Promoting Academic Competence and Behavioral Health in Public Schools: A Strategy of Systemic Concatenation of Empirically Based Intervention Principles

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Thomas Dishion

Thomas Dishion, PhD, conducts research in developmental psychopathology and intervention science. He is a professor in Child Clinical Psychology at Arizona State University, and a research scientist and founder of the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon. He is interested in understanding how children's relationships with parents and peers influence the development of problem behavior in children and adolescents. His recent research interests the application of social neuroscience methods to understanding the interpersonal and interpersonal mechanisms underlying self-regulations. His work focuses on applying models of developmental processes to the design of preventive and clinical interventions that reduce conflict and distress in families and improve child and adolescent social and emotional adjustment. He and colleagues are developing and testing the Family Check-Up model of behavioral health in six randomized trials, including grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institue of Education Sciences. He has published over 150 scientific reports, a book for parents on family management, and three books for professionals working with troubled children and their families.