We provide a developmental perspective on two related issues:(a) why traditional
preventative school-based interventions work reasonably well for children but less so for …

Background Community engagement has been advanced as a promising way of improving
health and reducing health inequalities; however, the approach is not yet supported by a …

Long-standing social problems such as poor achievement, personal and intergroup conflict,
bad health, and unhappiness can seem like permanent features of the social landscape. We …

Adolescents may especially need social and emotional help. They're learning how to handle
new demands in school and social life while dealing with new, intense emotions (both …

Introduction The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis investigating the
consistency and strength of relations between prosocial behavior, externalizing behaviors …

Classrooms are complex social systems, and student-teacher relationships and interactions
are also complex, multicomponent systems. We posit that the nature and quality of …

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A comprehensive mission for schools is to educate students to be knowledgeable,
responsible, socially skilled, healthy, caring, and contributing citizens. This mission is …

This article summarizes a much lengthier one that appeared in Prevention and Treatment.
The earlier article grew out of a project initiated by the Department of Health and Human …

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups,
and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives …