Thriving in adversity: Do brief milieu interventions work for young adults in the developing world? A pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Thriving in adversity: Do brief milieu interventions work for young adults in the developing world? A pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Adolescence may be a window of opportunity to attenuate the effects of early social adversity, which impedes cognitive, emotional, and social development, and increases risk of psychopathology into adulthood. We ran a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a brief intervention designed to facilitate life skills for psychosocial competence. Socially disadvantaged young people living in South India who had experienced early adversity (N = 645; age range = 17-22 years) participated in the intervention or were assigned to a wait-list control group. The intervention led to large differences in life skills between the two groups. This brief, scalable intervention can be made available to address the impact of early social adversity on young people's development.
Adolescence, Life skills, Low socioeconomic communities, Nongovernmental organizations, Psychosocial competence, Scalable psychosocial intervention, Social adversity
Pearson, David
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Kennedy, Fiona
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Bhat, Suchetha
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Talreja, Vishal
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Newman-Taylor, Katherine
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Pearson, David
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Kennedy, Fiona
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Bhat, Suchetha
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Talreja, Vishal
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Newman-Taylor, Katherine
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Pearson, David, Kennedy, Fiona, Bhat, Suchetha, Talreja, Vishal and Newman-Taylor, Katherine
(2021)
Thriving in adversity: Do brief milieu interventions work for young adults in the developing world? A pragmatic randomized controlled trial.
Social Behavior and Personality, 49 (9), [e10494].
(doi:10.2224/sbp.10494).
Abstract
Adolescence may be a window of opportunity to attenuate the effects of early social adversity, which impedes cognitive, emotional, and social development, and increases risk of psychopathology into adulthood. We ran a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a brief intervention designed to facilitate life skills for psychosocial competence. Socially disadvantaged young people living in South India who had experienced early adversity (N = 645; age range = 17-22 years) participated in the intervention or were assigned to a wait-list control group. The intervention led to large differences in life skills between the two groups. This brief, scalable intervention can be made available to address the impact of early social adversity on young people's development.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 May 2021
Published date: 1 September 2021
Keywords:
Adolescence, Life skills, Low socioeconomic communities, Nongovernmental organizations, Psychosocial competence, Scalable psychosocial intervention, Social adversity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/452147
ISSN: 0301-2212
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