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Four years of PATHS implementation in Istria: results and learned lessons

First trial of PATHS program was conducted in Istria within the research project "Communities That Care:development, implementation and evaluation of community prevention model" by the research team from University of Zagreb Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences within the partnership with the Region of Istria. Research within this project has shown the need for investments in social-emotional competencies of children and youth. With the support and friendly hand from Prevention Research Center, Penn State University, groundwork for PATHS implementation has started in fall 2006. It was decided that program is going to be piloted in two Istrian schools: Elementary School Porec and Elementary school Ivo Lola Ribar, Labin. In each of these schools program was implemented in two classes while for the purpose of research and adaptation, in both schools, two control classes were also chosen. PATHS delivery has started from the school year 2007/08 when children were 1st grade and program was running during whole elementary school, for four years. During our talk, we will present the results of PATHS evaluation in Istria. Evaluation of program went in two directions and connected evaluation of implementation process and evaluation of PATHS program effectiveness. We will show the results of the analysis of several measures of program effectiveness: Teacher Social Competence Rating Scale (Kam and Greenberg, 1998), Emotion Recognition Questionnaire (Ribordy, Camras, Stafani and Spacarelli, 1988), FT Social Problem Solving Scale(Corrigan, 2003), Kusche affective interview - revisited (Kusche, 2000), Test of Emotion Dictionary (Taksic, Harambasic and Velemir, 2003), UEK-15 (Taksic, 2001) and Understanding Our Lives (Schonert-REichl, 2010). Also, we will show the comparison of experimental and control conditions and talk about the first PATHS implementation experience in Istria.

PATHS; universal prevention; school based prevention; evaluation of prevention program

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