Citation

McCord J, Tremblay RE, Vitaro F, Desmarais-Gervais L. Int. J. Behav. Devel. 1994; 17(4): 739-752.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/016502549401700410

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The authors discuss interim goals for prevention programmes designed to reduce antisocial behaviour. They describe effects of one such programme in which kindergarten teachers identified their most disruptive boys, some of whom were randomly allocated to a two-year treatment programme. The programme provided assistance in family management to the parents and in social skills to the boys, who were between the ages of 7 and 9 years during the treatment programme. By the age of 12, as compared with their peers who were not assigned to the treatment group, boys in the treatment group were doing better in school and evidencing less antisocial behaviour.

Language: en