PREPARE for the Best
It is official!!! PREPSEC International, along with our Czech Republic partners, are hosting a conference PREPARE for the Best Social-Emotional Learning, Mental Health and Family Support with PREPARE Programs Prague, April 15 and 16, 2027 Our two-day program will include sessions on ART, AART, PREPARE Curriculum programs, Evidence-based and Practice-based research, Successful Implementation methods, and ways of working with group and/or individual [...]
Intuitively, I Knew That!
As time goes by in our personal practice of working with youth and families, I find it uncanny how we figured things out intuitively. As we went along teaching the social competencies of the PREPARE Curriculum this intuitiveness seemed to become part of the underlying theory of why we do what we do, now even more evident ten years later! [...]
General Meeting report
This month began with a very long overdue General Meeting on November 9 th . This was scheduled for a Sunday, so as not to conflict with the time you devote to your jobs and those you help. Unfortunately, we were unaware that it also fell on Fathers’ Day in Norway, Morten's Aften in Denmark, Polish Independence Day and various [...]
Is it possible to positively reintegrate juvenile delinquents into society?
Rehabilitating delinquent youth is associated with enormous difficulties. In fact, up to 80- 90% relapse within one or two years of ending treatment. Opinions on what that is due to, and what should be done, differs widely. Ideology often takes precedence over empirical data and there have been many fluctuations over the years. Internationally, there are hundreds of studies on [...]
Moral Decision Making: a multi-modal process
by Johan Björkehed and Kim Parker Over the past few months, we have posted articles that refer to some of the principals behind moral decision making that Dr Goldstein based his Moral Reasoning Training on. This month’s 10 Lines takes a look a colleague that directly contributed to ART and the PREPARE Curriculum: Dr John Gibbs. As well, we [...]
The Importance of Moral Action
The Importance of Moral Action by Bengt Daleflod Moral values play a crucial role in our actions. Whether or not young people choose social solutions depends a lot on how they think and evaluate situations that have arisen. Many studies establish that there is a strong correlation between immature morality, antisocial behavior, and crime. Criminal and antisocial values are also [...]