Richard Catalano

Ph.D. l982, University of Washington. Predictors of positive and problem development; prevention and health promotion/intervention.

Department: School of Social Work
Position: Director & Professor, Social Development & Research
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Dr. Richard F. Catalano is Professor and the Director of the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington's School of Social Work and adjunct Professor of Education and Sociology. For over 25 years, he has led research focused on discovering risk and protective factors for positive and problem behavior, designing and evaluating programs to address these factors, using this knowledge on etiology and efficacy to understand and improve prevention services systems. He is the co-developer of the Social Development Model, a theory of antisocial behavior. He is also the co-developer of the parenting programs "Guiding Good Choices," "Supporting School Success," and "Parents Who Care," of the school-based program, "Raising Healthy Children," and of the community prevention approach, 'Communities That Care.' He has published over 200 articles and book chapters. His work has been recognized by practitioners (1996 National Prevention Network’s Award of Excellence); criminologists (2007 August Vollmer Award by the American Society of Criminology, 2003 Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology, and Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology); and prevention scientists (2001 Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research).

Recent Publications:

Farrington, D. P.; Jolliffe, D.; Hawkins, J. D.; Catalano, R. F.; Hill, K. G.; Kosterman, R., (Forthcoming), Why are boys more likely to be referred to juvenile court? Gender differences in official and self-reported delinquency, Victims & Offenders.

Hawkins, J. D.; Oesterle, S.; Brown, E. C.; Arthur, M. W.; Abbott, R. D.; Fagan, A. A.; Catalano, R. F., (Forthcoming), Results of a type 2 translational research trial to prevent adolescent drug use and delinquency: A test of Communities That Care, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Skinner, M. L.; Haggerty, K. P.; Catalano, R. F., (Forthcoming), Parental and peer influences on teen smoking: Are European and African American families different? , Nicotine and Tobacco Research..

White, H. R.; Bray, B. C.; Fleming, C. B.; Catalano, R. F., (Forthcoming), Transitions into and out of light and intermittent smoking from adolescence into emerging adulthood, Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

Catalano, R. F., (2009), Positive youth development, The encyclopedia of positive psychology, Lopez, S. J., 2, 759-765, Wiley-Blackwell Pub., Chichester, U.K.; Malden, MA.

Herrenkohl, T. I.; Catalano, R. F.; Hemphill, S. A.; Toumbourou, J. W., (2009), Longitudinal Examination of Physical and Relational Aggression as Precursors to Later Problem Behaviors in Adolescents, Violence and Victims, 24, 3-19.

Lorrie, G.; Catalano, R. F.; Corinne, D.-F.; Kari, G.; Christine, M., (2009), Positive Youth Development Programs That Promote Adolescent Reproductive Health, The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 44: 2, S13.

McMorris, B. J.; Petrie, R. S.; Catalano, R. F.; Fleming, C. B.; Haggerty, K. P.; Abbott, R. D., (2009), Use of Web and In-Person Survey Modes to Gather Data From Young Adults on Sex and Drug Use: An Evaluation of Cost, Time, and Survey Error Based on a Randomized Mixed-Mode Design, Evaluation Review, 2: 33, 138-158.

Skinner, M. L.; Haggerty, K. P.; Fleming, C. B.; Catalano, R. F., (2009), Predicting Functional Resilience Among Young-Adult Children of Opiate-Dependent Parents, The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine: 44, 283-290.

Bailey, J. A.; Fleming, C. B.; Henson, J. N.; Catalano, R. F.; Haggerty, K. P., (2008), Sexual Risk Behavior 6 Months Post-High School: Associations with College Attendance, Living with a Parent, and Prior Risk Behavior, Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine., 42: 6, 573.

Bailey, J. A.; Hill, K. G.; Hawkins, J. D.; Catalano, R. F.; Abbott, R. D., (2008), Men's and Women's Patterns of Substance Use Around Pregnancy, BIRTH -CAMBRIDGE MA THEN MALDEN MA-, 35: 1, 50-59.

Catalano, R. F., (2008), Using community epidemiologic data to improve social settings: The Communities That Care prevention system, Toward positive youth development : transforming schools and community programs, Shinn, M.; Yoshikawa, H., Oxford University Press, Oxford; New York.

Catalano, R. F.; Hawkins, J. D.; Toumbourou, J. W., (2008), Positive youth development in the United States: History, efficacy and links to moral and character education, Handbook of moral and character education, Nucci, L. P.; Narvaez, D., Routledge, New York.

Cortes, R. C.; Fleming, C. B.; Mason, W. A.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Risk Factors Linking Maternal Depressed Mood to Growth in Adolescent Substance Use, Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: 17, 49-64.

Fleming, C. B.; Catalano, R. F.; Mazza, J. J.; Brown, E. C.; Haggerty, K. P.; Harachi, T. W., (2008), After-School Activities, Misbehavior in School, and Delinquency From the End of Elementary School Through the Beginning of High School: A Test of Social Development Model Hypotheses, The Journal of Early Adolescence, 28: 2, 277-303.

Fleming, C. B.; Mason, W. A.; Catalano, R. F.; Mazza, J. J.; Abbott, R. D., (2008), Latent Growth Modeling of the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Substance Use During Adolescence, Psychol. Addict. Behav. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22: 2, 186-197.

Gruman, D. H.; Harachi, T. W.; Abbott, R. D.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Longitudinal effects of student mobility on three dimensions of elementary school engagement., Child Development, 79: 6, 1833-1852.

Haggerty, K. P.; Fleming, C. B.; Catalano, R. F.; Petrie, R. S.; Rubin, R. J.; Grassley, M. H., (2008), Ten years later: Locating and interviewing children of drug abusers, EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING, 31: 1, 1-9.

Haggerty, K. P.; Skinner, M.; Fleming, C. B.; Gainey, R. R.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Long-term effects of the Focus on Families project on substance use disorders among children of parents in methadone treatment, ADDICTION -ABINGDON-, 103: 12, 2008-2016.

Hawkins, J. D.; Brown, E. C.; Oesterle, S.; Arthur, M. W.; Abbott, R. D.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Early effects of Communities That Care on targeted risks and initiation of delinquent behavior and substance use, Journal of Adolescent Health, 43: 1, 15-22.

Hawkins, J. D.; Catalano, R. F.; Arthur, M. W.; Egan, E.; Brown, E. C.; Abbott, R. D.; Murray, D. M., (2008), Testing Communities That Care: The Rationale, Design and Behavioral Baseline Equivalence of the Community Youth Development Study, Prevention Science, 9: 3, 178-190.

Hawkins, J. D.; Kosterman, R.; Catalano, R. F.; Hill, K. G.; Abbott, R. D., (2008), Effects of social development intervention in childhood 15 years later, Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, 162: 12, 1133-41.

Mazza, J. J.; Abbott, R. D.; Fleming, C. B.; Harachi, T. W.; Cortes, R. C.; Park, J.; Haggerty, K. P.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Early Predictors of Adolescent Depression: A 7-Year Longitudinal Study, The Journal of Early Adolescence.

Patton, G. C.; Olsson, C.; Bond, L.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Carlin, J. B.; Hemphill, S. A.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Predicting female depression across puberty: a two-nation longitudinal study, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47: 12, 1424-32.

Simons-Morton, B.; Ouimet, M. C.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Parenting and the Young Driver Problem, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35: 3, Supplement 1, S294-S303.

Van Horn, M. L.; Fagan, A. A.; Jaki, T.; Brown, E. C.; Hawkins, J. D.; Arthur, M. W.; Abbott, R. D.; Catalano, R. F., (2008), Using Multilevel Mixtures to Evaluate Intervention Effects in Group Randomized Trials, Multivariate Behavioral Research, 43: 2, 289 - 326.

White, H. R.; Fleming, C. B.; Kim, M. J.; Catalano, R. F.; McMorris, B. J., (2008), Identifying Two Potential Mechanisms for Changes in Alcohol Use among College Attending and Non-College-Attending Emerging Adults, Developmental Psychology, 44: 6, 1625-1639.

Arthur, M. W.; Briney, J. S.; Hawkins, J. D.; Abbott, R. D.; Brooke-Weiss, B. L.; Catalano, R. F., (2007), Measuring risk and protection in communities using the communities that care youth survey, Evaluation and Program Planning, 30: 197-211.

Catalano, R. F., (2007), Vollmer Award essay: Prevention is a sound public and private investment, Criminology and Public Policy, 6: 3, 377-398.

Evans-Whipp, T. J.; Bond, L.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Catalano, R. F., (2007), School, parent, and student perspectives of school drug policies, Journal of School Health, 77: 3, 138-146.

Gainey, R. R.; Haggerty, K. P.; Fleming, C. B.; Catalano, R. F., (2007), Teaching Parenting Skills in a Methadone Treatment Setting, SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH -NEW YORK-, 31: 3, 185-190.

Haggerty, K. P.; Skinner, M. L.; MacKenzie, E. P.; Catalano, R. F., (2007), A Randomized Trial of Parents Who Care: Effects on Key Outcomes at 24-month Follow-up, Prevention Science, 8: 4, 249-260.

Hawkins, J. D.; Smith, B. H.; Hill, K. G.; Kosterman, R.; Catalano, R. F.; Abbott, R. D., (2007), Promoting Social Development and Preventing Health and Behavior Problems during the Elementary Grades: Results from the Seattle Social Development Project, Victims & Offenders, 2: 2, 161 - 181.

Hemphill, S. A.; Herrenkohl, T. I.; LaFazia, A. N.; McMorris, B. J.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Arthur, M. W.; Catalano, R. F.; Hawkins, J. D.; Bond, L., (2007), Comparison of the Structure of Adolescent Problem Behavior in the United States and Australia, Crime & Delinquency, 53, 303-321.

Hemphill, S. A.; McMorris, B. J.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Herrenkohl, T. I.; Catalano, R. F.; Mathers, M., (2007), Rates of student-reported antisocial behavior, school suspensions and arrests in Victoria, Australia and Washington State, Journal of School Health, 77: 6, 303-311.

Herrenkohl, T. I.; McMorris, B. J.; Catalano, R. F.; Abbott, R. D.; Hemphill, S. A.; Toumbourou, J. W., (2007), Risk Factors for Violence and Relational Aggression in Adolescence, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22, 386-405.

McMorris, B. J.; Hemphill, S. A.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Catalano, R. F.; Patton, G. C., (2007), Prevalence of substance use and delinquent behavior in adolescents from Victoria, Australia and Washington State, USA, Health Education and Behavior, 34: 634-650.

Patton, G. C.; Hemphill, S. A.; Beyers, J. M.; Bond, L.; Toumbourou, J. W.; McMorris, B. J.; R.F., C., (2007), Pubertal stage and deliberate self-harm in adolescents, Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 508-514.

Van Horn, M. L.; Hawkins, J. D.; Arthur, M. W.; Catalano, R. F., (2007), Assessing community effects on adolescent substance use and delinquency, Crime & Delinquency, 35: 8, 925-946.

Bond, L.; Clements, J.; Bertalli, N.; Evans-Whipp, T.; McMorris, B. J.; Patton, G. C.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Catalano, R. F., (2006), A comparison of self-reported puberty using the Pubertal Development Scale and the Sexual Maturation Scale in a school-based epidemiologic survey, Journal of Adolescence, 29: 5, 709-720.

Choi, Y.; Harachi, T. W.; Catalano, R. F., (2006), Neighborhoods, Family, and Substance Use: Comparisons of the Relations across Racial and Ethnic Groups, Social Service Review, 80: 4, 675.

Choi, Y.; Harachi, T. W.; Gillmore, M. R.; Catalano, R. F., (2006), Are Multiracial Adolescents at Greater Risk? Comparisons of Rates, Patterns, and Correlates of Substance Use and Violence Between Monoracial and Multiracial Adolescents, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76: 1, 86.

Cortes, R. C.; Fleming, C. B.; Catalano, R. F.; Brown, E. C., (2006), Gender Differences in the Association between Maternal Depressed Mood and Child Depressive Phenomena from Grade 3 through Grade 10, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35: 5, 810-821.

Haggerty, K. P.; Fleming, C. B.; Catalano, R. F.; Harachi, T. W.; Abbott, R. D., (2006), Raising healthy children: examining the impact of promoting healthy driving behavior within a social development intervention, Prevention Science, 7: 3, 257.

Haggerty, K. P.; MacKenzie, E. P.; Skinner, M. L.; Harachi, T. W.; Catalano, R. F., (2006), Participation in "parents who care": predicting program initiation and exposure in two different program formats, The Journal of Primary Prevention, 27: 1, 47.

Harachi, T. W.; Catalano, R. F.; Fleming, C. B.; White, H. R.; Ensminger, M. E.; Abbott, R. D.; Haggerty, K. P., (2006), Aggressive behavior among girls and boys during middle childhood: predictors and sequelae of trajectory group membership, Aggressive Behavior, 32: 4, 279.

Harachi, T. W.; Choi, Y.; Abbott, R. D.; Catalano, R. F.; Bliesner, S. L., (2006), Examining equivalence of concepts and measures in diverse samples, Prevention Science, 7: 4, 359.

Patton, G. C.; Bond, L.; Carlin, J. B.; Thomas, L.; Butler, H.; Glover, S.; Catalano, R. F.; Bowes, G., (2006), Promoting social inclusion in schools: A group-randomized trial of effects on student health risk behavior and well-being, American Journal of Public Health, 96: 1582-1587.

Sheryl, A. H.; John, W. T.; Todd, I. H.; Barbara, J. M.; Catalano, R., F., (2006), The Effect of School Suspensions and Arrests on Subsequent Adolescent Antisocial Behavior in Australia and the United States, The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 39: 5, 736-744.

White, H. R.; McMorris, B. J.; Catalano, R. F.; Fleming, C. B.; Haggerty, K. P.; Abbott, R., (2006), Increases in alcohol and marijuana use during the transition out of high school into emerging adulthood: The effects of leaving home, going to college, and high school protective factors, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 67: 6, 810-822.

Beyers, J. M.; Evans-Whipp, T.; Mathers, M.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Catalano, R. F., (2005), A cross-national comparison of school drug policy environments in Washington State, U.S. and Victories, Australia, Journal of School Health, 75: 4, 134-140.

Bond, L.; Toumbourou, J. W.; Thomas, L.; Catalano, R. F.; Patton, G. C., (2005), Individual, family, school and community risk and pretective factors for depressive sypmtoms in adolescents, Prevention Science, 6: 2, 73-88.

Brown, E. C.; Catalano, R. F.; Fleming, C. B.; Haggerty, K. P.; Abbott, R. D., (2005), Interventions with Children and Adolescents - Adolescent Substance Use Outcomes in the Raising Healthy Children Project: A Two-Part Latent Growth Curve Analysis, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73: 4, 699.

Brown, E. C.; Catalano, R. F.; Fleming, C. B.; Haggerty, K. P.; Abbott, R. D.; Cortes, R. R.; Park, J., (2005), Mediator effects in the social development model: An examination of constituent theories, Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 15: 4, 221.

Choi, Y.; Harachi, T. W.; Gillmore, M. R.; Catalano, R. F., (2005), Applicability of the Social Development Model to Urban Ethnic Minority Youth: Examining the Relationship between External Constraints, Family Socialization, and Problem Behaviors, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15: 4, 505.

Fleming, C. B.; Haggerty, K. P.; Catalano, R. F.; Harachi, T. W.; Mazza, J. J.; Gruman, D. H., (2005), Do social and behavioral characteristics targeted by preventive interventions predict standardized test scores and grades?, Journal of School Health, 75, 342-349.

Fleming, C. B.; Haggerty, K. P.; Catalano, R. F.; Harachi, T. W.; Mazza, J. J.; Gruman, D. H., (2005), Social and behavioral characteristics targeted by preventive interventions predict standardized test scores and grades., Journal of School Health, 75, 342-349.

Glaser, R. R.; VanHorn, M. L.; Arthur, M. W.; Hawkins, J. D.; Catalano, R. F., (2005), Measurement properties of the Communities That Care Youth Survey across demographic groups, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 21: 1, 73-102.

Hawkins, J. D.; Catalano, R. F., (2005), Doing prevention science: A response to D.M. Gorman and a brief history of the quasi-experimental study nested within the Seattle Social Development Project, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1, 79-86.

Hawkins, J. D.; Kosterman, R.; Catalano, R. F.; Hill, K. G.; Abbott, R. D., (2005), Promoting positive adult functioning through scoial development intervention in childhood: Long-term effects from the Seattle Social Development Project, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 159, 25-31.

Hill, K. G.; Hawkins, J. D.; Catalano, R. F.; Abbott, R. D.; Guo, J., (2005), Family influences on the risk of daily smoking initiation, The Journal of Adolescent Health, 37: 3, 202-210.

Karl, G. H.; Catalano, R., F. ; Hawkins, J. D.; Robert, D. A.; Jie, G., (2005), Family influences on the risk of daily smoking initiation, The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 37: 3, 202-210.

Kosterman, R.; Hawkins, J. D.; Abbott, R. D.; Hill, K. G.; Herrenkohl, T. I.; Catalano, R. F., (2005), Measures of positive adult behavior and their relationship to crime and substance abuse, Prevention Science, 6, 21-33.

Toumbourou, J. W.; Beyers, J. M.; Catalano, R. F.; Hawkins, J. D.; Arthur, M. W.; Evans-Whipp, T.; Bond, L.; Patton, G. C., (2005), Youth alcohol and other drug use in the United States and Australia: a cross-national comparison of three state-wide samples., Drug and Alcohol Review, 24: 6, 515-523.

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