Research Manuscript Database

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.

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.

Forehand, R., Parent, J., Peisch, V. D., Sonuga-Barke, E., Long, N., Breslend, N. L., & Abikoff, H. B. (2017). Do parental ADHD symptoms reduce the efficacy of parent training for preschool ADHD? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 97, 163–169. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2017.08.002

Forehand, R., Parent, J., Sonuga-Barke, E., Peisch, V., Long, N., Abikoff, H., Peisch, V. D., & Abikoff, H. B. (2016). Which type of parent training works best for preschoolers with comorbid ADHD and ODD? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial comparing generic and specialized programs. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, (8), 1503–1513. doi:10.1007/s10802-016-0138-8

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.