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Overview

Linda Dusenbury is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and focuses their research within the social sciences, particularly in education and clinical psychology. Their work primarily explores topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, youth development and social support, early childhood education and development, as well as education discipline and inequality.

Their recent publications include two papers: Systemic social and emotional learning: Promoting educational success for all preschool to high school students (2020, American Psychologist) and State education policies as a critical component of systemic SEL: Roger Weissberg's vision and continuing impact (2025, Social and Emotional Learning Research Practice and Policy).

Linda Dusenbury has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Joseph L. Mahoney
  • Roger P. Weissberg
  • Mark T. Greenberg
  • Robert J. Jagers
  • Karen Niemi

Their work has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • American Psychologist
  • Social and Emotional Learning Research Practice and Policy

Their studies are situated in the subfields of education, clinical psychology, and safety research.

Best Publications

  • A review of research on fidelity of implementation: implications for drug abuse prevention in school settings

    Linda Dusenbury;Rosalind Brannigan;Mathea Falco;William B. Hansen

  • Long-term follow-up results of a randomized drug abuse prevention trial in a white middle-class population

    Gilbert J. Botvin;Eli Baker;Linda Dusenbury;Elizabeth M. Botvin

  • Preventing adolescent drug abuse through a multimodal cognitive-behavioral approach: results of a 3-year study.

    Gilbert J. Botvin;Eli Baker;Linda Dusenbury;Stephanie Tortu

  • Component social support processes: comments and integration.

    Kenneth Heller;Ralph W. Swindle;Linda Dusenbury

  • Eleven Components of Effective Drug Abuse Prevention Curricula

    Linda Dusenbury;Mathea Falco

  • Quality of implementation: developing measures crucial to understanding the diffusion of preventive interventions

    Linda Dusenbury;Rosalind Brannigan;William B. Hansen;John Walsh

  • Systemic social and emotional learning: Promoting educational success for all preschool to high school students.

    Joseph L Mahoney;Roger P Weissberg;Mark T Greenberg;Linda Dusenbury

  • Environmental and Policy Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Through Physical Activity: Issues and Opportunities

    Abby C. King;Robert W. Jeffery;Fred Fridinger;Linda Dusenbury

  • Substance abuse prevention: competence enhancement and the development of positive life options.

    Linda Dusenbury;Gilbert J. Botvin

  • Smoking prevention among urban minority youth: assessing effects on outcome and mediating variables.

    Gilbert J. Botvin;Linda Dusenbury;Eli Baker;Susan James-Ortiz

  • A skills training approach to smoking prevention among Hispanic youth.

    Gilbert J. Botvin;Linda Dusenbury;Eli Baker;Susan James-Ortiz

  • Nine Critical Elements of Promising Violence Prevention Programs

    Linda Dusenbury;Mathea Falco;Antonia Lake;Rosalind Brannigan

  • A Psychosocial Approach to Smoking Prevention for Urban Black Youth

    G J Botvin;H W Batson;S Witts-Vitale;V Bess

  • Smoking behavior of adolescents exposed to cigarette advertising.

    Botvin Gj;Goldberg Cj;Botvin Em;Dusenbury L

  • The false consensus effect: predicting adolescents' tobacco use from normative expectations.

    Gilbert J. Botvin;Elizabeth M. Botvin;Eli Baker;Linda Dusenbury

  • CORRELATES AND PREDICTORS OF SMOKING AMONG BLACK ADOLESCENTS

    Gilbert J. Botvin;Eli Baker;Catherine J. Goldberg;Linda Dusenbury

  • Ethnicity and Psychosocial Factors in Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Adolescence

    Barbara A. Bettes;Linda Dusenbury;Jon Kerner;Susan James-Ortiz

  • Predictors of smoking prevalence among New York Latino youth.

    L Dusenbury;J F Kerner;E Baker;G Botvin

  • A Review of the Evaluation of 47 Drug Abuse Prevention Curricula Available Nationally

    Linda Dusenbury;Mathea Falco;Antonia Lake

  • Factors promoting cigarette smoking among black youth: A causal modeling approach

    Gilbert J. Botvin;Eli Baker;Elizabeth M. Botvin;Linda Dusenbury

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilbert J. Botvin
Gilbert J. Botvin Cornell University
William B. Hansen
William B. Hansen University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Christopher L. Ringwalt
Christopher L. Ringwalt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Roger P. Weissberg
Roger P. Weissberg University of Illinois at Chicago
Jennifer A. Epstein
Jennifer A. Epstein Cornell University
Abby C. King
Abby C. King Stanford University
Steven P. Schinke
Steven P. Schinke Columbia University
Mark T. Greenberg
Mark T. Greenberg Pennsylvania State University

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