What Works for Promoting Positive Behavior in Children and Adolescents

Two new Child Trends (US) fact sheets review evaluated programs to identify what works to promote positive social skills and prevent externalizing behavior. Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development.

• What works for promoting and enhancing positive social skills: lessons from experimental evaluations of programs and interventions
  
• What works for acting-out (externalizing) behavior: Lessons from experimental evaluations of social interventions