“…Continuing with variation in impact in universal preventive interventions, the work that our group and others (Hawkins et al, 2005;Reid et al, 1999) have done in early prevention of aggression, conduct disorder, delinquency and other externalizing behaviors, strongly suggests that prevention programs aimed at integrating and socializing children who exhibit externalizing behaviors into successful roles in the classroom, school, and family, can have major impacts on this high risk group and have beneficial or at least no harmful effects on those at much lower risk. Compared to programs that isolate and concentrate poorly behaving youth (Dishion et al, 1996(Dishion et al, , 1999(Dishion et al, , 2001, such approaches provide benefit by shaping behaviors within the most relevant social fields in their lives, thereby avoiding issues of labeling children as different and requiring a different intervention to adjust for reentry.…”