PLAYING WITH ANGER--CULTURAL SOCIALIZATION INTERVENTION TO REDUCE YOUTH VIOLENCE

描述：本多系统干预研究的目的 项目是评估，干预和减少愤怒的经验， 运动期间的表达（即，篮球比赛）为非洲裔美国人 有侵略历史的男性青少年，并且在一个 文化生态弹性框架。干预措施包括（a） 武术攻击减少课程（MAAR），（B）面对面， 篮球比赛期间的体内愤怒管理训练（PLAAY）;（c） 以社区为基础的家长赋权教育;以及（d） 通道程序（ROPE）。干预措施旨在促进 在青年与三个关键群体之间建立安全可靠的关系 榜样群体：同龄人、本科生和老年人 邻里志愿者在四年的时间里， 家长或教师的风险（120年2和120年3）将 从城市社区项目中招募，随机分配到 实验组或对照组。这些年轻人将被随访至36岁 干预后的几个月。项目的主要目标 （1）与社区治疗计划合作， 有攻击性问题的青年，并培训可靠的项目工作人员;（2） 制定评估种族社会化，愤怒表达的措施， 成功的家庭和邻里环境;（3）实施文化 社会化干预，以减少青少年的愤怒和侵略， （4）评价疗效、概括性、 社会有效性的干预，以减少侵略后， 篮球联赛结束，跨设置，并与对照组相比， （5）传播研究成果。

DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this multi-systemic intervention research project is to assess, intervene with and reduce anger experience and expression during athletics (i.e., basketball play) for African American male teens who have a history of aggression, and to do so within a culturally-ecologically resilient framework. The intervention includes (a) martial arts aggression reduction curriculum (MAAR), (b) face to face in vivo anger management coaching during basketball play (PLAAY); (c) community-based parent empowerment education (COPE); and (d) a rites of passage program (ROPE). The intervention is designed to promote the development of safe and reliable relationships between youth and three key role model groups: Peers, undergraduate students, and older adult neighborhood volunteers. Over a four year period, 240 youth identified by parents or teachers as at-risk (120 in Year 2 and 120 in Year 3) will be recruited from urban community programs and randomly assigned to either experimental or control groups. These youth will be followed up to 36 months following the intervention. The primary objectives of the project are to (1) collaborate with community-based treatment programs to recruit youth with aggression problems and to reliable train project staff; (2) develop measures that assess racial socialization, anger expression, and successful family and neighborhood contexts; (3) implement a cultural socialization intervention to reduce youth anger and aggression during and after basketball play; (4) evaluate the efficacy, generalizability, and social validity of the intervention to reduce aggression after the basketball league is over, across settings and compared to a control group; and (5) disseminate study results.