Research Manuscript Database

DeLay, D., Ha, T., Van Ryzin, M., Winter, C., & Dishion, T. J. (2016). Changing friend selection in middle school: A social network analysis of a randomized intervention study designed to prevent adolescent problem behavior. Prevention Science, 17(3), 285–294.

DeVargas, E. C. (2018). Motivational interviewing and the Family Check–Up: Predicting emerging adult health risk behavior outcomes. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon].

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.

Devereux-Blum, S. (2001). Teen parents in the Parents as First Teachers Programme: Narratives of experience. Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of education, Victoria University of Wellington.

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.

Durning, P., Parents as First Teachers Pilot Project, & Evaluation Unit. (1997). Parents as first teachers [Ko nga Matua hei Kaiako Tuatahi : pilot PAFT process report]. Wellington: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society.