Youth Violence
Child Development Project
A longitudinal study investigating children's social development and adjustment by following 585 children from two cohorts recruited in 1987 and 1988 from Tennessee and Indiana.
Deviant Social Contagion
The Duke University Executive Sessions Panel on Deviant Peer Contagion, which assembled six times over a 3-year period to complete a comprehensive analysis of the problem of deviant peer influence during interventions in education, mental health, juvenile justice, and community programs.
Fast Track
Fast Track is a multi-site intervention designed to prevent the onset of behavioral and psychological problems in adolescents.
Girls' Aggression: Development, Context and Process
This research seeks to understand the nature, antecedents, course, and mechanisms of aggression and antisocial behavior in girls.
GREAT Schools and Families
A national, four-site project evaluating a promising, existing family- and school-based violence-prevention program.
Problem Behaviors
ADHD
Study of College Students' Non-Medical
Use and Misuse of ADHD Medications - This two-year study examines the prevalence, correlates, causes, and consequences on the misuse and abuse of ADHD medications by college students.
History of ADHD in a Population-based Sample - This five-year project examines adolescent outcomes of population-based sample of individuals who had been diagnosed with ADHD five to six years earlier.
Project CLASS- The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of two promising interventions – computerized attention training and computer-assisted instruction for children with attention difficulties.
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