We’re pleased to provide a number of useful resources for parents, clinicians, and teachers, including a searchable database of publications by OSLC scientists.
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- For the child readiness groups, 83% attended at least half of the classes; 42%
attended three-fourths of the sessions - For the parent groups, 47% attended at least half but only 22% attended threefourths
of the sessions - Summer attendance was better: Average attendance for children in the summer was
80%; this fell to 38% during the fall
Sonja K. Schoenwald, Ph.D.
OSLC is proud to announce that Sonja K. Schoenwald, Ph.D. will join our scientist team as a Senior Research Scientist. Dr. Schoenwald is among the leading clinical services researchers in the country on issues relating to the transportability, implementation, and dissemination of effective community-based treatments for youth with serious clinical problems and their families. She is a highly accomplished and well-known psychologist with over 100 peer-reviewed publications.
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Many Men’s Drinking Increases in Their 30’s, Study Shows
The study, “Growth, Persistence, and Desistance of Alcohol Use for At-Risk Men in Their 30s” was published online in Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research. The study was supported by funds from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The team of scientists, led by Senior Scientist Dr. Deborah Capaldi, studied approximately 200 men and their partners over 20 years and a particularly interesting finding was that, whereas wife or partner heavy drinking may effect men’s drinking, drunkenness of the men’s friends was a stronger predictor. This indicates that peer influence, thought to wane as men mature, may still be strong in their 30s.
Learn MoreOSLC Mourns the Loss of Founder Jerry Patterson
Dr. Patterson took great joy in mentoring upcoming researchers and he influenced the thinking of countless psychologists and practitioners. In Jerry’s last days, he expressed regret to be leaving before solving the many problems of negative reinforcement, a mechanism that plays a major function within coercion theory.
Register Guard Obituary – Gerald “Jerry” Roy Patterson