Kevin P Haggerty
Biographic Data
| ID | 122722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin P Haggerty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin P |
| FAMILY NAME | Haggerty |
| SIGNATURE | HAGGERTY K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6210-6156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 268 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Qualitative exploration of experiences with the adolescent community reinforcement approach with assertive continuing care among youth being released from juvenile incarceration
Friends in Our Lives
Mentoring programs are popular interventions to support holistic development for young people. One specific model of mentoring that has emerged over the past few decades in the United States is professional mentoring. Research has illustrated that this model of mentoring may be particularly helpful for young people who could benefit from extra support in their lives that a volunteer mentoring program does not have the capacity to provide. Despite…
Implementation Fidelity of a Virtual Adaptation of the Guiding Good Choices Program
Offering evidence‐based parenting interventions to caregivers virtually has the potential to increase the reach and public health impact of interventions. As virtual adaptations to evidence‐based interventions increase, attention must be paid to implementation fidelity, as high fidelity is associated with better program outcomes. This study examined implementation fidelity of a virtual adaptation of the family‐based Guiding Good Choices program d…
Community-Based Child Labor Trafficking Prevention in Ghana
There are 152 million children in the world who are victims of child laborers are found in Africa; 73 million are involved in hazardous labor. Almost half of child labor (72.1 million) is found in Africa. One in five children in Africa (19.6%) is a child laborer, whilst prevalence in other regions such as Arab States, Asia, and Europe is between three percent and seven percent (International Labor Organization). This study evaluates a community-b…
Family, mental health, and placement outcomes of a low-cost preventive intervention for youth in foster care
Fostering Higher Education
Many youth with foster care experience have goals of completing a postsecondary program. While the past two decades have seen a great deal of growth in services, supports, and policies to help youth achieve these goals, the evidence base for postsecondary support programs remains limited, and the child welfare system continues to struggle to find ways to meaningfully support youth with foster care experience in meeting their goals. The purpose of…
Predictors of Participation in a Voluntary Parenting Program for Foster Caregivers of Teens
The Usual, Racialized, Suspects
Research on race and policing indicates that Black Americans experience a greater frequency of police contacts, discretionary stops, and police harassment when stops occur. Yet, studies examining the long-term consequences of police contact with young people have not examined whether criminal justice consequences of police contact differ by race. We address this issue by examining whether police encounters with children and adolescents predict ar…
Characteristics and competencies of successful resource parents working in Indian country
Evaluation of a Brief Foster Parent/ Case Worker Training to Support Relationship Building Skills and Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth in Care
LGTBQ+ youth in foster care need unique support and acceptance; however, few case workers and caregivers receive specialized training. To address this, the Connecting: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) eLearning was developed. This evaluation assesses whether attitudes and behavioral intentions regarding LGBTQ+ youth improved as a result of this training. Caregivers and child welfare professionals showed growth in many are…
Proximal outcomes of Connecting, an evidence-based, family-focused prevention program for caregivers of adolescents in foster care
Parents’ Perceptions of Adolescent Exposure to Marijuana Following Legalization in Washington State
Parents' experiences in Washington State provide valuable lessons for social work practitioners, policymakers and those developing preventive interventions. Prevention efforts and public health messaging should begin before legalization takes effect to support parents in preparing for changes in their social and physical environments, and should seek to incorporate parenting strategies to monitor and intervene when children are exposed to marijua…
Systematic literature review of foster and adoptive caregiver factors for increasing placement stability and permanency
Placement stability and permanency are key goals for children in foster and adoptive care. This study is a systematic review of the scholarly literature to better understand caregiver-related factors (e.g., characteristics, proficiencies) that contribute to permanency and placement stability, in order to provide a stronger foundation for developing and improving caregiver recruitment and training procedures. Our review of 29 qualifying scholarly …
Fidelity Assessment of a Social Work–Led Intervention Among Patients With Firearm Injuries
As a result of fidelity assessment findings, we refined intervention delivery to improve implementation fidelity including beginning to review cases of all patients each month, rather than focusing on patients in crisis. Our fidelity assessment process and findings offer insight into the challenges of implementing an intervention among patients with firearm injuries and highlights the value of monitoring intervention fidelity during an ongoing tr…
Assessing caregiver usability of the National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents
Promoting SBIRT Training for Social Work Students Across Field Settings
We report on our experience of implementing an interprofessional social work Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training program in which didactic content was integrated with field education opportunities to practice SBIRT in various settings. Mentored field instructors supervised SBIRT field learning activities in behavioral health clinics, primary care clinics, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry care, and mental h…
Assessing an Adapted Approach to Communities That Care for Child Maltreatment Prevention
Objective: Communities That Care (CTC) is an evidence-based community mobilization model designed to prevent problematic adolescent behaviors such as delinquency and substance use by organizing community coalitions that choose and implement evidence-based practices to address community-specific risk and protective factors. This paper presents findings from the evaluation of Keeping Families Together (KFT)—an adapted CTC approach that targets comm…
Supporting LGBTQ+ Foster Teens
Adapting the Friends of the Children programme for child welfare system‐involved families
Research has shown the importance of long‐term, caring adults for children in foster care. This paper reviews the Friends of the Children (FOTC) long‐term mentoring programme and how it was adapted to serve children and families with child welfare system involvement. This study's two research questions are (1) How do Friends (FOTC's paid professional mentors) currently work with, and in turn, have an impact on, child welfare‐involved families? an…
Using the Social Development Strategy to Unleash the Power of Prevention
Disproportionate poverty rates among racial minority populations contribute to disparities in education and physical and behavioral health. To meet the Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth by reducing health disparities in behavioral outcomes by 20%, we will need to address issues of poverty and inequality in the United States, which have widespread implications for youth development and the future of our society. This pape…
Translating Grand Challenges From Concept to Community
This article provides an example of how one social work school created a community partnership to translate grand challenges from concept to concrete local projects to meet Grand Challenges for Social Work goals. The Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth proposes that we have made sufficient scientific advances to—within a decade—reduce the incidence and prevalence of behavioral health problems among children, adolescents, a…
Incorporating self‐determination into substance abuse prevention programming for youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood
Youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood are at higher risk for alcohol and substance abuse disorders than general population youth. At the same time, these youths are often recipients of strong clinical intervention, often at levels considered unnecessary, for other mental health or behavioural challenges. Because of this, there is sometimes resistance from providers to offer services such as substance abuse prevention programming as it…
Feasibility of Connecting , a Substance-Abuse Prevention Program for Foster Teens and their Caregivers
Overall, program participation appeared to lead to stronger family management, better communication between teens and caregivers around monitoring and media use, teen participation in setting family rules, and decreased teen attitudes favorable to antisocial behavior. This small pilot study shows promising results for this adapted program
Professional and youth perspectives on higher education-focused interventions for youth transitioning from foster care
Parent training to reduce problem behaviors over the transition to high school
Racial Disparity in Police Contacts
Criminologists agree the race disparity in arrests cannot be fully explained by differences in criminal behavior. The authors examine social environment factors that may lead to racial differences in police contact in early adolescence, including family, peers, school, and community. Data are from 331 eighth-grade students. Blacks were almost twice as likely as Whites to report a police contact. Blacks reported more property crime but not more vi…
Opening the Black Box
The past decade has seen increasing recognition in prevention science of the need to move away from a black box approach to intervention evaluation and toward an approach that can elaborate on the mechanisms through which changes in the outcomes operate (Chen & Rossi, 1989; Durlak & Wells, 1997; Spoth et al., 1995). An approach that examines issues of program implementation is particularly critical in the design of efficacy studies of school‐base…
After-School Activities, Misbehavior in School, and Delinquency From the End of Elementary School Through the Beginning of High School
Annual survey data on 776 students from sixth through ninth grade were used to examine the relationships among after-school activities, misbehavior in school, and delinquency. The social development model hypothesizes that antisocial behavior in one developmental time period leads to less involvement in activities and interactions that have positive socializing influence in the next developmental time period. Although the overall correlations bet…
In search of connection
The Usual, Racialized, Suspects
Research on race and policing indicates that Black Americans experience a greater frequency of police contacts, discretionary stops, and police harassment when stops occur. Yet, studies examining the long-term consequences of police contact with young people have not examined whether criminal justice consequences of police contact differ by race. We address this issue by examining whether police encounters with children and adolescents predict ar…
A Controlled Parenting Skills Outcome Study Examining Individual Difference and Attendance Effects
Richard Spoth, Cleve Redmond, Kevin Haggerty, Thomas Ward, A Controlled Parenting Skills Outcome Study Examining Individual Difference and Attendance Effects, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 57, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 449-464
Professional and youth perspectives on higher education-focused interventions for youth transitioning from foster care
Racial Disparities in Early Criminal Justice Involvement
Influence of a Family‐Focused Substance Use Preventive Intervention on Growth in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY) is a preventive intervention that targets parenting behaviors, family interaction patterns, and adolescent substance use, factors that have been shown to predict depression among teenagers. Effects of PDFY on trajectories of self‐reported adolescent depressive symptoms from 6th through 12th grade were examined. Latent growth curve modeling was used to analyze data from 429 rural adolescents from schools as…
Relationships Between Level and Change in Family, School, and Peer Factors During Two Periods of Adolescence and Problem Behavior at Age 19
Aggressive behavior among girls and boys during middle childhood
Using longitudinal data spanning early elementary through middle school, aggression behavior trajectory groups were identified for boys and girls. Early elementary school predictors of trajectory group membership were examined as well as whether trajectory group predicted physical aggression, covert delinquency, and substance use in 9th grade. Semiparametric group modeling identified aggression behavior trajectory groups. We identified four aggre…
Systematic literature review of foster and adoptive caregiver factors for increasing placement stability and permanency
Placement stability and permanency are key goals for children in foster and adoptive care. This study is a systematic review of the scholarly literature to better understand caregiver-related factors (e.g., characteristics, proficiencies) that contribute to permanency and placement stability, in order to provide a stronger foundation for developing and improving caregiver recruitment and training procedures. Our review of 29 qualifying scholarly …
Child and Parent Report of Parenting as Predictors of Substance Use and Suspensions From School
This study examined how child and parent reports of parenting were related to early adolescent substance use and school suspensions. Data were from two time points six months apart on 321 families with an eighth grade student attending one of five schools in the Pacific Northwest. Child- and parent-report measures of family management practices were moderately correlated ( r = .29). Child report, but not parent report, of more positive family man…
Unique Influence of Mothers and Fathers on Their Children's Antisocial Behavior
The social development model (Catalano & Hawkins, 1996) was adapted to examine the unique influence of mothers and fathers on their children's antisocial behavior. Analyses examined 325 families with sixth-grade children. Structural equation modeling was used to assess unique influences of constructs specific to mothers or fathers. Multiple-group comparisons were conducted to identify differences in the relationships between constructs for daught…
Fostering Higher Education
Promoting relationship building and connection
Early Predictors of Adolescent Depression
This study examined the longitudinal relationship of early elementary predictors to adolescent depression 7 years later. The sample consisted of 938 students who have been part of a larger longitudinal study that started in 1993. Data collected from parents, teachers, and youth self-reports on early risk factors when students were in 1st and 2nd grade were compared to adolescent self-reported depression 7 years later. Regression analyses were con…
Associations Between Changing Developmental Contexts and Risky Sexual Behavior in the Two Years Following High School
Description de l’implantation d’un programme de prévention des problèmes de comportement à l’adolescence
This paper describes a comprehensive approach to preventing a variety of adolescent problem behaviors, including drug use, delinquency, violence, school dropout and teenage pregnancy. The experimental intervention is designed to enhance protection and reduce risk for these adolescent problem behaviors. The project, Raising Healthy Children (RHC), extends earlier work conducted in the Seattle Social Development Project (Hawkins, Catalano, Morrison…
Adapting an evidence-based parenting program for child welfare involved teens and their caregivers
Using the Social Development Strategy to Unleash the Power of Prevention
Disproportionate poverty rates among racial minority populations contribute to disparities in education and physical and behavioral health. To meet the Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth by reducing health disparities in behavioral outcomes by 20%, we will need to address issues of poverty and inequality in the United States, which have widespread implications for youth development and the future of our society. This pape…
Promising parenting programmes for reducing adolescent problem behaviours
We propose that not all programs are of equal value, and suggest two simple criteria for selecting a parenting program with a high likelihood for positive outcomes. Furthermore, although this review is not exhaustive, the five examples of EBPs offer a good start for policymakers and practitioners seeking to implement effective programs in their communities. Thus, this paper offers practical suggestions for those grappling with investments in chil…
Observed parenting behavior with teens
Previous reports supporting measurement equality between European American and African American families have often focused on self-reported risk factors or observed parent behavior with young children. This study examines equality of measurement of observer ratings of parenting behavior with adolescents during structured tasks; mean levels of observed parenting; and predictive validity of teen self-reports of antisocial behaviors and beliefs usi…
Identifying Trajectories of Adolescents’ Depressive Phenomena
Deviance among the children of heroin addicts in treatment
Criminological theories and research have stressed the importance of family factors in understanding delinquency and substance use. Much work has documented the elevated risk of various problem behaviors faced by the children of drug users, as well as the factors that mediate their risk. This study examined a unique sample of high‐risk children whose parents were receiving methadone treatment for opiate addiction. A model was developed and tested…
Mobilizing communities to reduce risks for drug abuse
A Controlled Parenting Skills Outcome Study Examining Individual Difference and Attendance Effects
Richard Spoth, Cleve Redmond, Kevin Haggerty, Thomas Ward, A Controlled Parenting Skills Outcome Study Examining Individual Difference and Attendance Effects, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 57, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 449-464
Effects of a preventive parent-training intervention on observed family interactions
Children are especially vulnerable to the initiation of substance use and other problem behaviors as they move from childhood into early adolescence. This is true for children living in urban and rural areas alike. A number of family-related factors have been identified that contribute to the risk for or protection against such problems. This article reports the results of an experimental test of the effects of Preparing for the Drug Free Years (…
Deviance among the children of heroin addicts in treatment
Criminological theories and research have stressed the importance of family factors in understanding delinquency and substance use. Much work has documented the elevated risk of various problem behaviors faced by the children of drug users, as well as the factors that mediate their risk. This study examined a unique sample of high‐risk children whose parents were receiving methadone treatment for opiate addiction. A model was developed and tested…
Bonding in a High-Risk and a General Sample of Children
Risk moderation of parent and child outcomes in a preventive intervention
Family risk-related variations in proximal parent and young adolescent outcomes of a universal family-focused preventive intervention were examined using a cumulative index of risk incorporating sociodemographic characteristics and social-emotional adjustment measures. Results of an initial investigation involving 209 families of young adolescents suggested that intervention efficacy was largely unrelated to cumulative family risk. These findings…
Opening the Black Box
The past decade has seen increasing recognition in prevention science of the need to move away from a black box approach to intervention evaluation and toward an approach that can elaborate on the mechanisms through which changes in the outcomes operate (Chen & Rossi, 1989; Durlak & Wells, 1997; Spoth et al., 1995). An approach that examines issues of program implementation is particularly critical in the design of efficacy studies of school‐base…
Policing the Risk Society
Predictors of Participation in Parenting Workshops
Unique Influence of Mothers and Fathers on Their Children's Antisocial Behavior
The social development model (Catalano & Hawkins, 1996) was adapted to examine the unique influence of mothers and fathers on their children's antisocial behavior. Analyses examined 325 families with sixth-grade children. Structural equation modeling was used to assess unique influences of constructs specific to mothers or fathers. Multiple-group comparisons were conducted to identify differences in the relationships between constructs for daught…
Past and Future Research on the Crack Cocaine–domestic Violence Link
In the March 2005 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (p468), El-Bassel et al. state that their study the first longitudinal investigation of the causal relationship between frequent drug use and IPV [intimate partner violence] among a random sample of women attending MMTPs [methadone maintenance treatment programs]. El-Bassel and colleagues' report is an important contribution to the literature; however, this statement gives the incor…
Description de l’implantation d’un programme de prévention des problèmes de comportement à l’adolescence
This paper describes a comprehensive approach to preventing a variety of adolescent problem behaviors, including drug use, delinquency, violence, school dropout and teenage pregnancy. The experimental intervention is designed to enhance protection and reduce risk for these adolescent problem behaviors. The project, Raising Healthy Children (RHC), extends earlier work conducted in the Seattle Social Development Project (Hawkins, Catalano, Morrison…
Increases in Alcohol and Marijuana Use During the Transition Out of High School Into Emerging Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the effects of leaving home and going to college on changes in the frequency of alcohol use, heavy episodic drinking, and marijuana use shortly after leaving high school. We also examined how protective factors in late adolescence predict post-high school substance use and moderate the effects of leaving home and going to college. METHOD: Data came from subjects (N = 319; 53% male) interviewed at the end of 12th gra…
Participation in “Parents Who Care”
Aggressive behavior among girls and boys during middle childhood
Using longitudinal data spanning early elementary through middle school, aggression behavior trajectory groups were identified for boys and girls. Early elementary school predictors of trajectory group membership were examined as well as whether trajectory group predicted physical aggression, covert delinquency, and substance use in 9th grade. Semiparametric group modeling identified aggression behavior trajectory groups. We identified four aggre…
Teaching Parenting Skills in a Methadone Treatment Setting
Family factors significantly affect children’s risk of substance abuse, delinquency, and other problem behaviors (Arthur, Hawkins, Pollard, Catalano, & Baglioni, 2002). Children of substance abusers represent a particularly high-risk population. Prenatal exposure to addictive substances and the medical complications that may arise are important factors that, from conception, place this population at high risk of drug abuse and other problem behav…
Influence of a Family‐Focused Substance Use Preventive Intervention on Growth in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY) is a preventive intervention that targets parenting behaviors, family interaction patterns, and adolescent substance use, factors that have been shown to predict depression among teenagers. Effects of PDFY on trajectories of self‐reported adolescent depressive symptoms from 6th through 12th grade were examined. Latent growth curve modeling was used to analyze data from 429 rural adolescents from schools as…
After-School Activities, Misbehavior in School, and Delinquency From the End of Elementary School Through the Beginning of High School
Annual survey data on 776 students from sixth through ninth grade were used to examine the relationships among after-school activities, misbehavior in school, and delinquency. The social development model hypothesizes that antisocial behavior in one developmental time period leads to less involvement in activities and interactions that have positive socializing influence in the next developmental time period. Although the overall correlations bet…
Early Predictors of Adolescent Depression
This study examined the longitudinal relationship of early elementary predictors to adolescent depression 7 years later. The sample consisted of 938 students who have been part of a larger longitudinal study that started in 1993. Data collected from parents, teachers, and youth self-reports on early risk factors when students were in 1st and 2nd grade were compared to adolescent self-reported depression 7 years later. Regression analyses were con…
Racial Disparities in Early Criminal Justice Involvement
Identifying Trajectories of Adolescents’ Depressive Phenomena
Relationships Between Level and Change in Family, School, and Peer Factors During Two Periods of Adolescence and Problem Behavior at Age 19
Observed parenting behavior with teens
Previous reports supporting measurement equality between European American and African American families have often focused on self-reported risk factors or observed parent behavior with young children. This study examines equality of measurement of observer ratings of parenting behavior with adolescents during structured tasks; mean levels of observed parenting; and predictive validity of teen self-reports of antisocial behaviors and beliefs usi…
Associations Between Changing Developmental Contexts and Risky Sexual Behavior in the Two Years Following High School
Promoting relationship building and connection
Psychology (56 works) · Medicine (39 works) · Developmental psychology (32 works) · Psychiatry (29 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (24 works) · Clinical Psychology (23 works) · Nursing (22 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Intervention (counseling (16 works)