Communication skills program for prevention of risky behaviors

Englander‐Golden, Paula; Golden, D. E.; Brookshire, William K.; Snow, Carly; Haag, Michael; Chang, A. T. S.

doi:10.3109/14659899609094718

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“…The resilience approach has resulted in the development of initiatives designed to foster resilience among disadvantaged youth. Examples include such programs as Say It Straight (SIS), which targets individual communication skills (Englander‐Golden et al., 1996), Families and Schools Together (FAST), which provides family skills training (McDonald et al., 1991), and the Resilient Youth Curriculum (Richardson & Nixon, 1997), which is aimed at helping youth avoid violence, drugs, and crime and promoting productive, responsible citizenship.…”

Section: Resilience Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Models of Youth Development and Problem Prevention: Toward an Integration of Terms, Concepts, and Models

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Memmo²

2003

Family Relations

132

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Over the past several years, increased interest in preventing youth problems and promoting healthy youth development has led youth and family practitioners, policy makers, and researchers to develop a wide range of approaches based on various theoretical frameworks. Although the growth in guiding frameworks has led to more complex models and a greater diversity in the options available to scholars and practitioners, the lack of an integrative conceptual scheme and consistent terminology has led to some confusion in the field. Here, we provide an overview of three approaches to youth development and problem prevention, critically examine their strengths and weaknesses, and offer some elaborations to help clarify, extend, and integrate the models. We conclude by discussing some general implications for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.

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Section: Resilience Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Models of Youth Development and Problem Prevention: Toward an Integration of Terms, Concepts, and Models

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Memmo²

2003

Family Relations

132

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“…The role of police officers has more recently been expanded to include partnering in public health initiatives. Police interventions have been effective in reducing teen substance abuse (Englander-Golden, Jackson, Crane, Schwarzkopf, & Lyle, 1994;Mislak & Evans, 1994), increasing children's bicycle helmet use (Cote et al, 1992), encouraging victims of family violence to seek out community resources (Buchanan & Perry, 1985), and empowering elderly people to avoid victimization by criminals (Zevits, Dcrim, & Gurnack, 1991). Alliances that empower citizens and prevent problems are advantageous to both the police and the community (Fox, 1967).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Training officers are key community contacts for health educators who are interested in building police officer-health education partnerships. Although previous police and public health initiatives have been successful (Englander-Golden et al, 1994;Mislak & Evans, 1994;Cote et al, 1992), it may be difficult for a health educator to establish credibility within the police environment. Based on previous studies, police officers tend to associate almost exclusively with other police officers, and they consider everyone external to the police community as outsiders (Klyver & Reiser, 1980).…”

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confidence: 99%

Safe Return: A Community-Based Initiative between Police Officers and the Alzheimer’s Association to Increase the Safety of People with Alzheimer’s Disease

Lachenmayr¹,

Goldman

Brand

2000

Health Promotion Practice

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A partnership initiated by an Alzheimer’s Association (AA) chapter and police departments in 11 New Jersey counties sought to increase enrollment of people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in a national registration program and expand community AD outreach efforts by training police officers about potentially dangerous wandering behavior in people with the disease. During the first 4 months of the program, almost 3,000 police officers learned how to reduce dangerous wandering behavior in people with AD, to make referrals to the national registration program, and to conduct Alzheimer outreach programs in their communities. Police-sponsored AD community outreach programs increased dramatically, as did enrollment in the national registration program. The authors provide a rationale for health education partnerships with police officers, describe the role of theory in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the officer training program, discuss the initiative and its impact, and offer recommendations for future programs and related research.

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“…In previous longitudinal school-based prevention research, SIS training resulted in significant behavioral changes, as measured by reductions in substance abuse related school suspensions and criminal police offenses (Englander-Golden, Elconin, & Miller, 1985;Englander-Golden, Elconin, Miller, & Schwarzkopf, 1986;Englander-Golden, Elconin, & Satir, 1986;Englander-Golden, Jackson, Crane, Schwarzkopf, & Lyle, 1989;Englander-Golden & Golden, 1996a). Reduction in premarital sexual relationships also has been reported (Morton, personal communication, 1990) as have fights leading to violence (Edwards, personal communication, 1994;Maxson, personal communication, 1994).…”

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“Say It Straight” Training with Mothers in Chemical Dependency Treatment

Englander‐Golden

Gitchel

Henderson

et al. 2002

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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Effectiveness of Say It Straight communication training as a treatment component was evaluated with 36 mothers in residential chemical dependency treatment. All were indigent, 32 had previous criminal offenses and 14 were on probation or parole at the time of treatment. Self-reported, disempowering behaviors showed highly significant decreases after SIS training (p < 0.001). Empowering behaviors, quality of family and group life showed significant increases (p = 0.001, p = 0.008, p = 0.015, respectively). Self-esteem, assessed with one group of eight mothers, showed a highly significant increase after training (p = 0.009). Statistically significant differences between mothers in treatment an average of 40 days compared to those in treatment 141 days prior to training disappeared after 10-16 hours of training, although the latter group also showed positive

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Communication skills program for prevention of risky behaviors

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Contemporary Models of Youth Development and Problem Prevention: Toward an Integration of Terms, Concepts, and Models

Contemporary Models of Youth Development and Problem Prevention: Toward an Integration of Terms, Concepts, and Models

Safe Return: A Community-Based Initiative between Police Officers and the Alzheimer’s Association to Increase the Safety of People with Alzheimer’s Disease

“Say It Straight” Training with Mothers in Chemical Dependency Treatment

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