Description
A Practice is a general category of programs, strategies, or procedures that share characteristics with regard to the issues they address and how they address them. Practice profiles tell us about the average results from multiple evaluations of similar programs, strategies, or procedures. Practice ratings are assigned to individual outcomes and tell us the average result across multiple evaluations.
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| Effective | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
| Promising | On average, there is some evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
| Ineffective | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will not achieve the intended outcome.[1] |
| Negative Effects | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice may result in a negative outcome.[2] |
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| Practice Profile: Mentoring Youth With Emotional and Behavioral Problems |
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Youth development, Positive youth development, Treatment, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency | This practice encompasses programs that provide youths who have emotional and behavioral problems with supportive relationships (generally with older individuals who offer guidance and encouragement) to improve their mental health outcomes. The practice is rated Effective for improving youths’ internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms, and interpersonal skills. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Police-Initiated Pedestrian Stops to Reduce Crime |
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Policing strategies, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Use of force, Law enforcement, Crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Investigations, Mental health | Police-initiated pedestrian stops involve police officers’ stopping, questioning, and investigating pedestrians on the street, usually based on suspicion of criminal behavior or activity. Generally, the goal of the stops is to prevent or reduce the occurrence of crime and disorder. The practice is rated Promising for reducing measures of crime and displacement but was rated Ineffective for improving measures of mental and physical health of citizens who were stopped by police. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Mindfulness Training for Law Enforcement to Reduce Occupational Impact |
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Training, Law enforcement | This practice encompasses a wellness intervention that seeks to reduce the negative impact of stress on police officers, to improve their mental health outcomes. The practice is rated Effective for improving measures of depression, anxiety, and burnout. The practice is rated Ineffective for improving measures of sleep quality. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Parenting Programs for Teenage Mothers and Their Children |
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This practice includes interventions aimed at helping teenage parents improve their functioning as a parent and in understanding the developmental needs of their child. This practice is rated Effective for improving parental interactions with one’s child. This practice is rated Ineffective for affecting measures of parental attitudes, including parents’ appropriate developmental expectation of children, empathic awareness, nonbelief in corporal punishment, and lack of parent–child role reversal. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Formal Mentoring to Prevent Youth Substance Use |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Schools, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency, Legal substances | This practice encompasses programs that provide youths with formal supportive relationships and various positive, community-based activities and experiences to reduce their need to use alcohol and/or drugs. The practice is rated Effective for reducing the likelihood of alcohol initiation and reducing the likelihood of drug use initiation. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: School-Based Cyberbullying Prevention Programs |
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Bullying, School safety, Computers, School climate, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This practice aims to decrease cyberbullying perpetration and victimization and promote cyber-bystander behaviors among students in kindergarten through grade 12. This practice is rated Promising for reducing cyberbullying perpetration and victimization and is rated Promising for reducing bullying perpetration and victimization. This practice is rated Ineffective for promoting cyber-bystander behaviors. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Adolescent Substance Use Treatment |
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Juvenile health, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Drug treatment, Drugs | The primary goal of substance use treatment is to reduce or treat substance use among adolescents. There are several different types of treatment modalities that can be used in substance use treatment for adolescents, such as cognitive–behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement therapy, and assertive continuing care programs. The practice is rated Effective for improving substance use outcomes of adolescents. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Youth-Initiated Mentoring for Youth Development |
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Juvenile health, Mental health, Youth development, Child health and welfare, Juvenile delinquency | Youth-initiated mentoring involves a hybrid approach in which youths are empowered to identify, develop, and strengthen natural mentoring relationships from their existing social networks, rather than being assigned a new mentor through a more formal mentoring relationship. The practice is rated Promising for improving psychological, health, school/academic, and social outcomes, and rated Ineffective for cognitive functioning outcomes. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: School-Based Interventions to Reduce Suspension and Arrest |
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Truancy, Youth development, Afterschool, School climate, Juvenile delinquency | This practice includes universal and targeted school-based interventions that aim to reduce student arrests and suspensions by helping students develop prosocial behavioral skills or improving school environment by revising school discipline practices. This practice is rated No Effects for reducing student suspensions and rated No Effects for reducing arrest rates of students. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: School-Based Brief Interventions for Substance Use Among Youth |
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Schools, Marijuana, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Drugs | This practice consists of time-limited, low-dose therapeutic programs delivered in a school or educational setting that teach skills and encourage motivation to change or prevent substance use in youth participants. This practice is rated Effective for reducing alcohol use but was rated Ineffective for reducing marijuana use. Date Posted: |
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Date Created: July 31, 2020