Karen Vanmarcke, Ruben Kramer, Jolien Moernaut, Giovanni Laleman, Cynthia Deman, Johan Jongbloet, Annemie Coone
{"title":"EUPC Implementation Experiences in the Context of the Flemish Community, Belgium.","authors":"Karen Vanmarcke, Ruben Kramer, Jolien Moernaut, Giovanni Laleman, Cynthia Deman, Johan Jongbloet, Annemie Coone","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00860-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00860-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Flemish community in Belgium has been actively involved in the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) since its adaptation of the UPC (Universal Prevention Curriculum) to the European context, followed by participation in the ASAP-training project (Building effective drug prevention results across Europe, based on prevention systems analysis and widespread professional training). This practitioner narrative explores the implementation of the EUPC in the Flemish community in Belgium as part of a Special Issue on EUPC implementation practice and lessons learnt. The implementation of the EUPC in the Flemish community has demonstrated positive effects on the broader substance use prevention landscape, highlighting the importance of high-quality prevention initiatives. Despite these successes, challenges persist, particularly within a prevention support system constrained by limited resources. Key obstacle is getting and maintaining the engagement of decision-makers, opinion leaders, and policymakers, which were central to the EUPC's original focus. In response to this challenge, the Flemish community is gradually developing supplementary materials. These efforts continue to be guided by EUPC-related content, aiming to enhance the region's capacity for effective substance use prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary - Community Involvement and Prevention Science in and with Communities - Where do we go next?","authors":"Jeremy Segrott, Ina Koning, Boris Chapoton","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00864-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00864-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in the 'Dunkelfeld': A Public Health Imperative Requiring Context-Appropriate Science-A Response to König (2025).","authors":"K M Beier, M von Heyden, J Nentzl, T Amelung","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00859-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00859-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>König's (2025) critique of the German Prevention Project Dunkelfeld mis-applies standards developed for adjudicated (\"Hellfeld\") offenders to a voluntary, non-forensic prevention setting. We clarify why context-appropriate science is essential for evaluating interventions that reach individuals whose child sexual abuse (CSA) behaviour remains hidden from the justice system. First, the large gap between official recidivism and high self-reported offending is not methodological failure but strong evidence of the well-documented \"dark figure\" of undetected sexual crime. Second, Germany's unique legal framework (§ 65d SGB V; § 203 StGB) enables confidential, face-to-face treatment and pharmacological options that are infeasible in jurisdictions with mandatory reporting, making Dunkelfeld programmes a public-health imperative. Third, forensic risk tools and the CODC (2007) guidelines lack demonstrated validity for voluntary help-seekers; carefully collected self-report and dynamic risk-factor change therefore constitute the only context-relevant outcome metrics. Fourth, concerns about iatrogenic effects must be interpreted through the Risk-Need-Responsivity lens: specialised, multi-modal interventions such as the Berlin Dissexuality Therapy (BEDIT) show beneficial changes in cognitive and behavioural risk markers, mirroring findings from recent RCTs of internet-delivered CBT and pharmacological therapy. Finally, all German model sites are currently undergoing an independent, multi-year evaluation commissioned by the national health-insurance association. We conclude that preventing CSA and CSAM requires embracing rigorous yet context-sensitive methodologies rather than importing standards that overlook the dark figure. The ethical imperative to prevent harm and offer help to those at risk persists even acknowledging that no intervention guarantees universal success, demanding our most contextually sensitive scientific efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Parissa J Ballard, Elena M Vidrascu, Taylor J Arnold, Guadalupe C Hernandez, Emily J Ozer, Rebekah Lassiter, Himani Nayyar, Stephanie S Daniel, Mark Wolfson
{"title":"Understanding Opioid Use from Retrospective Accounts of Young Adults in Recovery: Motives, Experiences, and Implications for Prevention.","authors":"Parissa J Ballard, Elena M Vidrascu, Taylor J Arnold, Guadalupe C Hernandez, Emily J Ozer, Rebekah Lassiter, Himani Nayyar, Stephanie S Daniel, Mark Wolfson","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00861-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00861-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fanyu Liu, Kerui Geng, Bin Jiang, Xiang Li, Qinglan Wang
{"title":"Correction: Community-Based Group Exercises and Depression Prevention Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: A Longitudinal Analysis.","authors":"Fanyu Liu, Kerui Geng, Bin Jiang, Xiang Li, Qinglan Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00862-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10935-025-00862-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Advancing Science-Based Prevention: Insights from the EUPC Training in Bosnia and Herzegovina.","authors":"Amir Hasanović, Andrea Mijatović, Sanela Pekić","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00863-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10935-025-00863-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144499766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ioulia Bafi, Eftychia Georgoulopoulou, Maria Kyriakidou, Sotiria Makaroni
{"title":"EUPC Implementation in Greece.","authors":"Ioulia Bafi, Eftychia Georgoulopoulou, Maria Kyriakidou, Sotiria Makaroni","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00851-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00851-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) was introduced in Greece through the European Commission co-funded project, ASAP training. In this project, a comprehensive training on EUPC for decision-, opinion- and policy-makers was developed with basic and advanced modules. The first EUPC trainings in Greece began in 2019. Since then, both the basic and the advanced modules of the EUPC have been offered by four accredited trainers. Between 2019 and mid-2024, EUPC training engaged 89 professionals. Trainings are conducted based on the Trainer's Guide developed under ASAP, with updates incorporated when available by the EUDA, ensuring alignment with the latest evidence in the science of prevention. While maintaining fidelity to Trainer's Guide, minor adaptations, such as extending the duration, have been introduced to better suit stakeholders involved so far, encouraging reflection on current practices and enhancing engagement. EUPC has contributed to the establishment of a common language in prevention, updating professionals with current evidence-based practices, and fostering critical reflection on existing practices. Despite challenges such as resistance to change and the need for structured evaluations of EUPC trainings, the curriculum has empowered professionals by reinforcing the importance of rigorous, systematic approaches in designing and implementing prevention strategies and interventions. Future plans aim to expand EUPC's reach into the education sector and address broader risk behaviours, while expanding its reach to regional and local levels as well as ensuring its sustainability. These initiatives underscore EUPC's pivotal role in shaping a cohesive prevention framework that benefits both local communities and national policy objectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144499767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a Member of the Prevention Club: Development of Interdisciplinary Prevention Terminology.","authors":"Karin Streimann, Triin Vilms, Ruth Erm, Kersti Pärna, Dagmar Kutsar, Andero Uusberg, Evelyn Kiive, Merike Sisask, Sirje Vaask, Jana Holmar, Kadi Lubi, Ülle Ernits, Merle Varik, Kaja-Triin Laisaar","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00858-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00858-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Prevention science is interdisciplinary, drawing upon multiple fields of research and practice to develop integrated knowledge. A challenge facing the field is the proliferation of different terms with the same meaning, and of terms with different meanings. This can create confusion in communication, affect evaluation standards, and ultimately also affect the implementation of preventive interventions. Contributing to the development of evidence standards for preventive interventions, this article describes the process and results of interdisciplinary prevention terminology development in Estonia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Following the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, different co-design tools were used during a four-year process to help understand terminological needs, generate ideas, draw concept maps, and test examples of definitions in different target groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty-five terms were tested, refined, and published. Six of these represent the main concepts relevant to prevention and intervention evaluation: vulnerability, prevention, preventive intervention, well-being, process evaluation, and impact evaluation. Several candidate terms were omitted for being confusing, ambiguous, or misunderstood in terms of the type or mechanism of intervention, the quality of evidence, or the quality of practice.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Collaborative and participatory methods can be used to bridge the divide in language and to help pursue consensus definitions. Shared understanding is needed both nationally and internationally between disciplines, sectors, implementation levels, and professions, as the involved parties include policymakers, researchers, innovators, and practitioners in the domains of healthcare and public health, education, safety, social work and welfare, justice, and culture. The development of an interdisciplinary prevention glossary described in this paper was novel in its approach and has the potential to support successful continuing interdisciplinary collaboration in the prevention field.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144259553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Avery Turner, Diana Jenkins, Maria Schweer-Collins, Leslie D Leve
{"title":"Correction: The Association Between Intimate Partner Encouragement of Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Among Females Formerly Involved in the Juvenile Justice System.","authors":"Avery Turner, Diana Jenkins, Maria Schweer-Collins, Leslie D Leve","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00837-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10935-025-00837-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":"337-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12206172/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144013676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Avery Turner, Diana Jenkins, Maria Schweer-Collins, Leslie D Leve
{"title":"The Association Between Intimate Partner Encouragement of Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Among Females Formerly Involved in the Juvenile Justice System.","authors":"Avery Turner, Diana Jenkins, Maria Schweer-Collins, Leslie D Leve","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00828-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10935-025-00828-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Females who are involved with the juvenile justice system as adolescents are at risk for heavy alcohol use, which is associated with an increased risk of recidivism and negative health outcomes. Alcohol use peaks during emerging adulthood and intimate partners play an increasingly important role in decision making during this developmental period. Using data from a longitudinal study of females who were involved in the juvenile justice system as adolescents (n = 80), we investigated whether intimate partner encouragement of alcohol use is associated with higher rates of alcohol use frequency among this population as they enter emerging adulthood. Participants reported on their partners' encouragement of their alcohol use at an in-person study visit when they were emerging adults, and then reported on their own alcohol use approximately six months later. A negative binomial regression was fit to the data and estimated that for each standard deviation increase in reported intimate partner encouragement of alcohol use, participants' rate of alcohol consumption increased by 109% six months later. These findings indicate that intimate partner encouragement of alcohol use may be a risk factor for heavy drinking among emerging adult females with a history of chronic and severe delinquency. These findings have implications for prevention, as they indicate a need to measure intimate partner encouragement of alcohol use in studies that involve high-risk emerging adult females and may suggest that intimate partners should be included in interventions intended to reduce heavy alcohol use.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":"321-336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12206190/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143426770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}