Ounce of Prevention

Sally M. Hage is Professor of Psychology at Springfield College, USA. She is an accomplished scholar in the fields of prevention and counseling psychology and has a range of clinical experiences with culturally diverse youth, college students, and adults. She is an APA fellow, co-author of Best Practices in Prevention (2013), and founding editor of The Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion (JPHP).

• 1. The practice of prevention: introduction and overview Sally M. Hage and Mary Iellamo; 2. Best practices for the evaluation of prevention programs Maureen E. Kenny and Lisa De La Rue; 3. What works in prevention practice Keith C. Herman and Wendy Reinke; 4. Culturally relevant prevention interventions for African American children and adolescents Stephanie Coard; 5. Preventative services and programming for marginalized children and youth: city connects Mary Walsh; 6. Systemic interventions to promote well-being in ethnic minority students attending k-12 schools Elizabeth Vera, Chelsea Yanuaria and Claire Furtado; 7. Building race-centered trauma responsive schools: one path toward justice in education Christopher T. H. Liang; 8. Ecological and developmental approaches to reducing substance use and related harms among emerging adults Ellen L. Vaughan, Evelyn Claire Williams, Micheal Garza and Lauren E. Adams; 9. Building action from awareness movements Colin Bass; 10. Best practices in building comprehensive strategies to prevent sexual violence for college-age students Patricia Cook-Craig; 11. The college connection: a window of opportunity Genevieve E. Chandler and Jim Helling; 12. Empowering mothers and promoting resilience in children exposed to intimate partner violence Sandra A. Graham-Bermann; 13. Interventions to promote culturally sensitive health care within black communities Carolyn M. Tucker; 14. PIER: a clinical/epidemiologic system for prevention of the psychoses William. McFarlane, Donna Downing, Rebecca Jaynes, Alexander Kopelowicz, Yat Ming Jude Leung, Sarah Lynch, Lisa Sloat, Barbara Stuart and Barbara C. Walsh; 15. Retirement transition as a preventive transition target Robert K. Conyne; 16. Future directions in the practice of prevention: the road Ahead Sally M. Hage and Sean DeMartino; 17. Resources for the practice of prevention.

'This exceptional volume confirms the dictum that there cannot be psychological wellness without social fairness. By embracing a preventive approach to psychosocial problems, the authors aim to build capacity in individuals, schools, communities, and organizations – not just to strengthen people and settings, but also to address the injustices that are often the root cause of the problems many of us face. The data-driven, science-based, and practice-oriented approach used in this book will prove invaluable to students and practitioners of prevention alike. This is a most timely volume, chock-full of guidelines, resources, and up-to-date research. I am eager to use this book in my research, practice, and teaching.' Isaac Prilleltensky, University of Miami