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Overview

Richard Spoth is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and psychology, with significant contributions to areas such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and community health and development.

The scientist's work spans several specialized subfields, including general health professions, clinical psychology, safety research, epidemiology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their investigations often address youth development and social support, prenatal substance exposure effects, and health policy implementation science.

Richard Spoth's recent publications include:

  • "State of the Art in Substance Use Prevention and Early Intervention: Applications to Pediatric Primary Care Settings" (2021) in Prevention Science
  • "Applying the PROSPER prevention delivery system with middle schools: Emerging adulthood effects on substance misuse and conduct problem behaviors through 14 years past baseline" (2022) in Child Development
  • "Strengthening the Power of Evidence-Based Prevention in Cooperative Extension: A Capacity-Building Framework for Translation Science-Driven Behavioral Health" (2020) in Child & Youth Care Forum
  • "Predictors of Attendance Patterns in a Universal Family-Based Preventive Intervention Program" (2021) in The Journal of Primary Prevention
  • "Collateral Benefits of Evidence-Based Substance Use Prevention Programming During Middle-School on Young Adult Romantic Relationship Functioning" (2021) in Prevention Science

The common venues for Richard Spoth's publications include:

  • Prevention Science
  • Child & Youth Care Forum
  • UNC Libraries
  • Child Development
  • The Journal of Primary Prevention

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Mark E. Feinberg
  • Gregory M. Fosco
  • Ty A. Ridenour
  • Cleve Redmond
  • Shichen Fang

Best Publications

  • Analyzing data from experimental studies: A latent variable structural equation modeling approach.

    Daniel W. Russell;Jeffrey H. Kahn;Richard Spoth;Elizabeth M. Altmaier

  • Randomized trial of brief family interventions for general populations: adolescent substance use outcomes 4 years following baseline.

    Richard L. Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Chungyeol Shin

  • The Strong African American families program: Translating research into prevention programming

    Gene H. Brody;Velma McBride Murry;Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons

  • PROSPER community-university partnership model for public education systems: capacity-building for evidence-based, competence-building prevention.

    Richard Spoth;Mark Greenberg;Karen Bierman;Cleve Redmond

  • The Strengthening Families Program for the prevention of delinquency and drug use.

    Karol L. Kumpfer;Virginia Molgaard;Richard Spoth

  • Direct and indirect latent-variable parenting outcomes of two universal family-focused preventive interventions: extending a public health-oriented research base.

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Chungyeol Shin

  • Research on Family Engagement in Preventive Interventions: Toward Improved Use of Scientific Findings in Primary Prevention Practice

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond

  • Longitudinal substance initiation outcomes for a universal preventive intervention combining family and school programs.

    Richard L. Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Linda Trudeau;Chungyeol Shin

  • Addressing Core Challenges for the Next Generation of Type 2 Translation Research and Systems: The Translation Science to Population Impact (TSci Impact) Framework

    Richard Spoth;Louise A. Rohrbach;Mark Greenberg;Philip Leaf

  • Preventive Interventions Addressing Underage Drinking: State of the Evidence and Steps Toward Public Health Impact

    Richard L. Spoth;Michael Greenberg;Robert Turrisi

  • Barriers to Participation in Family Skills Preventive Interventions and Their Evaluations: A Replication and Extension

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Cathy Hockaday;Chung Yeol Shin

  • Brief family intervention effects on adolescent substance initiation: school-level growth curve analyses 6 years following baseline.

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Chungyeol Shin;Kari Azevedo

  • Substance-use outcomes at 18 months past baseline: the PROSPER Community-University Partnership Trial.

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Chungyeol Shin;Mark Greenberg

  • Universal family-focused interventions in alcohol-use disorder prevention: Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses of two interventions

    Richard L Spoth;Max Guyll;Susan X Day

  • Evaluation of a social contextual model of delinquency: a cross-study replication.

    Laura V. Scaramella;Rand D. Conger;Richard Spoth;Ronald L. Simons

  • Parent motivation to enroll in parenting skills programs: A model of family context and health belief predictors.

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond

  • Assessing a public health approach to delay onset and progression of adolescent substance use: latent transition and log-linear analyses of longitudinal family preventive intervention outcomes.

    R. Spoth;M. Lopez Reyes;C. Redmond;Chungyeol Shin

  • Family-Centered Preventive Intervention Science: Toward Benefits to Larger Populations of Children, Youth, and Families

    Richard L. Spoth;Kathryn A. Kavanagh;Thomas J. Dishion

  • Alcohol initiation outcomes of universal family-focused preventive interventions: one- and two-year follow-ups of a controlled study

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Heidi Lepper

  • A controlled parenting skills outcome study examining individual difference and attendance effects

    Richard Spoth;Cleve Redmond;Kevin Haggerty;Thomas Ward

  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecies The Synergistic Accumulative Effect of Parents' Beliefs on Children's Drinking Behavior

    Stephanie Madon;Max Guyll;Richard Spoth;Jennifer Willard

Frequent Co-Authors

Cleve Redmond
Cleve Redmond Iowa State University
Mark T. Greenberg
Mark T. Greenberg Pennsylvania State University
Mark E. Feinberg
Mark E. Feinberg Pennsylvania State University
W. Alex Mason
W. Alex Mason University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Kevin P. Haggerty
Kevin P. Haggerty University of Washington
J. David Hawkins
J. David Hawkins University of Washington
Jennifer A. Epstein
Jennifer A. Epstein Cornell University
Gilbert J. Botvin
Gilbert J. Botvin Cornell University
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Thomas Ashby Wills
Thomas Ashby Wills University of Hawaii at Manoa

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