Research database

Dishion, T. J., Shaw, D., Connell, A., Gardner, F., Weaver, C., & Wilson, M. (2008). The family check-up with high-risk indigent families: Preventing problem behavior by increasing parents’ positive behavior support in early childhood. Child Development, 79(5), 1395–1414.

Family-centered intervention decreases teens' problem behaviors. (2008). Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter, 24(2), 3 Author.

Feldman, J. S., Zhou, Y., Krug, C. W., Wilson, M. N., & Shaw, D. S. (2020). Indirect effects of the Family Check‐Up on youth extracurricular involvement at school‐age through improvements in maternal positive behavior support in early childhood. Social Development, 1–18.

Fosco, G. M., Frank, J. L., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2013). Opening the “Black Box”: family check-up intervention effects on self-regulation that prevents growth in problem behavior and substance use. Journal of School Psychology, 51(4), 455–468.

Fosco, G. M., Van Ryzin, M. J., Connell, A. M., & Stormshak, E. A. (2016). Preventing adolescent depression with the family check-up: Examining family conflict as a mechanism of change. Journal of Family Psychology, 30(1), 82.

Fosco, G. M., Van Ryzin, M., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2014). Putting theory to the test: Examining family context, caregiver motivation, and conflict in the family check-up model. Development and Psychopathology, 26(2), 305–318.

Fosco, G. M., Van Ryzin, M., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2014). Putting theory to the test: Examining family context, caregiver motivation, and conflict in the family check-up model. Development and Psychopathology, 26(2), 305–318.

Fosco, G. M., Van Ryzin, M., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2016). Putting theory to the test: Examining family context, caregiver motivation, and conflict in the family check-up model: Corrigendum. Development and Psychopathology, 28(4), 1565.

Garbacz, S. A., Stormshak, E. A., McIntyre, L. L., & Kosty, D. (2019). Examining family–school engagement in a randomized controlled trial of the Family Check–Up. School Psychology, 34(4), 433–443.

Gardner, F., Connell, A., Trentacosta, C. J., Shaw, D. S., Dishion, T. J., & Wilson, M. N. (2009). Moderators of outcome in a brief family-centered intervention for preventing early problem behavior. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(3), 543–553.