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Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds Youth Violence Prevention: Comparing Psychodramatic and Support Group Delivery Formats

Paul R. Smokowski* and Martica Bacallao

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: smokowsk{at}email.unc.edu.


  Abstract
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.

First published on December 3, 2008, doi:10.1177/1046496408326771

Small Group Research 2009;40:3.

A more recent version of this article appeared on February 1, 2009

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