Explain the short-term and long-term results of the Fast Track intervention, designed to prevent conduct problems in middle childhood and adolescence
What will be an ideal response?
Short-term: a year after the intervention began, children were observed to be less aggressive, had higher grades, had better social and emotional skills, and were rated more positively by peers than controls.
Long-term: reduced the rate of externalizing behavior problems.
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