This application is in response to the drug abuse prevention through family intervention announcement (PA-96-013). The goal of the project is to examine the efficacy of two different family interventions: a family self-administered program with telephone follow-up, and a family self-administered program plus parent and adolescent group meetings. The intervention content is based on Parents Who Care (PWC), a theory-based drug prevention intervention for families with teenage children. The program was developed and field-tested under a NIDA SBIR grant (DA07435). Based on the social development model (Catalano & Hawkins, 1996; Catalano, Kosterman et al., 1996), the intervention utilizes principles of social learning and attachment theory. The elements of family style (family affect, patterns of involvement and bonding) and family processes (parenting practices) have both been incorporated into the social development theory (Darling and Steinberg, 1993).
Specific aims of this project are: 1) to compare the efficacy of Parents Who Care family skills training curriculum using two different interventions; outcomes examined will include immediate (session by session), proximal (risk and protective factors) and distal outcomes (substance abuse and other problem behavior), 2) to model the impact of the different modes of intervention and risk status of families on hypothesized micro processes of change and 3) to conduct a benefit-cost analysis of the different modes of delivery of the program.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
3R01DA012645-04S2
Application #
6798432
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1)
Program Officer
Crump, Aria
Project Start
2000-09-15
Project End
2005-08-31
Budget Start
2003-09-01
Budget End
2004-08-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2003
Total Cost
$61,644
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Washington
Department
Type
Schools of Social Work
DUNS #
605799469
City
Seattle
State
WA
Country
United States
Zip Code
98195