CERD maintains a unique online library of topics related to youth and family development featuring work from the Center’s esteemed personnel. The library is frequently updated, so please keep checking back for new articles.

Books and Journals:

Articles:

The following articles are available from the CERD library for review in Adobe Acrobat Reader’s “pdf” format, and are listed by year. You may obtain Adobe Reader by clicking here, and then returning to the CERD site:

Note: All articles may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Resilience Articles:

Resilience: From Program to Process: The California School Psychologist, Vol. 9, pp. 83-92, 2004

Why at risk is at risk: American School Boards Journal (ASBJ), November, 2005

Youth, drugs, and resilience education, Journal of Drug Education, 2001.

Systemic reform concerning resilience in education. Tech Trends’ Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), 2001.

On becoming at-risk through drug education: How symbolic policies and their practices affect students. Evaluation Review, 1995.

Drug Education Articles:

Youth, drugs, and resilience education, Journal of Drug Education, 2001.

100 years of “just say no” versus “just say know”, Evaluation Review, February, 1998.

Students and substances: Social power in drug education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), 1997.

In their own voices: Students and educators evaluate California school-based drug, alcohol, and tobacco, education (DATE) programs: Prepared for the California State Department of Education, March 1995

Deviants and deviance: Why adolescent substance use prevention programs do not work. Evaluation Review, 1993.

Education Publications:

A JAI Press/CERD Book Series: Advances in Confluent Education (the confluence of cognition, affect, and behavior within the diverse contexts of learning, instruction, leadership, and evaluation). This series is an essential addition to the libraries of those seeking to understand and facilitate human change through practical educational processes.

Volume 1: Integrating Consciousness for Human Change

Volume 2: Multicultural Dynamics of Educational Change

Research Methods:

Confluent Education and Evaluation Research. In J.H. Brown (ed.), Advances in Confluent Education Vol 1: Integrating consciousness for human change (113-141).

Multicultural Dimensions of Education:

The multicultural dynamics of educational change. Advances in Confluent Education, Vol 2: Multicultural dynamics of educational change. 1999.