Current OSLC ProjectsAdolescent Decision-Making StudyA study to learn what contributes to healthy decision making in adolescent girls.
Center for Drug Abuse Prevention in the Child Welfare SystemScientists and national experts integrate knowledge to help fill the gaps in drug abuse prevention research, practice, and policy.
The Child StudyWe are conducting a randomized intervention trial to test the impact of a mentoring program. Early elementary-aged children, their caregivers, and mentors will be interviewed in the study.
CouplesA life-span perspective of young men’s romantic partner selection.
Early Experience, Stress Neurobiology, and Prevention ScienceA grant funding a network of scientists studying the effects of stressful early environments on the developing brain and interventions that can remediate these effects.
Early Growth and Development Study: Phase IA nationwide study of the relationship between heredity and family environment on child development.
Early Growth and Development Study: Phase IIA nationwide study on understanding the relationship between heredity, the prenatal environment, and family environment in child development.
Early Growth and Development Study: HealthA nationwide study of important developments in understanding the relationship between heredity and family environment in child physical growth and health.
Early Growth and Development Study: NIMHThis study examines the interplay between genetic, prenatal, and postnatal environmental influences on early pathways to conduct, anxiety, and depressive behaviors by interviewing parents about child behavior and symptoms between ages 6 and 8 years.
Family R&RThis is a longitudinal study of 180 children and their families. The study is being conducted in collaboration with the Relief Nursery in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan areas in Oregon.
Girls’ Longterm Outcomes—Suicidality and Depression Study (GLO-SADS)This study is a longitudinal prospective study that follows 164 adolescent girls who were involved in a randomized clinical trial of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) to young adulthood.
Healthy Family ProjectAn investigation of parent-management training efficacy with a sample from a rural Oregon county population receiving court-ordered supervision.
Health Opportunity for Motor and Child Emotion Function (HOME)Project HOME will develop and pilot an emotion-focused intervention to support incarcerate mothers as they leave prison and reunite with their children in the community
Kids in Transition to School (KITS)The Kids in Transition to School (KITS) foster care project is a 5 year randomized efficacy trial of a preventive intervention to enhance psychosocial and academic school readiness in foster children as they enter school.
Kids in Transition to School - Early Childhood Education Program (KARES)The Kids in Transition to School -Early Childhood Education project is a randomized efficacy trial of a preventive intervention to enhance psychosocial and academic school readiness in children with developmental disabilities as they enter kindergarten.
The Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project - IIA study of the delivery and a test of the adapted version of OSLC’s Parent Management Training to Latino families.
The Parent Child StudyA test of the impact of parent management training on children of incarcerated parents.
Preventing Behavior and Health Problems for Foster TeensAimed at testing the efficacy of an intervention designed to strengthen the parenting skills of foster parents and to increase social skills related to preventing health-risking behaviors for youth in foster homes.
ProTeensThe ProTeens study is a three-year study designed to test the efficacy of an integrated, family-centered preventive intervention for adolescent boys involved in the juvenile justice system through the Department of Youth Services.
Oregon Youth Study 2This study will shed new light on the persistence and desistance of use of alcohol and other substances in early midadulthood for men from at-risk backgrounds.
OSLC Relationship Study 3This study is a follow-up of two randomized intervention studies The OSLC Relationship Study 1 and The OSLC Relationship Study 2 aimed at improving adjustment and reducing delinquency during adolescence.
Students with Involved Families and Teachers (SWIFT)SWIFT is a 3-year development project of an intervention to support student transitions from day-treatment school settings to public school settings.
Three Generational StudyA study of the parenting practices of the young parents, and the association of the father's parenting style to that of his own parents; and and examination of child characteristics such as temperament, attachment, behavior problems and cognitive ability.
Women’s Substance Use and Intimate Partner ViolenceDomestic violence is the leading cause of injuries to women aged 15-44 years.
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The Social Learning Process“We believe that personality is the product of a social learning process, involving interactions with others, which begins in childhood and continues throughout life. Perhaps not all personality, but an important part of what we think of as personality traits is taught in the same way that arithmetic is taught, with the difference that the teacher and pupil are not aware that the process is going on."” Gerald R. Patterson
About the OSLCThe Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) is located in the Eugene-Springfield, Oregon metropolitan area. The center was established in 1977. The research group that founded OSLC was started by clinical psychologist Gerald R. Patterson in the late 1950s while he worked as a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. READ MORE >>
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