Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper describes a pilot study of a multi-component intervention designed to diminish aggressive and disruptive behaviors of children in elementary school. Multi-component interventions reflect social work's emphasis on an ecological perspective, targeting risk and protective factors at several levels, individuals, groups, families, organizations, communities and/or broader societal systems. This multi-component intervention utilized two curricula: Making Choices, a social skills program for children, and Strong Families, a parenting program based upon coercive family processes. The combined intervention was evaluated using a quasi-experimental research design across three sites (N = 31). Quantitative analysis of the data demonstrated that, as hypothesized, children in the combined intervention, Strong Families and Making Choices, displayed more school-related prosocial behaviors across a number of dimensions than children who did not participate in either intervention. The data from the first year of implementation provide support for multi-component interventions that focus on developmental risk factors in children to reduce aggressive behavior.
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