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... the promotion of positive MEB development for all children, youth, and young adults. A number of promotion and prevention programs are now available that should be considered for broad implementation.
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... A number of specific preventive interventions can modify risk and promote protective factors that are linked to important determinants of mental, emotional, and behavioral health, especially in such areas as ­family functioning, early childhood experiences, and social skills. Interventions are also available to reduce the incidence of common disorders or problem behaviors, such as depression, substance use, and conduct disorder.
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... Like family adversities, poverty is a powerful risk factor, and its reduction would have far-reaching effects for multiple negative mental, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Numerous policies and programs target poverty as a risk factor by giving priority to low-income children and their families and by promoting resources for healthy functioning of those living in poverty through, for example, early childhood education programs, programs to strengthen families and schools, and efforts to reduce neighborhood violence.
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... • Evidence that improving family functioning and positive parenting serves as a mediator of positive outcomes and can moderate poverty-related risk. • Emerging evidence that school-based preventive interventions aimed at improv ing social and emotional outcomes can also improve academic outcomes.
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... (13-1) Mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people burden not only traditional mental health and substance abuse programs, but also multiple other service systems that support young people and their families -- most notably the education, child welfare, primary medical care, and juvenile justice systems.
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... Establishment of an ongoing national monitoring system that is capable of regular reporting on the incidence and prevalence of specific disorders, as well as the rates of exposure to key risk and protective factors, is needed to assess performance compared with national goals. Determining what is "evidence-based" is an important component of ensuring that these efforts have a positive impact on the lives of young people.
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... adaptation of existing interventions in response to community specific cultural characteristics; (2) preventive interventions designed based on research principles in response to community concerns; and (3)
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... In addition, most NIH research centers address single disorders. The ability of prevention research to approach issues from a comprehensive developmental perspective would be aided by cross-institute dialogue and by coordinated funding for interventions that address co-occurring outcomes, common risk and protective factors, and shared developmental pathways.
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... Substantial evidence has shown that the incidence of many disorders and problem behaviors can be reduced significantly, thereby justify­ing the need for dedicated efforts to refine these approaches. Recommendation: Research funders should establish parity between research on preventive interventions and treatment interventions.
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... (11-1) • Research funders should fund research on state- or community-wide imple mentation of interventions to promote mental, emotional, or behavioral health
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... (5-2) • Research funders, led by the National Institutes of Health, should fund research consortia to develop multidisciplinary teams with expertise in develop­mental neuroscience, developmental psychopathology, and preventive intervention science to foster translational research studies leading to more effective pre vention efforts.
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... (7-4) NOTE: The term "research funders" is used to refer to federal agencies and foundations who fund research on mental health promotion or prevention of MEB disorders.
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... Despite dramatic increases in prevention research, significant gaps remain regarding populations and set tings to be targeted. Given the modest effect sizes of some interventions, research funders are encouraged to support research to improve the breadth of the application and effectiveness of current evidence-based interventions and to develop new, more effective interventions.
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... adaptation of existing interventions in response to community-specific cultural characteristics; (2) preventive interventions designed based on research principles in response to community concerns; and (3)


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