The GREAT School Program
Problems addressed
Externalizing behaviors/problems
Effectiveness

No Effect

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No Effect

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Life periods served
Teenagers (14 to 17 years)
Where the program was applied
Education establishment
Country of application
United States
Description

This is a school-based intervention that adopts a social-cognitive approach for adolescents. The aim is to prevent school violence and discourage aggressive behavior.
The program consists of interventions integrated into the school curriculum to develop social skills, self-efficacy, and problem-solving strategies, and to reduce violent behavior.
The intervention is structured in 20 sessions and implemented by teachers trained by the program. Teachers use behavioral repetition techniques, experiential learning, mental rehearsal of skills, group activities, and didactic modalities.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that the program had no significant effect on individual norms for aggression (i.e., approval of aggressive behavior in other peers), on aggressive or violent behavior, or on strategies or beliefs supporting aggression or non-violence [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Simon, T. R., Ikeda, R., Smith, E. P., Reese, L., Rabiner, D., Miller-Johnson, S., Winn, D., Dodge, K. A., Asher, S., Horne, A., Orpinas, P., Martin, R., Quinn, W. H., Tolan, P., Gorman-Smith, D., Henry, D., Gay, F., Schoeny, M., Farrell, A. D., . . . & Allison, K. W. (2008). The multisite violence prevention project: Impact of a universal school-based violence prevention program on social-cognitive outcomes. Prevention Science: The Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 9(4), 231–244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-008-0101-1

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