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How Does the Fast Track Intervention Prevent Adverse Outcomes in Young Adulthood?
Trial report in Child development. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01653535 (Multisite Prevention of Conduct Problems), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Multisite Prevention of Conduct Problems
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.
- What Do We Know About the Stop Now and Plan Program? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of an Early Invention for Children and Youth with Conduct Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Pooled it
- The randomized controlled trial Fast Track multilevel intervention for children with early-emerging conduct problems breaks intergenerational transmission of violence across three generations.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Trial
- Fast Track Intervention Effects and Mechanisms of Action Through Established Adulthood.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Intergenerational Effects of the Fast Track Intervention on Next-Generation Child Outcomes: A Preregistered Randomized Clinical Trial.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Promoting Voter Turnout: an Unanticipated Impact of Early-Childhood Preventive Interventions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Trial
- The Fast Track intervention's impact on behaviors of despair in adolescence and young adulthood.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Trial
- Developing kind emotions in caring environments.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Competence and Coping in the Family Group Cognitive Behavioral (FGCB) Preventive Intervention: a Moderated Mediation Model in Youth at Risk for Depression.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Childhood conduct problems, potential snares in adolescence, and problematic substance use in Brazil.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Pathways of intergenerational transmission of depression: The role of the Fast Track intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Maladaptive Parenting and its Impact on Child Mental Health: Examining Cross-Cultural Mediating Pathways and Moderating Protective Factors.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Pathways from maternal depressive symptoms to children's academic performance in adolescence: A 13-year prospective-longitudinal study.Child development · 2022Article
- Children's social emotional competence in Pakistan and Sweden: Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Social Competence Scale (teacher edition).Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Increasing Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents: What Can We Learn from Neuroimaging Studies?Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Review
- A Cluster Randomized Trial of Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHSFrontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Community Interventions to Promote Mental Health and Social Equity.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- Promoting Self-Regulation in Young Children: The Role of Parenting Interventions.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2019Review
- THE PERSISTENCE OF PRESCHOOL EFFECTS FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH ADOLESCENCE.Journal of educational psychology · 2018Article
- More or less likely to offend? Young adults with a history of identified developmental language disorders.International journal of language & communication disorders · 2018Article
- Differential Third-Grade Outcomes Associated With Attending Publicly Funded Preschool Programs for Low-Income Latino Children.Child development · 2017Article
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Abstract
Numerous studies have shown that childhood interventions can foster improved outcomes in adulthood. Less well understood is precisely how-that is, through which developmental pathways-these interventions work. This study assesses mechanisms by which the Fast Track project (n = 891), a randomized intervention in the early 1990s for high-risk children in four communities (Durham, NC; Nashville, TN; rural PA; and Seattle, WA), reduced delinquency, arrests, and general and mental health service utilization in adolescence through young adulthood (ages 12-20). A decomposition of treatment effects indicates that about a third of Fast Track's impact on later crime outcomes can be accounted for by improvements in social and self-regulation skills during childhood (ages 6-11), such as prosocial behavior, emotion regulation, and problem solving. These skills proved less valuable for the prevention of general and mental health problems.
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