Research Manuscript Database

DeVargas, E. C., & Stormshak, E. A. (2020). Motivational interviewing skills as predictors of change in emerging adult risk behavior. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 51(1), 16–24.

Dishion, T. J., & Kavanagh, K. (2003). Intervening in adolescent problem behavior: A family–centered approach. Guilford Press.

Dishion, T. J., Kavanagh, K., Schneiger, A., Nelson, S., & Kaufman, N. K. (2002). Preventing early adolescent substance use: A family-centered strategy for the public middle school. Prevention Science: The Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 3(3), 191–201.

Dishion, T. J., & Mauricio, A. M. (2015). The family check-up model as prevention and treatment of adolescent drug (ab)use: The intervention strategy, outcomes, and implementation model. In M. J. Van Ryzin, K. L. Kumpfer, G. M. Fosco, & M. T. Greenberg (Eds.), Family-based prevention programs for children and adolescents: Theory, research, and large-scale dissemination (pp. 86–110). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Dishion, T. J., Mun, C. J., Drake, E. C., Tein, J. Y., Shaw, D. S., & Wilson, M. (2015). A transactional approach to preventing early childhood neglect: The family check-up as a public health strategy. Development and Psychopathology, 27(4 Pt. 2), 1647.

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.

Edwards, R. C., Thullen, M. J., Korfmacher, J., Lantos, J. D., Henson, L. G., & Hans, S. L. (2013). Breastfeeding and complementary food: Randomized trial of community doula home visiting. Pediatrics, 132(Suppl. 2), S160–S166.

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.