TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing urban African American youth externalizing and social problem behavioral difficulties in a family oriented prevention project
AU - Bannon, William M.
AU - McKay, Mary M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH 63662) and the W.T. Grant Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. William Bannon is currently a pre-doctoral fellow at the Columbia University School of Social Work supported by a training grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (5T32MH014623-24).
Funding Information:
Braddock, J. H. & McPartland, J. (1992). Educating at risk youth: Recent trends, cur-rent status, and future needs. Washington, DC: Panel on high-risk youth, Commis-sion on Behavioral and Social Science, and Education, National Research Council.
PY - 2007/5/22
Y1 - 2007/5/22
N2 - The current article examines the secondary effects of an inner-city Community-University Collaborative HIV-Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Family Program (CHAMP) in reducing externalizing (i.e., aggressive and rule-breaking behavior) and social problem behaviors for children with significant levels of externalizing behavior. Data were provided by parents for a sample of 50 youth assigned to the CHAMP Family Program and 299 comparison children. Among the CHAMP Family Program participants at pretest, 40% (n = 20) of parents reported their children exhibited significant levels of externalizing behavior. Among the comparison group, 38% (n = 113) of parents reported their children exhibited significant levels of externalizing behavior. There was a significant reduction in child externalizing scores for children in the CHAMP Family Program from pretest to posttest, bringing their mean scores of externalizing behavior from clinical to sub-clinical levels. Posttest only comparisons revealed that children in the CHAMP Family Program had significantly lower externalizing behavior scores than children in the comparison group. Analyses of child social problems indicated mixed results. Implications for urban mental health and prevention programs are discussed.
AB - The current article examines the secondary effects of an inner-city Community-University Collaborative HIV-Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Family Program (CHAMP) in reducing externalizing (i.e., aggressive and rule-breaking behavior) and social problem behaviors for children with significant levels of externalizing behavior. Data were provided by parents for a sample of 50 youth assigned to the CHAMP Family Program and 299 comparison children. Among the CHAMP Family Program participants at pretest, 40% (n = 20) of parents reported their children exhibited significant levels of externalizing behavior. Among the comparison group, 38% (n = 113) of parents reported their children exhibited significant levels of externalizing behavior. There was a significant reduction in child externalizing scores for children in the CHAMP Family Program from pretest to posttest, bringing their mean scores of externalizing behavior from clinical to sub-clinical levels. Posttest only comparisons revealed that children in the CHAMP Family Program had significantly lower externalizing behavior scores than children in the comparison group. Analyses of child social problems indicated mixed results. Implications for urban mental health and prevention programs are discussed.
KW - Implications for urban mental health and prevention programs
KW - Pretest to posttest reduction of externalizing behavior
KW - Reducing externalizing and social problem behavior
KW - Secondary effects of CHAMP
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U2 - 10.1300/J200v05n01_11
DO - 10.1300/J200v05n01_11
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34249654559
SN - 1533-2985
VL - 5
SP - 221
EP - 240
JO - Social Work in Mental Health
JF - Social Work in Mental Health
IS - 1-2
ER -