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Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds Youth Violence Prevention

Comparing Psychodramatic and Support Group Delivery Formats

Paul R. Smokowski

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, smokowsk{at}email.unc.edu

Martica Bacallao

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

This study evaluates the efficacy of two implementation strategies for Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds (EDM), a prevention program for Latino adolescents, measured 1 year after program completion. Using an experimental research design, 81 Latino families were randomly assigned to two formats of EDM prevention that used identical session themes: 56 families attended action-oriented skill training and 25 attended unstructured support groups. When EDM was delivered in action-oriented family groups using psychodrama techniques, the program was associated with lower rates of oppositional defiant behavior, anxious depression, parent-adolescent conflict, and total problems in Latino immigrant adolescents. A follow-up 1 year after program completion showed that action-oriented groups maintained superior effects when compared to support groups. The authors discuss implications for practice and future research.

Key Words: Latinos • acculturation • youth violence prevention • program evaluation • group intervention

This version was published on February 1, 2009

Small Group Research, Vol. 40, No. 1, 3-27 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1046496408326771
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