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Session Title: Are Universal School-based Prevention Programs Effective? It Depends on the Students and Outcomes Targeted
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Multipaper Session 119 to be held in INDEPENDENCE on Wednesday, Nov 10, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Human Services Evaluation TIG
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| Chair(s): |
| Wendy Garrard,
University of Michigan, wgarrard@umich.edu
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| Discussant(s): |
| Ann Doucette,
George Washington University, doucette@gwu.edu
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Second Step Violence Prevention: A Meta-analysis of Thirty Treatment\Control Studies
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| Stephanie Reich, University of California, Irvine, smreich@uci.edu
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| Wendy Garrard, University of Michigan, wgarrard@umich.edu
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| Abstract:
This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis of "Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum" (SSVP) research spanning 17 years (1993-2010). Second Step is a universal prevention program aimed at reducing school violence and promoting children’s social competence. The curriculum focuses on three core abilities (a) empathy; (b) impulse control and problem solving; and (c) anger management and is designed for three age levels: Preschool-Kindergarten, elementary grades, and middle school . The present work is the first quantitative synthesis of the body of SSVP evaluative research. This meta-analysis of treatment-control evaluations of SSVP 1) explores main effects of the SSVP program on aggressive, antisocial, and prosocial behaviors, 2) assesses the impact of each of the three “skill-building units” (i.e., empathy, impulse control and problem solving, and anger management) on behavior in those domains, and 3) determines whether the program has stronger impacts for specific age ranges.
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