Open AccessApplying the Social Development Model in Middle Childhood to Promote Healthy Development: Effects from Primary School Through the 30s and Across Generations
Author(s) -
Richard F. Catalano,
J. David Hawkins,
Rick Kosterman,
Joanne Bailey,
Sabrina Oesterle,
Christopher Cambron,
David P. Farrington
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of developmental and life-course criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2199-465X
pISSN - 2199-4641
DOI - 10.1007/s40865-020-00152-6
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , intervention (counseling) , psychology , developmental psychology , population , longitudinal study , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , environmental health , pathology , psychiatry
This paper describes the origins and application of a theory, the social development model (SDM), that seeks to explain causal processes that lead to the development of prosocial and problem behaviors. The SDM was used to guide the development of a multicomponent intervention in middle childhood called Raising Healthy Children (RHC) that seeks to promote prosocial development and prevent problem behaviors. This paper reviews and integrates the tests of the SDM and the impact of RHC. While the original results of both model and intervention tests have been published elsewhere, this paper provides a comprehensive review of these tests. As such this integrative paper provides one of the few examples of the power of theory-driven developmental preventive intervention to understand impact across generations and the power of embedding controlled tests of preventive intervention within longitudinal studies to understand causal mechanisms.