Prevention That Works!

Cynthia R. Knowles

Other Titles in:
Classroom Management & Student Behaviour | School Counselling | School Safety

July 2001 | 240 pages | Corwin

Despite the growing availability of information on effective drug and violence prevention programmes, schools continue to use programmes that have not been proven effective. Some are using model programmes, but have changed the content or design enough so that the features that made them effective are gone. Or worse, they continue to use programmes that have been proven ineffective simply because that is what is easiest, or most familiar.

The school shootings over the last few years are solid reminders that schools can no longer do just anything and call it adequate prevention. It is more critical than ever to learn from the examination of previous prevention efforts and not make the same mistakes a second time in this new arena of violence prevention.

Getting Started

Establishing Your Work Group

Writing Goals and Objectives

Program Review, Selection, and Implementation

Creating Homegrown Programs

Elements of Effective Prevention

Additional Data Collection

Preparing for Assessment of Program Effectiveness

Self-Report Questionnaires and Focus Groups

Collecting Information From Students

Cost and Time Effectiveness

Experimental Design - The Basics

Experimental Designs for Different Program Types

Crunching Your Numbers and Organizing Your Data

Public Presentation of Your Results

Troubleshooting Your Results

"Easy to read and understand, with a wealth of resource ideas. Very helpful for even a novice to understand and lead school and community groups through developing a practical prevention plan."

Jane Todey

Bureau of Children, Family, & Community Services, Iowa Department of Education, Des Moines, IA

"A good beginning tool for those in need to get the job done immediately."

Bertha Caldwell

Bureau of Children, Family, and Community Services, Des Moines, IA

"Knowles does a fine job of reaching her goal of providing a practical and accessible book for the practitioner charged with selecting, implementing, and evaluating prevention programs in two problem areas that dramatically affect the health of our children."

Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books, April 2003