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The power of lived experience in optimizing US policymakers’ engagement with substance use research: A series of rapid-cycle randomized controlled trials
Practical, economic, and policy implications of the Leve et al. paper
Findings from the Mighty Girls efficacy trial: Changes in acceptance of dating violence
Cascading effects of the family context in adolescence: Implications for young adult antisocial behavior and intergenerational transmission of risk
Integrated prevention infrastructure: A framework for addressing social determinants of health in substance use policy making
Compassion training in elementary school children
Insight for knowledge brokers: Factors predicting relationships with federal staffers
Effects of resource sharing networks on community anti-drug coalitions’ outcomes: A social network analysis
Alcohol and cannabis use in daily lives of college-attending young adults: Does co-use correspond to greater reported pleasure?
Measurement invariance of the coparenting relationship scale (CRS) across 10 countries
Unpacking Technical Assistance (TA) Strategies Within a State-Level Prevention Support System: A Mixed-Method Study in Determining Types and Amount of TA
Unpacking Technical Assistance (TA) Strategies Within a State-Level Prevention Support System: A Mixed-Method Study in Determining Types and Amount of TA
The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals
Vaporized nicotine in utero results in reduced birthweight, increased locomotion, and decreased voluntary exercise, dependent on sex and diet in offspring
Systemic Social and Emotional Learning: A Coordinated Approach to Student Success Across Settings
Transdermal alcohol concentration features predict alcohol-induced blackouts in college students
Evidence-based program implementation variability in new contexts: The Head Start REDI Program
Who benefits from autonomy-supportive parenting? Considering individual difference in adolescent emotional reactivity
Guided STEM activity kits for parents with preschool children: Design, frequency of use, and parent evaluation
Modeling long-term budgetary impacts of prevention: An overview of meta-analyses of relationships between key health outcomes across the life-course
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year
Systems of change: The Pennsylvania model
Prenatal substance exposure
Exploring adolescents’ perceptions of contemplative practices and forms of learning in Indian secondary schools
Innovation in strategies and practices to promote social and emotional skills
Teen friendship networks, development, and risky behavior
Strengthening child safety and well-being through integrated data solutions
“There is just more love in it”: a qualitative study of youth voice and relatedness in U.S. youth circus programs
Parental warmth and young adult depression: A comparison of enduring effects and revisionist models
The role of relatedness: Applying a developmental-relational view of compassion in adolescence
COVID-19 family dynamics and health protective behavior adherence: A 16-wave longitudinal study
Adolescents’ and parents’ affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life
Does it really matter that I do not remember my night? Consequences related to blacking out among college student drinkers
Interparental conflict, family climate, and threat appraisals: Early adolescent exposure and young adult psychopathology risk
Examining the ethics of school-based mindfulness programs
Alcohol’s role in sexual decision making in first-year college women: An event-level assessment
Innovative methods in child maltreatment and practice: Advances in detection, causal estimation, and intervention
The feasibility and utility of trauma screening for children involved in the juvenile justice system
Factors affecting educational leader wellbeing: Sources of stress and self-care
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use
Protective effect of parental monitoring on early-to-mid adolescents displaying high-level and increasing aggressive behavior
Associations between blackout drinking and self-reported everyday cognition among young adults
The mediating role of self-regulation on the link between child maltreatment and later substance use among Latinx youth
Kindergarten conduct problems are associated with monetized outcomes in adolescence and adulthood
SciComm Optimizer for Policy Engagement: A randomized controlled trial of the SCOPE model on state legislators’ research use in public discourse
Where and with whom does a brief social-belonging intervention promote progress in college?
The Role of Social and Emotional Learning in Future Workforce Readiness
Family risk exposure profiles during early childhood: Developmental processes and adolescent well-being
Science for policy to protect children in cyberspace
Understanding community- and system-capacity change over time: A close look at changing social capital in Evidence2Success communities
Alcohol-induced blackouts among college student drinkers: A multilevel analysis
PTSD symptom cluster severity predicts momentary emotion dynamics during couple conversations
Anonymity and grading fairness in online education
Identifying desired features that would be acceptable and helpful in a wrist-worn biosensor–based alcohol intervention: Interview study among adults who drink heavily
Correspondence between alcohol use measured by a wrist-worn alcohol biosensor and self-report via ecological momentary assessment over a 2-week period
Association between child maltreatment and substance use disorder across emerging adulthood
Relations between executive functioning and internalizing symptoms vary as a function of frontoparietal-amygdala resting state connectivity
Mindfulness for students in pre-K to secondary school settings: Current findings, future directions
Associations between older siblings’ substance use and younger siblings’ substance use intentions: Indirect effects via substance use expectations
Commentary: Improving the effectiveness and utility of the Helping to End Addiction Long‑Term (HEAL) prevention cooperative: A full translational framework
A national strategy for preventing substance and opioid use disorders through evidence‑based prevention programming that fosters healthy outcomes in our youth
Associations between daily drinking and daily memory lapses among middle-aged and older adults in the MIDUS study
Mindfulness in schools: Evidence on the impacts of school-based mindfulness programs on student outcomes in P-12 educational settings
Pregame heavy episodic drinking and Its association with negative consequences and other risky substance use behaviors
A six‐year longitudinal study of parenting and depressive symptoms among Taiwanese adolescents
Age-varying associations between attempts to lose weight and nicotine vaping across adolescence: Results from a nationally representative sample
Longitudinal associations among service members’ PTSD symptoms, partner accommodation, and partner distress
How do LGBTQ+ parents raise well-adjusted, resilient, and thriving children?
Supporting evidence-based SEL programs: What state policymakers can do
Measuring adolescents’ eating in the absence of hunger in the home environment: Validation of subjective vs. objective measures (forthcoming)
Francis, L. A., Rollins, B. Y., & Lozinski, R. H.
Resilience profiles predict polysubstance use in adolescents with a history of childhood maltreatment
Picci, G., Linden-Carmichael, A. N., & Rose, Emma J. (2022). Addiction Research & Theory. Advance online publication.
Reducing relative food reinforcement of infants using a music enrichment program: a randomized, controlled trial
Kong, K. L., Eiden, R. D., Morris, K. S., Paluch, R. A., Carr, K. A., & Epstein, L. H. (2022). The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Advance online publication.
Educational leader wellbeing: A systematic review
Doyle Fosco, S. L. (2022). Educational Research Review. Advance online publication.
Implementation reporting recommendations for school-based mindfulness programs
Baelen, R. N., Gould, L. F., Felver, J. C., Schussler, D., & Greenberg, M. T. (2022). Mindfulness. Advance online publication.
Associations between prescription and illicit stimulant and opioid use in the United States, 2015-2020
Emotional reactivity to daily family conflicts: Testing the within-person sensitization
What predicts willingness to experience negative consequences in college student drinkers?
Mallett, K. A., Turrisi, R., Reavy, R., Sell, N., Waldron, K. A., Scaglione, N., & Ackerman, S.D. (2022). Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 83(5), 704-711.
“Pick your team wisely”: A case study of a long-standing research-practice partnership
The roles of caregivers and friends in adolescent daily emotion dynamics
A comparison of parents’ and students’ reports of general and alcohol-specific parenting behaviors across the four years of college
Cultivating compassion for self and others: A School-based pilot study for peer-nominated caring adolescents
Labor force status as a buffer against mortality risks associated with alcohol consumption: A study of adult U.S. women, 2001-2015
Trends and opportunities for bridging prevention science and US federal policy
Scott, J.T., Prendergast, S., Demeusy, E., McGuire, K., & Crowley, M. (2022). Prevention Science, 23, 1333-1342.
Examining within- and between-person facets of negative affect and associations with daily craving among young adults in substance use disorder recovery
Can the academic and experiential study of flourishing improve flourishing in college students? A multi-university study
Taking a school-based child sexual abuse prevention program to scale: A cost analysis
Texas special education cap’s associations with disability identification disparities of racial and language minority students
Associations among financial well-being, daily relationship tension, and daily affect in two adult cohorts separated by the great recession
Sociodemographic disparities in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder diagnosis and overtreatment during elementary school
Long-term impact of familismo and ethnic identity on Latinx college student drinking and high-risk consequences
Initial conditions and functioning over time among community coalitions
Brown, L.D., Wells, R., Chilenski, S.M. (2022). Evaluation and Program Planning, 92.
Regulatory compliance monitoring paradigms and the relationship of regulatory compliance/licensing with program quality: A program commentary
Long-term effects of adolescent substance use prevention on participants, partners, and their children: Resiliency and outcomes 15 years later during the COVID-19 pandemic
Understanding heterogeneity among simultaneous alcohol and marijuana users: Latent classes derived from daily diary data
Obesity and accelerated epigenetic aging in a high-risk cohort of children
Targeting the proximal mechanisms of stress adaptation to prevent psychopathology in adolescents in poverty
Wadsworth, M. E., Ahlkvist, J., Jones, D. E., Pham, H., Rajagopalan, A., & Genaro, B. (2022). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(3), 344-359.
Coparenting-focused preventive intervention reduces postnatal maternal body mass index and buffers impact of cortisol
Moran, L. J., Lee, J., Jones, D. E., Fronberg, K. & Feinberg, M. E. (2022). Obesity.
Promoting toddlers’ self-regulation and healthy eating habits among families living in poverty: A randomized controlled trial of Recipe 4 Success
Nix, R. L., Gill, S., Hostetler, M. L., Feinberg, M. E., Francis, L. A., Stifter, C. A., McNeil, C.B., Kidder, S., Jones, D. E., Park, Y., Kim, C. N., Engbretson, A. G., Braaten, S. M., & Tamkin, V. L., (In press). Child Development.
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We are a diverse group of researchers and research support specialists passionate about the work we do in prevention to improve the lives of children and families across the life span.
Our Team
We are a diverse group of researchers and research support specialists passionate about the work we do in prevention to improve the lives of children and families across the life span.