of behavior problems... - Implementing family-centered interventions within the public middle school: linking service delivery to change in student problem behaviorElizabeth A Stormshak
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 195 West 12th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:723-33. 2005..The implications of these findings for dissemination of empirically supported, school-based, family-centered interventions are discussed... - The contribution of peers to monthly variation in adolescent depressed mood: a short-term longitudinal study with time-varying predictorsArin M Connell
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene 97401 3408, USA
Dev Psychopathol 18:139-54. 2006..As expected, depressed mood was higher for girls and more prevalent among older adolescents. The results suggest that peer processes may be linked in time to the development of depression, especially among high-risk adolescents... - Reciprocal models of child behavior and depressive symptoms in mothers and fathers in a sample of children at risk for early conduct problemsHeather E Gross
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Fam Psychol 22:742-51. 2008.... - Family intervention effects on co-occurring early childhood behavioral and emotional problems: a latent transition analysis approachArin Connell
Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:1211-25. 2008..These results suggest family interventions in early childhood can potentially disrupt the early emergence of both emotional and behavioral problems... - Randomized trial of a family-centered approach to the prevention of early conduct problems: 2-year effects of the family check-up in early childhoodDaniel S Shaw
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:1-9. 2006..The results are discussed in relation to other preventive interventions for young children... - An adaptive approach to family intervention: linking engagement in family-centered intervention to reductions in adolescent problem behaviorArin M Connell
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, OR, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:568-79. 2007.... - Parenting self-efficacy and problem behavior in children at high risk for early conduct problems: the mediating role of maternal depressionChelsea M Weaver
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1560, USA
Infant Behav Dev 31:594-605. 2008..These findings suggest maternal depression as a potential disruptor of caregiver confidence in early childhood, which has implications for the design and focus of parenting interventions... - Functional MRI evidence for inefficient attentional control in adolescent chronic cannabis abuseYalchin Abdullaev
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
Behav Brain Res 215:45-57. 2010..These results suggest that chronic cannabis users have less efficient executive attention in conflict resolution tasks, demanding more activation in the right prefrontal areas to resolve conflict... - From boys to men: predicting adult adaptation from middle childhood sociometric statusSarah E Nelson
Harvard Medical School, Division on Addictions, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Dev Psychopathol 16:441-59. 2004..Longitudinal findings are discussed with respect to the salience of male peer rejection in middle childhood and the social developmental processes that may account for the predictive validity of peer rejection... - The role of adolescent friends, romantic partners, and siblings in the emergence of the adult antisocial lifestyleJoann Wu Shortt
Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
J Fam Psychol 17:521-33. 2003..Hypotheses were tested on an at-risk sample of young men (the Oregon Youth Study). Findings were generally in keeping with the hypotheses... - Longitudinal analysis of flexibility and reorganization in early adolescence: a dynamic systems study of family interactionsIsabela Granic
Community Health Systems Resource Group, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dev Psychol 39:606-17. 2003..Two variables indexing the variability of the family interactions were derived from the grids. As hypothesized, the DS variables revealed a significant quadratic effect related to a peak in variability at 13-14 years of age... - Reducing depression among at-risk early adolescents: three-year effects of a family-centered intervention embedded within schoolsArin M Connell
Psychology Department, Case Reserve Unitversity, Cleveland, OH 44106 7123, USA
J Fam Psychol 22:574-85. 2008.... - Randomized prevention trial for early conduct problems: effects on proactive parenting and links to toddler disruptive behaviorFrances Gardner
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, UK
J Fam Psychol 21:398-406. 2007..Findings suggest that even within a brief and multifaceted preventive intervention, change in proactive parenting skills contributes modestly but significantly to change in child problem behavior... - Family-centered preventive intervention science: toward benefits to larger populations of children, youth, and familiesRichard L Spoth
Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, Iowa State University, Ames 50010, USA
Prev Sci 3:145-52. 2002..A summary of how articles address these tasks concludes with a discussion of the importance of futher strengthening a public service orientation in prevention science...
Research Grants
- Understanding and Preventing Early Adult Drug AbuseTHOMAS DISHION; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Early Family-Centered Prevention of Drug Use RiskTHOMAS DISHION; Fiscal Year: 2006..Finally, the intervention, assessment and evaluation procedures will be refined to promote relevance and diffusion of the family-centered intervention to WIC sites across the nation. ..
- Understanding and Preventing Early Adult Drug AbuseTHOMAS DISHION; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Development and Psychopathology Research Trng GrantTHOMAS DISHION; Fiscal Year: 2007..Intervention training is provided in a yearly child and family practicum offered at the CFC; similar opportunities exist at OSLC and ORI. ..
- Understanding and Preventing Childhood Drug Use RiskThomas J Dishion; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Understanding and Preventing Early Adult Drug AbuseThomas J Dishion; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- MULTICULTURAL INTERVENTIONS FOR ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USETHOMAS DISHION; Fiscal Year: 2001..To determine the long-term impact of the intervention program on reducing adolescent alcohol and other drug use, all families will be followed and assessed one year following treatment. ..
- ENHANCING FAMILY BASED PREVENTION OF ADOLESCENT DRUG USETHOMAS DISHION; Fiscal Year: 2002..The results of this research have implications for the implementation of future family services at the school level, as well as future prevention programs aimed at reducing substance use among early adolescents. ..
- Understanding and Preventing Childhood Drug Use RiskThomas J Dishion; Fiscal Year: 2010..abstract_text> ..