![]() | Handbook of adolescent drug use prevention: Research, intervention strategies, and practice Lawrence M. Scheier, PhD, is senior fellow at the Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania. He is also Chief of Science, Research Facilitation Team, Army Analytics Group, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army. Dr. Scheier is author of more than 100 articles and essays looking at studies of youth development, resilience, and factors that spur positive youth adaptation. He has also edited four books on grant writing, parenting, drug etiology, and drug prevention. His current research program emphasizes the role of psychological strengths and assets in health outcomes and health care utilization among U.S. Army soldiers. Dr. Scheier is a nationally and internationally renowned scholar who blends theory and methodological tools with longitudinal data mining to examine psychosocial factors that influence growth and change in normal development. He has also examined programmatic-based change with many different school- and community-based drug prevention approaches. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he has engaged the private business sector in research on youth development and health. Dr. Scheier has been a member of several national government panels, including the Media Campaign Advisory Team for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign and assisted the U.S. Department of Education in a large-scale program evaluation of school-based mandatory school drug testing. He has provided expert consulting to the federal government on matters related to youth drug treatment and school-based drug prevention programs. |
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