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Compilation of

Evidence-BasedFamilySkillsTrainingProgrammes

Many individuals contributed to the preparation o the present

Compilation of Evidence-Based Family Skills TrainingProgrammes.

The United Nations Ofce on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) would like to acknowledge in particular KarolKumper o the University o Utah, who undertook the searchor evidence-based amily skills training programmes, and herresearch assistants Marjanne Munniksma and Kiana Taheri.UNODC would also like to thank the programme developerswho provided details o their programmes or inclusion in thiscompilation, as well as Gregor Burkhart, Tara Carney, CharlesParry, Lynn McDonald, Majella Murphy, Angelina Kurtev andMethinin Pinyuchon or their comments on the dratdocument.UNODC also wishes to thank the sta o the Prevention,Treatment and Rehabilitation Unit o UNODC or theircommitment, in particular Katri Tala, who coordinated theproduction process, Giovanna Campello, who assisted in theacilitation o the technical consultation.

Acknowledgements

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This publication is a supplement to the

Guide to ImplementingFamily Skills Training Programmes for Drug Abuse Prevention

which was published in March 2009. It provides policymakers,programme managers, non-governmental organizations andothers interested in implementing amily skills trainingprogrammes with a review o existing evidence-based amilyskills training programmes. Its purpose is to provide details o the content o such programmes, the groups targeted, the materi-als used and the training implemented, in order to assist usersin selecting the programme best suited to their needs and tooer guidance as to the kind o programmes available. In 2007,UNODC, with the help o Karol Kumper o the University o Utah, began to search or amily programmes around the worldthat were either being developed or had been implemented byGovernments, non-governmental organizations or practitioners.UNODC received descriptions o some 150 programmes; theprogrammes included in this publication are those regarded, onthe basis o randomized control trials, as having had positiveresults. The programmes appear in descending order o the levelo scientifc evidence on which they are based.UNODC strongly recommends practitioners, clinicians andothers working in the area o prevention to use evidence-basedprogrammes rather than start developing their own rom scratch.There are two main reasons or this: frstly, while eorts in thearea o prevention to help and support others are undoubtedlyounded on good intentions, research has shown that goodintentions can sometimes cause unintended harm. Evidence-based

United Nations publication, Sales No. E.09.XI.8.

Introduction

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