Journal Article

The Effects of the Fast Track Preventive Intervention on the Development of Conduct Disorder Across Childhood

Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group

2011

Overview

The impact of the Fast Track intervention on externalizing disorders across childhood was examined. Eight hundred-ninety-one early-starting children (69% male; 51% African American) were randomly assigned by matched sets of schools to intervention or control conditions. The 10-year intervention addressed parent behavior-management, child social cognitive skills, reading, home visiting, mentoring, and classroom curricula. Outcomes included psychiatric diagnoses after grades 3, 6, 9, and 12 for conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and any externalizing disorder. Significant interaction effects between intervention and initial risk level indicated that intervention prevented the lifetime prevalence of all diagnoses, but only among those at highest initial risk, suggesting that targeted intervention can prevent externalizing disorders to promote the raising of healthy children.

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,Wiley-Blackwell
• Subject: Achievement / Adolescent / Adolescents / African Americans / Aggression - psychology / Antisocial behavior / Antisocial Personality Disorder - diagnosis / Antisocial Personality Disorder - prevention & control / Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology / Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders - diagnosis / Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders - prevention & control / Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders - psychology / Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - diagnosis / Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - prevention & control / Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - psychology / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder / Behavior Disorders / Behavior modification / Behavior Therapy - methods / Behavioural psychology / Child / Child development / Child health / Child psychiatry / Child psychology / Child Rearing - psychology / Childhood / Children / Childrens health / Classrooms / Clinical Diagnosis / Cognitive skills / Cognitive-behavioral factors / Combined Modality Therapy / Conduct disorder / Conduct Disorder - diagnosis / Conduct Disorder - prevention & control / Conduct Disorder - psychology / Conduct disorders / Curricula / Curriculum / Disorders / Domiciliary visits / Education - methods / Effects / Elementary school students / Elementary schools / Externalizing problems / Female / Follow-Up Studies / Home Visits / House Calls / Humans / Internal-External Control / Intervention / Juvenile Delinquency - prevention & control / Juvenile Delinquency - psychology / Learning outcomes / Male / Males / Mental disorders / Mental health / Mentors / Mentors - psychology / Oppositional defiant disorder / Parent Child Relationship / Parent-child relations / Parents / Personality Assessment / Prevalence / Prevention / Psychological effects / Reading / Remedial Teaching / SCHOOLS AND YOUTH-SERVICE AGENCIES AS IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTAL SETTINGS / Secondary education / Social Behavior / Social Cognition / Social cognitive skills / Social factors / Social skills / Socialization / United States