Summary: This program is a comprehensive, home-based, therapeutic intervention for high-risk families with children ages 6–36 months that seeks to decrease parents’ psychosocial stress and enhance their children’s social-emotional and cognitive development. The program is rated Promising for reducing children’s externalizing behavior problems, parental stress, and parental depression. (Review the full program description).
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| Officer’s Use of Reinforcement and Disapproval | None | At the 12-month follow up, 34 percent of experimental group officers used reinforcement and disapproval during one-on-one meetings with their clients, compared with 17 percent of the control group officers. This difference was statistically significant. This suggests that officers who participated in STARR were twice as likely to capitalize on opportunities to use behavioral strategies that could help shape client behavior, compared with officers in the control group. |
Justice Systems or Processes (depends on context of program) ; TBD |
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a problem-focused, therapeutic approach that attempts to help people identify and change dysfunctional beliefs, thoughts, and patterns that contribute to their problem behaviors. This variant of CBT focuses specifically on children and adolescents who have anger-related problems. The practice is rated Effective for reducing aggression and anger expression, and improving self-control, problem-solving, and social competencies.
Evidence Ratings for Outcomes
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Juvenile Problem & At-Risk Behaviors - Aggression |
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Juvenile Problem & At-Risk Behaviors - Anger Experience |
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Juvenile Problem & At-Risk Behaviors - Self-Control |
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Mental Health & Behavioral Health - Problem-Solving |
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Mental Health & Behavioral Health - Social Competencies |
Rating Process
Program Status
This program is Active.