SDRG Projects
Research projects at SDRG seek to harness prevention science to improve lives among diverse populations. We do this by conducting research in multiple, coordinated areas, including:
- Seeking to understand the underlying causes of behavior, health, and social problems
- Developing and testing interventions designed to prevent behavior, health, and social problems
- Understanding how to take effective interventions out of the research setting and into the real world
- Studying service systems and working to improve them
Past Projects
Treating Cocaine Abuse (1987)
Treating Cocaine Abuse compared the effectiveness of two outpatient treatment approaches for cocaine abuse. In collaboration with Pacific Treatment Services of Snohomish County, the study provided outpatient treatment to approximately 110 cocaine abusers. Half of the participants received a skills training intervention based on a cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention model, and half received a Twelve Step...
Project Adapt (1984)
The Project ADAPT curriculum was designed for young people entering the community after incarceration or residential treatment. The curriculum teaches cognitive and behavioral skills to reduce drug abuse and recidivism. During the field test, the curriculum was accompanied by case management services for youth as they returned to the community. The 19-session skill-training curriculum begins...
Project Skills (1981)
Project Skills was a demonstration project to test the effects of adding a skills training and network development aftercare intervention to adult residential treatment for drug abuse. The program collaborated with four therapeutic communities in the Seattle area and randomly assigned residents approaching the reentry stage of treatment when they still lived in the facility...