Prevention Science Research With Children, Adolescents, and Families: Introduction

The concept of prevention has been of longstanding interest to mental health professionals. Over the years, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry has published many noteworthy essays on prevention that have articulated its promise, its advances, and the challenges that lie ahead. In this issue, a special section is devoted to the topic of preventive intervention for children, adolescents, and families. The six articles it contains provide insight, both individually and as a set, into the current status of research in preventive intervention and illustrate many of the dominant themes and activities embodied in work at the cutting edge of the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)