Center for Prevention of Problems in Early Adolescence

描述（由申请人提供）： 我们建议建立预防青少年早期多种问题中心。需要一个青少年早期预防中心，因为青少年早期是最常见和最严重的青春期问题开始的时期，缺乏一个全面的理论和实践方法来减少青少年早期多种问题的流行。该中心将汇集来自五个组织的科学家，即俄勒冈州研究所、家庭和儿童中心以及俄勒冈州大学暴力和破坏性行为研究所、俄勒冈州社会学习中心和帕克斯研究所。我们申请P30中心拨款，这将创建三个核心，以整合和支持多达15个研究项目。这些基础和应用项目涵盖了证明青春期早期预防所需的研究问题，包括家庭、学校、同伴、邻里和社区对物质使用、反社会行为、抑郁和高危性行为的影响。它们包括研究传播经验支持的做法，以及开发、改进和比较用于分析复杂、多层次数据集的统计技术。行政核心旨在通过正式和非正式机制促进一体化和协同作用。一个理论发展委员会将试图阐明一个全面的理论，对青少年早期发展的影响，可以指导进一步的研究。研究发展委员会将确定中心开发的最优先研究项目。方法核心将确定重要的方法问题，阐明解决方案，并培训中心工作人员实施这些问题。它将分析干预措施对分组的影响以及忠诚和坚持对结果的影响，并将测试发展模式在各项目数据集中的可复制性。传播核心将向科学界、决策者和从业人员提供中心的研究成果。但它也将发挥领导作用，帮助俄勒冈州的政策制定者和从业人员确定和传播经验支持的做法。该中心将通过改进理论、测量和分析来提高参与项目的生产率。它将确定青春期早期研究和实践的方向。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to create the Center for the Prevention of Multiple Problems in Early Adolescence. A center on early adolescent prevention is needed because early adolescence is the period in which the most common and serious problems of adolescence begin and a comprehensive theoretical and practical approach to reducing the prevalence of multiple problems in early adolescence is lacking. The Center will bring together scientists from five organizations, Oregon Research Institute, the Center for Families and Children and the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior at the University of Oregon, Oregon Social Learning Center, and Paxis Institute. We request funds for a P30 Center grant, which would create three Cores to integrate and support as many as 15 research projects. These basic and applied projects span the range of research problems needed to prove prevention for early adolescence, including family, school, peer, neighborhood and community influences on substance use, antisocial behavior, depression, and high risk sexual behavior. They include search on the dissemination of empirically supported practices and work developing, refining, and comparing statistical techniques for the analysis of complex, multi-level data sets. The Administrative Core is designed to facilitate integration and synergy through formal and informal mechanisms. A Committee on Theory Development will attempt to articulate a comprehensive theory of the influences on early adolescent development that can guide further research. A Committee on Research Development will define the highest priority research projects to be developed by the Center. The Methodology Core will identify important methodological problems, articulate solutions to them, and train Center staff in implementing them. It will conduct analyses of subgroup effects of interventions and of the influence of fidelity and adherence on outcome and will test the replicability of models of development across project data sets. The Dissemination Core will make the results of Center research available to the scientific community and policy makers and practitioners. But it will also play a leadership role in helping Oregon policy makers and practitioners identify and disseminate empirically supported practices. The Center will enhance the productivity of participating projects by improving their theory, measurement, and analysis. And, it will define the direction of research and practice on early adolescence.