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. 2011;34(2):188–203.

Table 2.

Interventions Designed for Different Age Groups of Adolescents With Some Level of Evidence of Effect and the Domains They Address*

Level of Evidence <10 Years of Age Age Group 10 to15 Years of Age 16 to >20 Years of Age
Most Promising Evidence

  • Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (family, school)

  • Raising Healthy Children (family, school)

  • Seattle Social Development Project (family, school)

  • Nurse-Family Partnership Program (family)

  • Preventive Treatment Program– Montreal (multicomponent)

  • Keepin’ It REAL (school)

  • Midwestern Prevention Project/Project STAR (multicomponent)

  • Project Northland (multicomponent)

  • Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10–14 (family)

  • Project Toward No Drug Abuse (school)

  • Yale Work and Family Stress Program (workplace)

  • Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program and Added Brief Individual Intervention (community)
Mixed or Emerging Evidence

  • Classroom-Centered Intervention (school)

  • Families and Schools Together (family, school)

  • Fast Track (multicomponent)

  • First Steps to Success (school)

  • Good Behavior Game (school)

  • I Can Problem Solve (family)

  • Olweus Bullying Prevention (school)

  • Perry Preschool Program (school, family)

  • Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (school)

  • Schools and Families Educating Children (multicomponent)

  • Second Step (school)

  • The Incredible Years (family, preschool, multicomponent)

  • Triple-P-Positive Parenting (family)

  • Bicultural Competence Skills Program (clinic, school)

  • Family Matters (family)

  • Families That Care: Guiding Good Choices (family) (formerly Preparing for the Drug-Free Years)

  • Healthy School and Drugs (school)

  • Life Skills Training (school)

  • New Beginnings Program (family)

  • Project Alert (school)

  • School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (school)

  • SODAS City (family)

  • Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (school)

  • Brief Motivational Intervention in Emergency Department (community)

  • Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (community)

  • Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (community)

  • Problem Drinking in Workplace (workplace)

  • Raising minimum drinking age law (State-level)

  • Raising minimum drinking age law (school-level)
*

For a description of the various interventions and their evidence, see Spoth and colleagues (2008a).