Skills Training for Parents and Teens to Improve the Transition to High School

描述（由申请人提供）：为家长和青少年的技能培训，以改善过渡到高中这是一个建议，进行为期五年的实验测试的男孩城的常识育儿（R）（CSP）计划的有效性，针对选择性样本的8年级学生，以改善过渡到高中。将对标准方案和修改后的方案进行评估，修改后的方案补充了社会发展研究小组从“升级到高中”课程中试用的材料。基于社会学习原则，CSP是一种广泛使用的父母培训预防性干预措施，旨在改善家庭管理和家庭互动，以及减少儿童问题行为。基于社会发展模式，SUTHS由两个以家庭为中心的课程组成，旨在通过减少物质使用，犯罪，艾滋病毒相关的危险性行为和学业失败的风险来改善向高中的过渡。进入高中是一个关键的发展过渡，对青少年及其家庭提出了重大挑战，特别是在有学业失败风险的学生中。因此，中学毕业为干预提供了一个重要的机会窗口;然而，很少有针对性的预防方案来解决从人口统计学上看有学业失败风险的学生向高中过渡的问题。CSP和CSP+SUTHS代表了有前途的以家庭为基础的预防计划，可促进成功进入高中。符合条件的家庭将被随机分配到三个条件之一：标准CSP计划条件，修改后的CSP加SUTHS计划条件，以及最小接触控制条件。这将对目前由男孩镇广泛传播的标准CSP课程进行严格测试，同时也允许对修改后的版本进行审查，该版本为从初中到高中的发展过渡提供了潜在的增强。寻求改善有学业失败和辍学风险的学生向高中的过渡，有助于满足关键的编程需求，并有望减少与药物使用和相关问题行为相关的重大成本。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Skills Training for Parents and Teens to Improve the Transition to High School This is a proposal to conduct a five-year experimental test of the efficacy of Boys Town's Common Sense Parenting(R) (CSP) program targeted toward a selective sample of 8th-grade students to improve the transition to high school. Both the standard program and a modified version that is supplemented with materials piloted by the Social Development Research Group from the Stepping Up to High School (SUTHS) curriculum will be evaluated. Based on social learning principles, CSP is a widely used parent-training preventive intervention that seeks to improve family management and family interactions, as well as reduce child problem behaviors. Based on the social development model, SUTHS is comprised of two family-focused sessions designed to improve the transition to high school by reducing risks for substance use, delinquency, HIV-related risky sex behavior, and school failure. The move to high school is a critical developmental transition that presents significant challenges to teens and their families, especially among students who are at-risk for school failure. The end of middle school, therefore, provides an important window of opportunity for intervention; however, few prevention programs are tailored to address the transition to high school among students who are demographically at risk for school failure. CSP and CSP+SUTHS represent promising family-based prevention programs for facilitating successful entry into high school. Eligible families will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a standard CSP program condition, a modified CSP plus SUTHS program condition, and a minimal contact control condition. This will provide a rigorous test of the standard CSP curriculum, which currently is being widely disseminated by Boys Town, while also allowing the examination of a modified version that provides potential enhancements for targeting the developmental transition from middle school to high school. Seeking to improve the transition to high school among students at risk for school failure and dropout helps fill a critical programming need and holds promise for reducing the significant costs associated with substance use and related problem behaviors.