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| A D FarrellSummaryAffiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University Country: USA Publications
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Methodological Challenges Examining Subgroup Differences: Examples from Universal School-based Youth Violence Prevention TrialsAlbert D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, P O Box 842018, Richmond, VA, 23284 2018, USA
Prev Sci 14:121-33. 2013....- Patterns of adolescents' beliefs about fighting and their relation to behavior and risk factors for aggressionAlbert D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 40:787-802. 2012..These differences suggest the need for tailoring prevention approaches for subgroups of adolescents who differ in their patterns of beliefs... - Parents as moderators of the impact of school norms and peer influences on aggression in middle school studentsAlbert D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
Child Dev 82:146-61. 2011..Implications for the role parents may play in reducing the impact of school and peer risk factors for aggression are discussed... - Normative beliefs and self-efficacy for nonviolence as moderators of peer, school, and parental risk factors for aggression in early adolescenceAlbert D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 39:800-13. 2010..There was clearer evidence for protective effects for self-efficacy for nonviolence for girls than for boys... 
Environmental influences on fighting versus nonviolent behavior in peer situations: a qualitative study with urban African American adolescentsAlbert D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
Am J Community Psychol 46:19-35. 2010..The identification of environmental influences on fighting and nonviolent responses has important implications for efforts to reduce aggression and promote effective nonviolent responses to problem situations encountered by adolescents...
Richmond youth against violence: a school-based program for urban adolescentsA D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
Am J Prev Med 12:13-21. 1996..The impact of the curriculum is being examined. The program has provided valuable lessons about conducting community-based research, particularly designing, implementing, and evaluating prevention programs...- Evaluation of Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP): a school-based prevention program for reducing violence among urban adolescentsA D Farrell
Department of Psychology, P O Box 842018, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
J Clin Child Psychol 30:451-63. 2001..Intervention effects on several measures approached significance at 6-month and 12-month follow-up. The program's impact on violent behavior was more evident among those with high pretest levels of problem behavior... - Development and evaluation of school-based violence prevention programsA D Farrell
Department of Psychology, P O Box 842018, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
J Clin Child Psychol 30:207-20. 2001..Efforts to develop effective prevention programs can be greatly facilitated by adopting an action-research strategy in which evaluation findings provide a basis for continual program refinement... - Structure of the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory Self-Restraint scale and its relation to problem behaviors in adolescenceA D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, P O Box 842018, Richmond, Virginia 23284 2018, USA
Psychol Assess 12:394-401. 2000..These findings have implications for using the WAI, particularly in studies of adolescent problem behaviors... - Identification and assessment of problematic interpersonal situations for urban adolescentsA D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23284 2018, USA
J Clin Child Psychol 27:293-305. 1998..These findings have implications for identifying youth at risk for emotional and behavioral problems and for designing more relevant interventions... - The structure of self-reported aggression, drug use, and delinquent behaviors during early adolescenceA D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
J Clin Child Psychol 29:282-92. 2000..These findings support the construction of separate scales assessing specific domains of problem behaviors in studies of adolescents' problem behaviors... - Peer influences and drug use among urban adolescents: family structure and parent-adolescent relationship as protective factorsA D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23284 2018, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 66:248-58. 1998..Neither gender nor family structure moderated the relationship between peer drug models and drug use. However, the association between peer drug models and drug use increased as a function of the level of mother-adolescent distress... - Individual factors influencing effective nonviolent behavior and fighting in peer situations: a qualitative study with urban African American adolescentsAlbert D Farrell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 37:397-411. 2008..The identification of factors that influence fighting and nonviolent behavior has important implications for efforts to reduce aggression and promote effective nonviolent responses to problem situations... - Structure of anxiety symptoms in urban children: competing factor models of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety ScaleK S White
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 69:333-7. 2001..Future research with the RCMAS should consider use of these dimensions. The combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology used in this study appeared to have considerable utility for refining measures... - Peer victimization in early adolescence: association between physical and relational victimization and drug use, aggression, and delinquent behaviors among urban middle school studentsTerri N Sullivan
Department of Psychology, P O Box 842018, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
Dev Psychopathol 18:119-37. 2006..These findings provide information about the generalizability of prior research and have important implications for intervention efforts... - Relation between witnessing violence and drug use initiation among rural adolescents: parental monitoring and family support as protective factorsTerri N Sullivan
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:488-98. 2004..With increasing levels of witnessing violence, however, the protective effects of monitoring and support were substantially diminished. These findings have important implications for research and intervention efforts... - Problematic situations associated with dating experiences and relationships among urban African American adolescents: a qualitative studyTerri N Sullivan
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
J Prim Prev 31:365-78. 2010..Identification of these problem situation themes has important implications for developing and evaluating prevention efforts designed to foster healthy adolescent dating relationships... - Core competencies and the prevention of youth violenceTerri N Sullivan
Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev 2008:33-46. 2008..Finally, we address the degree to which these core competencies have been included and systematically evaluated within school-based prevention programs, and we end with suggestions for future directions... - Anxiety and psychosocial stress as predictors of headache and abdominal pain in urban early adolescentsKamila S White
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri Saint Louis, 63121 4499, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:582-96. 2006..To examine the relations among anxiety, psychosocial stress, and headache and abdominal pain complaints within the context of the Biobehavioral Model of Pediatric Pain... - The study designed by a committee: design of the Multisite Violence Prevention ProjectDavid B Henry
Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Prev Med 26:12-9. 2004..Strengths and limitations of the final design are discussed...
Research Grants
- Identifying Essential Skills for Violence PreventionALBERT FARRELL; Fiscal Year: 2003..Completion of this work will set the stage for subsequent large-scale evaluation studies. ..
- Individual. Parnet, and School-Level Protective Factors in Early AdolescenceALBERT FARRELL; Fiscal Year: 2007....