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Year Awarded: 2005
Project Leaders:
John S. Carlson, MSU Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology
and Special Education; Marta Kermiet, Mental Health Services, Capital
Area Community Services Inc.; Jed Magen, Department of Psychiatry,
MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine; Teresa Spitzer, Capital Area
Community Services Inc.; John R. Taylor, MSU Department of Psychology;
Lucy McClintock, Capital Area Community Services Inc.
Project Description:
Many issues remain in the application of evidence-based treatments
into practice. The purpose of this research project is to investigate
the effectiveness, acceptability, and integrity of an evidence-based
parent and teacher-training program within an at-risk, community-based
Head Start program. Eight "at-risk" classrooms will be
identified for involvement in this project based on classroom norms
found from the completion of a universal screening procedure (N=1400
students across 87 classrooms) involving the Devereux Early Childhood
Assessment (DECA) parent rating scale. Four classrooms will be assigned
to a control condition. Four will be assigned to receive the teacher
and parent training programs. Effectiveness data will be gathered
across three levels: the child (N= 120), the teacher (N=24), and
the classroom (N=8). Acceptability will be measured via a standardized
treatment evaluation measure. Integrity will be calculated based
on intervention homework completion rates and worksheets completed
within the self-administered manuals. Study results will be disseminated
to Head Start staff and administration. In addition, findings will
be shared with state and national constituents. Additional funding
sources will be sought to carry out the universal implementation
of these interventions across all Head Start classrooms affiliated
with Capital Area Community Services, Inc and other regional programs.
In addition, funding supports will be sought to follow these at-risk
preschoolers into early elementary school to more closely examine
academic and behavioral outcomes.
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