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Thomas Achenbach and Craig Edelbrock
- We conducted a large-scale investigation together.
- We found adolescents from a lower SES background had more problems than adolescents from higher SES backgrounds.
- We found lower SES adolescents' problems were externalizing behaviors.
- We also argue that higher SES adolescents' problems were internalizing behaviors.
Joy Dryfoos
- I reviewed the role schools play in the prevention of drug abuse.
- I believe schools must intervene sooner rather than later.
- I found schools need to use a kindergarten through 12th grade approach.
- I feel social skills training is also important.
- I also feel peer-led programs are often more effective than teacher-led programs.
James Garbarino
- I conducted research on violence and youth.
- I feel parents ignore a lot of their children's troubled behaviors.
- I interviewed many youth killers.
- I have yet to come to an exact conclusion as to why youths kill.
- I did, however, find a spiritual emptiness in those youth killers I interviewed.
Norman Garmezy
- I am an expert in the field resilience.
- I studied the children of depressed mothers and was surprised to find some of the children were healthy and well-functioning.
- I believe resilience is the ability to have healthy functioning after experiencing adversity.
David Johnson and Roger Johnson
- We did research together.
- I believe schools need to offer conflict resolution training.
- I developed an example of the total student body approach.
- My program is called Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers.
- My program involves both mediation and negotiation strategies.
Lloyd Johnston, Patrick O'Malley, and Gerald Bachman
- We did research together.
- Since 1975 we have worked at the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan.
- We monitor the drug use of high school seniors.
- We also surveyed drug use by 8th and 10th graders.
- We concluded that "generational forgetting" contributed to the rise of drug use in the 1990's by adolescents.
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