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In Praise of a Cumulative Prevention Science
Author(s) -
Price Richard H.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1023/a:1024658127554
Subject(s) - praise , prevention science , health psychology , psychology , field (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , applied psychology , psychological intervention , maturity (psychological) , management science , public health , social psychology , computer science , developmental psychology , medicine , engineering , nursing , psychiatry , pure mathematics , programming language , mathematics
Durlak and Wells (1997) provide a pivotal appraisal of prevention research on children and adolescents. Their meta‐analytic approach has the advantages of reducing scientific misjudgments based on single studies, and providing a more balanced evaluation of impact of various interventions; it provides an opportunity for hypothesis finding, helps set methodological standards, allows assessment of working classifications in the field, and an evaluation of the maturity of the prevention field itself. New developmental tasks for the field include incorporating and pursuing the leads produced by these findings, conducting similar research syntheses with other populations and outcomes, and using the results as an impetus to increased operational precision and parsimony.