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Psychometric Properties of the "LifeSkills Training" Middle School Health Survey
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Lipien, Lodi; Ismajli, Flandra; Rigg, Khary K. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
"LifeSkills Training" (LST) is a popular drug prevention program shown to be effective at preventing youth substance use. The Middle School Health Survey (MSHS) is a questionnaire that was created by the developers of the LST curriculum to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes about drugs and life skills among youth. Despite the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Drug Education
Assessing the Real-World Effectiveness of Botvin Lifeskills Training in Public Schools
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Charishma Soni Aviles – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Adolescent substance abuse can lead to detrimental long-term outcomes; thus, many schools have implemented programs to reduce both the incidence and prevalence of these issues. The "Botvin LifeSkills Training" (LST) program has demonstrated promising results in randomized controlled trials, but program results outside randomized trials…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Training, Program Effectiveness, Adolescents
Strategies and Tools to Embrace Prevention with Upstream Programs: A Novel Pilot Program for Enhancing Social and Emotional Protective Factors in Middle School Students
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Knight, M. Amaris; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Goldberg, Pamela M.; Grob, Kelly – Children & Schools, 2019
Social-emotional learning (SEL) programs can be considered upstream, or primary prevention, because they focus on providing students with the life skills necessary to navigate situations and relationships from which problem behaviors may arise to prevent a crisis situation. Strategies & Tools to Embrace Prevention with Upstream Programs…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Prevention, Social Development, Emotional Development
Developing a School-Based Preventive Life Skills Program for Youth in a Remote Indigenous Community in North Australia
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Robinson, Gary; Leckning, Bernard; Midford, Richard; Harper, Helen; Silburn, Sven; Gannaway, Jess; Dolan, Kylie; Delphine, Tim; Hayes, Craig – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of development and the pilot implementation of a preventive life skills curriculum for Indigenous middle school students in a very remote community college in the West Arnhem region of North Australia. The curriculum integrates proven educational and psychological techniques with…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Indigenous Populations, Youth, Foreign Countries
Translation of Etiology into Evidence-Based Prevention: The Life Skills Program IPSY
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Weichold, Karina – New Directions for Youth Development, 2014
IPSY (Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection) is a universal life skills program aiming at the promotion of generic intra-and interpersonal life skills, substance specific skills (for example, resistance skills), school bonding, knowledge, and the prevention of substance misuse with a focus on alcohol and tobacco in youth. This program…
Descriptors: Etiology, Prevention, Daily Living Skills, Evidence
Integrating Life Skills Into a Theory-Based Drug-Use Prevention Program: Effectiveness among Junior High Students in Taiwan
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Huang, Chiu-Mieh; Chien, Li-Yin; Cheng, Chin-Feng; Guo, Jong-Long – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: Drug use has been noted among students in Taiwan during the past decade and schools have a role in preventing or delaying students' drug use. We developed and evaluated a school-based, drug-use prevention program integrating the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and life skills for junior high school students. Methods: We recruited 441…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Junior High School Students