Recent Publications

Hill, K. G., Bailey, J. A., Steeger, C. M., Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., Kosterman, R., Epstein, M., & Abbott, R. D. (2020). Outcomes of childhood preventive intervention across 2 generations: A nonrandomized controlled trial. JAMA Pediatrics. Advance online publication. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1310.

Jenson, J.M. (2020). We need a national prevention strategy for health and behavioral health problems. The Colorado Sun. May 10.

Catalano, R. F., & Toumbourou, J. W. (in press). Positive youth development. In S. J. Lopez (Ed.), The encyclopedia of positive psychology: Vol. II (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Fagan, A. A., Lewis, A. N., & Catalano, R. F. (in press). Prevention of adolescent mental, emotional, and behavioral health disorders: A global perspective. In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.), The encyclopedia of child and adolescent development. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Scheier, L.S., Catalano, R. & Winters, K.C. (in press). Prevention of substance use and use disorders: Risk and protective factors, programs and implementation.  In Y. Kaminer and K.C. Winters (Eds.), Clinical manual of adolescent addictive disorders (2nd edition).  Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

Bumbarger, B.K. and Kerns, S.E.U. (2019). Introduction to the Special Issue: Measurement and Monitoring Systems and Frameworks for Assessing Implementation and Adaptation of Prevention Programs. Journal of Primary Prevention, 40(1). DOI :10.1007/s10935-019-00537-4.

Cambron, C., Catalano, R. F., & Hawkins, J. D. (2019). The social development model. In D. P. Farrington, L. Kazemian & A. R. Piquero (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of developmental and life-course criminology (224-247). New York, NY: Oxford University Press

Catalano, R. F. (2019). How can Hong Kong utilize the research base for prevention and promotion science to improve the well-being of its adolescents? Journal of Adolescent Health , 64, S10-S13.

Catalano, R. F., Skinner, M. L., Alvarado, G., Kapungu, C., Reavley, N., Patton, G. C., Jessee, C., Plaut, D., Moss, C., Bennett, K., Sawyer, S. M., Sebany, M., Sexton, M., Olenik, C., & Petroni, S. (2019). Positive youth development programs in low- and middle-income countries: A conceptual framework and systematic review of efficacy. Journal of Adolescent Health, 65, 15-31.

Eisenberg, N., Jones, T. M., Kosterman, R., Bailey, J. A., Lee, J. O., Haggerty, K. P. (2019). Parenting practices in the context of legal marijuana: Voices from Seattle parents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(2), 587-598.

Epstein, M., Bailey, J. A., Furlong, M., Catalano, R. F., & Toumbourou, J. W. (2019). Does adolescent alcohol harm minimization policy exposure reduce adult alcohol problems? A cross-national comparison. Journal of Adolescent Health, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.08.019.

Epstein, M., Oesterle, S. & Haggerty, K. P. (2019). Effectiveness of Facebook groups to boost participation in a parenting intervention. Prevention Science, 20(6), 894-903.

Fagan, A. A., Bumbarger, B. K., Barth, R. P., Bradshaw, C. P., Brittany, R. C., Supplee, L. H., & Deborah, K. W. (2019). Scaling up evidence-based interventions in US public systems to prevent behavioral health problems: Challenges and opportunities. Prevention Science, 20(8), 1147-1168. DOI: 10.1007/s11121-019-01048-8.

Fagan, A. A., Hawkins, J. D., Farrington, D. P., & Catalano, R. F. (2019). Communities That Care: Building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Fleming, C. M., Eisenberg, N., Catalano, R. F., Kosterman, R., Cambron, C., Hawkins, J. D., Hobbs, T., Berman, I., Fleming, T., & Watrous, J. (2019). Optimizing assessment of risk and protection for diverse adolescent outcomes: Do risk and protective factors for delinquency and substance use also predict risky sexual behavior? Prevention Science.  Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11121-019-0987-9.

Gross, Thomas J., Duncan, Jenna, Kim, Samuel P., Mason, W. Alex, Haggerty, Kevin P. (2019). Predicting school suspension risk from eighth through tenth grade using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Contemporary School Psychology, 23(3), 270-289.

Guttmannova, K., Skinner, M. L., Oesterle, S., White, H. R., Catalano, R. F., & Hawkins, J. D. (2019). The interplay between marijuana-specific risk factors and marijuana use over the course of adolescence. Prevention Science, 20, 235-245.

Heerde, J. A., Bailey, J. A., Toumbourou, J. W., & Catalano, R. F. (2019). Longitudinal associations between the adolescent family environment and young adult substance use in Australia and the United States. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Advance online publication. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00821.

Herrenkohl, T.I., Jenson, J., & Catalano, R.F. (2019). Youth violence. In Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research. In A.C. Michalos (Ed.) New York: Springer.

Jenson, J.M. (2019). Improving behavioral health in young people: It is time for social work to adopt prevention. Research on Social Work Practice. On-line first at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1049731519862860.

Jenson, J.M., & Hawkins, J.D. (2019). Ensuring healthy development for all youth: Unleashing the power of prevention. In R. Fong, J. Lubben, & R.P. Barth (Eds.), Grand challenges for social work and society: Social progress engineered by science. (pp. 18-35).  New York: Oxford University Press.

Jenson, J.M., & Williford, A. (2019). Prevention of aggression and bullying in children and adolescents. In J.N. Butcher, J.M. Hooley, & P.C. Kendall (Eds.), The APA Handbook of Psychopathology. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Kosterman, R., Hawkins, J.D., Hill, K.G., Balley, J.A., Catalano, R.F. & Abbott, R.D. (2019) Effects of social development intervention in childhood on adult life at ages 30 to 39. Prevention Science, 20, 986-995.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019). Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth: A National Agenda. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25201

Prendergast, L. E., Toumbourou, J. W., McMorris, B. J., & Catalano, R. F. (2019). Outcomes of early adolescent sexual behavior in Australia: Longitudinal findings in young adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64, 516-522.

Roppolo, R. H., McWilliam, J., Aldridge, W. A., II, Jenkins, R. H., Boothroyd, R. I., & Moore, L. R. (2019). Is the concept of self-regulation useful for supporting effective implementation in community settings? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 22, 118-128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-019-00286-0

Salazar, A. M., Haggerty, K. P., Barkan, S. E., Peterson, R., Furlong, M., Kim, E., Cole, J. J. & Colito, J. M. (2019). Supporting LGBTQ+ foster teens: Development of a relationship-focused, self-guided curriculum for foster families. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s13178-019-00387-z.

Salazar, A. M., Haggerty, K. P., Briney, J. S., Vann, T., Vinson, J., Lansing, M., Catalano, R. F., Pecora, P. J., & De Haan, B. (2019). Assessing an adapted approach to Communities That Care for child maltreatment prevention. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 10, 349-369.

Salazar, A. M., Haggerty, K. P., Briney, J. S., Vann, T., Lansing, M., Vinson, J., Catalano, R. F., Pecora, P. J. & De Haan, B. (2019). Assessing an adapted approach to Communities That Care for child maltreatment prevention. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 10(3), 349-369.

Salazar, A. M., Haggerty, K. P., Walsh, S., Noell, B. & Kelley-Siel, E. (2019). Adapting the Friends of the Children programme for child welfare system-involved families. Child & Family Social Work, 24(4), 430-440.

Social Development Research Group. (2019). Celebrating 40 Years of Research, a 4-page overview of University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group’s work over the past four decades. Retrieved from http://www.sdrg.org

Tajima, E. A., McCowan, K. J., Lindhorst, T., Haggerty, K. P., Rivara, J. B., Schack, S., Ramey, A. &Jackson, T. R. (2019). Promoting SBIRT training for social work students across field settings. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 19(1-2), 108-123.

Brady, S. S., Parker, C. J., Jeffries, E. F., Simpson, T. Y., Brooke-Weiss, B. L. & Haggerty, K.P. (2018). Implementing the Communities That Care prevention system: Challenges, solutions, and opportunities in an urban setting. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 55(5 Suppl. 1), S70-S81.

Haggerty, K. P. & McCowan, K. J. (2018). Using the social development strategy to unleash the power of prevention. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 9(4), 741-763

Hanson, K., Haggerty, K. P., Fleming, C. B., Skinner, M. L., Casey-Goldstein, M., Mason, W. A., Redmond, C. & Thompson, R. W. (2018). Washington State retail marijuana legalization: Parent and adolescent preferences for marijuana messages in a sample of low-income families. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79(2), 309-317.

Oesterle, Sabrina, Epstein, Marina, Haggerty, Kevin P., Moreno, Megan A. (2018). Using Facebook to recruit parents to participate in a family program to prevent teen drug use. Prevention Science, 19(4), 559-569.

Salazar, Amy M., McCowan, Kristin J., Cole, Janice J., Skinner, Martie L., Noell, Bailey, Colito, Jessica M., Haggerty, Kevin P., Barkan, Susan E. (2018). Developing relationship building tools for foster families caring for teens who are LGBTQ2S. Child Welfare, 96(2), 75-97.

Salazar, Amy M., Noell, Bailey, Cole, Janice J., Haggerty, Kevin P., Roe, Stephanie (2018). Incorporating self-determination into substance abuse prevention programming for youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood. Child & Family Social Work, 23(2), 281-288.

Jenson, J.M., & Hawkins, J.D. (2018). Ensuring healthy development for all youth: Unleashing the power of prevention. In R. Fong, J. Lubben, & R.P. Barth (Eds.), Grand challenges for social work and society: Social progress engineered by science. (pp. 18-35).  New York: Oxford University Press.

Jenson, J.M., & Hawkins, J.D. (2018). Ensure healthy development for all youth. Grand Challenges Fact Sheet. Cleveland, OH: American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Hawkins, J.D., Jenson, J.M., Catalano, R.F., Fraser, M.W., Botvin, G.J., Shapiro, V., . . . Stone, S. (2016). Unleashing the power of prevention. American Journal of Medical Research, 3, 39–74. doi:10.22381/AJMR3120162.

Hawkins, J.D., Jenson, J.M., DeVylder, J., Catalano, R.F., Botvin, G.J., Fraser, M., Bender, K.A., Shapiro, V., & Bumbarger, B. (2016). Policy recommendations for meeting the Grand

Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth. Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative Policy. Cleveland, OH: American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Hawkins, J. D., Jenson, J. M., Catalano, R. F., Fraser, M. W., Botvin, G. J., Shapiro, V., & the Coalition for the Promotion of Behavioral Health. (2015). Unleashing the power of prevention (Grand Challenge for Social Work Initiative Working Paper No. 10). Cleveland, OH: American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Hawkins, J.D., Jenson, J.M., et al. (2015). Unleashing the Power of Prevention. Discussion Paper, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, Washington, DC. http://nam.edu/perspectives-2015-unleashing-the-power-of-prevention/.

Hawkins, J.D., Jenson, J.M., et al. (2015). Unleashing the Power of Prevention. Commentary, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, Washington, DC. http://nam.edu/perspectives-2015-a-challenge-to-unleash-the-power-of-prevention/.