EUSPR Conference – Speaker Presentations

EUSPR Members and 2013 Conference attendees

Plenary Speaker Presentations

Please see below for the PDFs of the presentations from the plenary speakers.

Plenary Session 1
i) For Whom do they work? Understanding moderators of outcome in family and parenting interventions (Prof Frances Gardner, University of Oxford, UK)
ii) The influence of gender on moderating prevention outcomes (Dr Federica Vigna-Taglianti, University of Torino, IT)

Plenary Session 2 – Contextual factors affecting prevention
i) Implementing the Good Behavior Game: A Universal Prevention Strategy to Promote Student Success in the Classroom and Beyond (Dr Jeanne Poduska, USA)
ii) Experience of implementing Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 in Poland (Dr Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn, PL)
iii) Contextual factors affecting prevention Implementing “Communities That Care – CTC” in Germany (Mr Frederick Groeger-Roth, DE)

Conference Chair’s Plenary
i) Unpacking the black box: Engineering more potent behavioral interventions using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy, MOST (Prof Linda Collins, Penn State University, USA)
ii) The Economics of Prevention (Dr Franco Sassi, OECD)

Parallel Speaker Presentations

Please see below for the PDFs of the presentations from the parallel speakers.

Session 1.1
i) A nationwide effort to prevent conduct problems in children and adolescents in Norway: Do age and gender affect effectiveness? (John Kjøbli)
ii) Effectiveness of Strengthening Families Program for boys and girls (Cátia Magalhães) – This presentation is not yet available, please check again later.
iii) Programme fidelity in a large pragmatic trial: findings from a process evaluation of the Strengthening Families Programme 10 ‐ 14UK (SFP10 ‐ 14UK) (Jeremy Segrott)
iv) Primary Prevention on Mental Health In Brazil: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and the Perspective of Experts (Samia Abreu, Sheila Giardini Murta)

Session 1.2
i) Can school-based prevention programs reduce health inequalities? The example of Unplugged, from research to practice (Federica Vigna-Taglianti)
ii) Prevention Programmes can reduce Social Inequalities in Health? (Daria Buscemi)
iii) Are they equally effective in distributing parenting programs? Parental outcomes for different sectors of care (Martin Bergström)
iv) How can we make evidence-based programmes more socially inclusive? (Nick Axford)

Session 1.3
i) Alcohol prevention in the Netherlands; Differential effects of baseline drinking status (Ina M Koning)
ii) The implementation and dissemination of an evidence-based program: the LifeSkills Training Lombardia (Veronica Velasco)
iii) Factors mediating the effectiveness of a school-based intervention to prevent substance use in adolescence (“Unplugged”) (Federica Vigna-Taglianti

Session 2.1
i) Preventing alcohol misuse in young people: implementation, feasibility and acceptability of a primary ‐ school ‐ based intervention with a family component ‐ the Kids, Adults Together (KAT) Programme (Jeremy Segrott)
ii) A study on predictors of prevention programs effectiveness (Josipa Mihic)
iii) Towards a better start: using science to improve outcomes for children aged 0-3 (Nick Axford) – This presentation is not yet available, please check again later.

Session 2.2
i) Implementation integrity of parenting programs. What aspect is more important (Fabrizia Giannotta)
ii) Narrative as a Promising Adaptation to Substance Use Prevention Curricula (Michelle Miller-Day) – This presentation is not yet available, please check again later.
iii) Implementation Quality, Real World Adaptations, and Implications for Student Engagement in a Classroom-Based Prevention Curriculum (Michelle Miller-Day) – This presentation is not yet available, please check again later.

Session 2.3
i) Oral Health among socio-economically deprived children in Austria. Recommendations for action to reach the target group (Bianca Langmann) – This presentation was not presented at the conference.
ii) Universal Program to Prevent Future Use of Cannabis: The need for new ways to approach parents in schools from a drug preventive perspective: Theory and consumer satisfaction of a new universal prevention program (Nikolaus Koutakis)
iii) The role of the Mentor International Prevention Hub in promoting global awareness of practice, providers and diversity in the field of substance abuse prevention (Jeff Lee)

Session 3.1
i) Validating school and comunitybased programs for prevention of abusive use of alcohol, tobacco, crack (and other drugs)
(Roberto Tykanori; Raquel Turci Pedroso)
ii) Fidelity as a moderator of programme success: strengthening influencing factors (Sarah Blower)
iii) Study of implementation quality of prevention programs in Croatia (Miranda Novak)

Session 3.2
i) Trajectories of Adolescent Marijuana Use: A Retrospective Longitudinal Analysis (William D Crano)
ii) Adult outcomes of multiple risk behaviour in adolescence (Daniel Hale) – This presentation is not available in an online format.
iii) The potential impact of recanting on the assessment of prevention outcomes (Andrew Percy)

Session 3.3
i) Importance of key people readiness for prevention in ensuring prevention effectiveness – (Josipa Basic)
ii) School ‐ based Prevention of Risk Behaviour: proposed structure, scope, and content of the Comprehensive Preventive Programme for elementary schools in the Czech Republic (Michal Miovsky)
iii) Prevention Platform for NGOs – How to Improve Quality of Prevention in Slovenia (Matej Košir)

Lunch Session Presentations

Please see below for the PDFs of the presentations from the lunch session speakers.

14th November – Day 1

i) Post-graduate Student Forum

ii) Special interest group on Screentime related prevention research

15th November – Day 2

i) Discussion of prevention research priorities in the USA and Europe

Advancing Prevention Science at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (Harold Perl, Chief, Prevention Research Branch, NIDA, USA)
EU-funded prevention research: current situation and future developments (Maria Moreira, EMCDDA)

 

ii) Symposium on: The transportability of evidence-based programmes.