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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Preventing Alcohol and Drug Misuse in Young People:Adaption and testing of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14(SFP10-14) for use in the United Kingdom

This report presents the results of the adaptation process and exploratory pilot study of the Strengthening Families Programme SFP10-14 materials for use in the United Kingdom.

The Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (SFP10-14) is a seven session video based family skills training programme designed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for alcohol and substance misuse, depression, violence and aggression, delinquency and school failure in The SFP10-14 has been evaluated for primary prevention effectiveness with young people and their parents living in mainly rural areas in Iowa, U.S.A. (Spoth et al 2001a; Spoth et al 2001b).

Whilst initial reports of implementation of the SFP10-14 in the UK are valuable it has been recognised that the US SFP10-14 programme materials and approach might need to be adapted to meet the needs of a UK audience and that a more systematic approach to evaluation of SFP10-14 in the UK was needed (Coombes et al 2006). This report presents the results of the adaptation process and exploratory pilot study of the adapted SFP10-14 materials and approach in the UK.

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