Publications related to reduction
of adolescent substance use and problem behaviors
| Mason, W. A., Hitchings, J. E., & Spoth, R. (Accepted). Longitudinal relations among negative affect, substance use and peer deviance during late adolescence. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (PF 124) | |
| Mason, W. A., Kosterman, R., Hawkins, J. D., Haggerty, K. P., Spoth, R. L., & Redmond, C. (In press). Influence of a family-focused substance use preventive intervention on growth in adolescent depressive symptoms. Journal of Research on Adolescence (PF 91) | |
| Spoth, R., Randall, G. K., & Shin, C. (In press). Experimental support for a model of partnership-based family intervention effects on long-term academic success. School Psychology Quarterly (PF 115) | |
| Spoth, R., Redmond, C., Shin, C., Greenberg, M., Clair, S., & Feinberg, M. (2007). Substance use outcomes at 18 months past baseline from the PROSPER community-university partnership trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 32(5), 395-402. (PF 127) | |
| Spoth, R., Clair, S., Shin, C., & Redmond, C. (2006). Long-term effects of universal preventive interventions on methamphetamine use among adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 160,(876-882. (PF 118) | |
| Spoth, R., Shin, C., Guyll, M., Redmond, C., & Azevedo, K. (2006). Universality of effects: An examination of the comparability of long-term family intervention effects on substance use across risk-related subgroups. Prevention Science, 7,(209-224. (PF 96) | |
| Annenberg Commission on Adolescent Substance Abuse (2005). Prevention of substance abuse disorders.Chapter by prevention workgroup including R Spoth, in Evans et al(Eds) Treating and preventing adolescent mental health disorders: What we know and what we don’t know (pp. 411-426). New York: Oxford University Press, The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunn (PF 107) | |
| Lillehoj, C. J., Trudeau, L., Madon, S., & Spoth, R. (2005). Externalizing behaviors as predictors of substance initiation trajectories among rural adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37,(493-501. (PF 97) | |
| Lillehoj, C. J., Trudeau, L., & Spoth, R. (2005). Longitudinal modeling of adolescent normative beliefs and substance initiation. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 49(2), 7-41. (PF 83) | |
| Spoth, R. L., & Greenberg, M. T. (2005). Toward a comprehensive strategy for effective practitioner-scientist partnerships and larger-scale community benefits. American Journal of Community Psychology, 35(3/4), 107-126. (PF 76) | |
| Spoth, R., Randall, G. K., Shin, C., & Redmond, C. (2005). Randomized study of combined universal family and school preventive interventions: Patterns of long-term effects on initiation, regular use, and weekly drunkenness. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19(4), 372-381. (PF 106) | |
| Guyll, M., Spoth, R., Chao, W., Wickrama, K., & Russell, D. (2004). Family-focused preventive interventions: Evaluating parental risk moderation of substance use trajectories. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(2), 293-301. (PF 60) | |
| Spoth, R., Redmond, C., Shin, C., & Azevedo, K. (2004). Brief family intervention effects on adolescent substance initiation: School-level curvilinear growth curve analyses six years following baseline. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72(3), 535-542. (PF 86) | |
| Mason, W. A, Kosterman, R., Hawkins, J. D., Haggerty, K. P., & Spoth, R. L. (2003). Reducing adolescents' growth in substance use and delinquency: Randomized trial effects of a parent-training prevention intervention. Prevention Science, 4(3), 203-212. (PF 88) | |
| Spoth, R., Guyll, M., Chao, W., & Molgaard, V. (2003). Exploratory study of a preventive intervention with general population African American families. Journal of Early Adolescence, 23(4), 435-468. (PF 61) | |
| Spoth, R., & Redmond, C. (2002). Project Family prevention trials based in community-university partnerships: Toward scaled-up preventive interventions. Prevention Science, 3(3), 203-221. (PF 67) | |
| Spoth, R. L., Redmond, C., Trudeau, L., & Shin, C. (2002). Longitudinal substance initiation outcomes for a universal preventive intervention combining family and school programs. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 16(2), 129-134. (PF 65) | |
| Kosterman, R., Park, J., Hawkins, J. D., Haggerty, K. P., & Spoth, R. (2001). Modeling the effects of a preventive parent training intervention: An experimental test of "Preparing for the Drug Free Years.Unpublished manuscript (PF 51) | |
| Molgaard, V., & Spoth, R. (2001). Strengthening Families Program for young adolescents: Overview and outcomes. In S I Pfeiffer & L A Reddy (Eds), Innovative mental health programs for children: Programs that work(pp. 15-29). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press. Co-published simultaneously as Residential treatment for children & youth, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 15-29, 2001, Bi (PF 57) | |
| Spoth, R., Redmond, C., & Shin, C. (2001). Randomized trial of brief family interventions for general populations: Adolescent substance use outcomes four years following baseline. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69(4), 627-642. (PF 50) | |
| Molgaard, V. M., Spoth, R., & Redmond, C. (2000). Competency training: The Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14. OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin(NCJ 182208). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (PF 48) | |
| Spoth, R., Redmond, C., & Shin, C. (2000). Reducing adolescents' aggressive and hostile behaviors: Randomized trial effects of a brief family intervention four years past baseline. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 154, 1248-1257 (PF 56) | |
| Haggerty, K. P., Kosterman, R., Catalano, R. F., & Hawkins, J. D. (1999). Parenting for prevention of adolescent problem behaviors with Preparing for the Drug Free Years. OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin (PF 47) | |
| Spoth, R., Redmond, C., & Lepper, H. (1999). Alcohol initiation outcomes of universal family-focused preventive interventions: One- and two-year follow-ups of a controlled study. (Invited article for Alcohol and the Family: Opportunities for Prevention [Special issue]) Journal of Studies on Alcohol(Suppl. 13), 103-111. (PF 44) | |
| Spoth, R., Reyes, M. L., Redmond, C., & Shin, C. (1999). Assessing a public health approach to delay onset and progression of adolescent substance use: Latent transition and loglinear analyses of longitudinal family preventive intervention outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67(5), 619-630. (PF 42) | |
| Spoth, R., Redmond, C., Shin, C., Lepper, H., Haggerty, K., & Wall, M. (1998). Risk moderation of parent and child outcomes in a preventive intervention: A test and replication. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, (invited article for special section on preventive intervention research)68(4), 565-579 (PF 41) | |
