APSY 6348 Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Children, Families, and Communities

This course has been designed to provide an overview of key issues that arise in the development, implementation, evaluation, and scaling of prevention and intervention programs that intersect with the field of psychology. Key issues include the challenges and opportunities of research-practice partnerships, the critical role of theories of change, diverse perspectives on evidence, and unintended consequences of good intentions. Exemplar prevention and intervention programs are used to illustrate and analyze thes key issues using theoretical, conceptual, and empirical works from psychological science. The key learning goals for APSY6348 are: 1. Improve abilities to use psychological science as a tool for helping design, implement, and evaluate intervention strategies. 2. Understand common challenges with intervention programs and practices, and build skills to analyze and address these challenges using psychological science. 3. Increate knowledge of exemplar intervention strategies, including knowledge of generalizable principles evident across exemplars. 4. Improve understanding of the ways in which intervention development, implementation, and evaluation takes places at the intersection of science, practice, and policy; and of the intersecting interests of stake-holders in these areas.