Conclusions

The objective of this book has been to identify intervention programmes which prevent a range of relatively common psychological problems in childhood and adolescence. In order to identify effective prevention programmes we reviewed over 200 studies involving more than 70,000 children. Furthermore, the studies we selected for review were the most methodologically robust that we could find using both computer and manual searches of the English language literature for the pa st quarter of a century. We can therefore place considerable confidence in our conclusions which are summarized in this chapter.