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Attar, B. K., Guerra, N. G., & Tolan, P. H. (1994). Neighborhood disadvantage, stressful life events, and adjustment in urban elementary school children. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 23, 391-400.

Balcazar, F., McKay, M., Keys, C., Henry, D., & Bryant, F., (1998). Agency commitment to the values of community inclusion: Effects on staff satisfaction. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 102, 451-463.

Eargle, A., Guerra, N. G., & Tolan, P. H. (1994). Preventing aggression in inner-city children: Small group training to change cognition, social skills, and behavior. Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Psychotherapy, 4, 229-242.

Florsheim, P., Tolan, P. H., & Gorman-Smith, D. (1996). Family processes and risk for externalizing behavior problems among African-American and Hispanic boys. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 1222-1230.

Florsheim, P., Tolan, P. H., & Gorman-Smith, D. (1998). Family relationships, parenting practices, the availability of mail family members, and the behavior of inner-city boys in single-mother and two-parent families. Child Development, 69, 1437-1447

Gorman-Smith, D., Henry, D.B. & Tolan, P.H. (in press). Exposure to community violence and violence perpetration: The protective effects of family functioning. Journal of Child Clinical and Adolescent Psychology.

Gorman-Smith, D., & Tolan, P. H. (1992). Ethics and empirical basis of treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. AFTA Newsletter, 50, 41-44.

Gorman-Smith, D., & Tolan, P. H. (1996). Prospects and possibilities: Next steps in sound understanding of youth violence. Journal of Family Psychology, 10, 153-157.

Gorman-Smith, D., & Tolan, P. H. (1998). The role of exposure to violence and developmental problems among inner-city youth. Development & Psychopathology, 10, 101-116.

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., & Henry, D. (2000). A developmental-ecological model of the relation of family functioning to patterns of delinquency. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 16, 169-198.

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., & Henry, D. (1999)., The relation of community and family to risk among urban poor adolescents. In P. Cohen, L. Robins, & C. Slomkowski (Eds.), Where and when: Influence of historical time and place on aspects of psychopathology. (pp. 349-367). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., Henry, D.B., & Flosheim, P. (2000). Patterns of family functioning and adolescent outcomes among urban African American and Mexican American families. Journal of Family Psychology, 14, 436-457.

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P., Loeber, R., & Henry, D., (1998) The relation of family problems to patterns of delinquent involvement among urban youth. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 26, 319-333.

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., Henry, D., Leventhal, A., Schoeny, M., Lutovsky, Kelly and Quintana, E. (2002). Predictors of participation in a family focused preventive-intervention for substance use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 16, S55-S64.

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., & Sheidow, A.J. (In press). Partner and street violence among urban adolescents: Relation of family functioning to risk. Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P. H., Zelli, A., & Huesmann, L. R. (1996). The relation of family functioning to violence among inner-city minority youth. Journal of Family Psychology, 10, 115-129.

Guerra, N. G., Huesmann, L. R., Tolan, P. H., VanAcker, R. V., & Eron, L. D. (1995). Stressful events and individual beliefs as correlates of economic disadvantage and aggression among urban children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 518-528.

Hanish, L. & Tolan, P.H. (In press). Patterns of response to a family aggression prevention program. Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Henry, D. (in press) Peer groups, families, and school failure among urban children: Elements of risk and successful interventions. Preventing School Failure, 44

Henry, D., Guerra, N.G., Huesmann, L. R., Tolan, P. H., VanAcker, R., & Eron, L.D. (2000) Normative influences on aggression in urban elementary school classrooms. American Journal of Community Psychology, 28, 59-81.

Henry, D. (in press) A toe in the water. Special Issue: Employment Opportunities in Community Psychology. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community. To be reprinted in O'Donnell, C. R., & Ferrari, J. R. (Eds.). Employment in community psychology: The diversity of opportunity. New York: Haworth Press.

Henry, D., Keys, C. B., Balcazar, F., & Jopp, D. (1996) The attitudes of community agency staff toward community living for persons with mental retardation. Mental Retardation, 34, 367-379.

Henry, D., Keys, C. B., & Factor, A., (in press) Actualizing values in services to older persons with developmental disabilities. in Janicki, M. P. & Ansello, E. (Eds.) Community supports for aging adults with lifelong disabilities. New York: Paul H. Brooks.

Henry, D., Keys, C. B., Jopp, D. & Balcazar, F. (1996) The Community Living Attitudes Scale: Development and psychometric properties. Mental Retardation. 34, 149-158.

Henry, D.B., Tolan, P.H., Gorman-Smith, D. (2001). Longitudinal family and peer group effects on violence and nonviolent delinquency. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 30, 172-186. 29, 345-360.

Huesmann, L. R., Maxwell, C., Eron, L., Dahlberg, L. L., Guerra, N. G., Tolan, P. H., VanAcker, R., & Henry, D. (1996). Evaluating a cognitive/ ecological program for the prevention of aggression in urban children. Preventive Medicine, 12,120-128.

Keys, C. B., Henry, D. & Schaumann, L. (1995) Using value-based job analysis to reduce staff turnover: An organizational culture case study. In M. Montero (Ed.) Psychology and Community: Proceedings of Community Psychology, XXV Interamerican Psychology Congress. Caracas, Venezuela: Community Psychology Division, Inter-American Society of Psychology.

Lutovsky, K., & Quintana, E., Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., Henry, D.B., Leventhal, A., Schoeny, M. (in press). Predictors of involvement in family focused preventive-intervention for substance use.

McGuire, D., Manghi, E., & Tolan, P. H. (1989). The family-school system: The critical focus for structural-strategic therapy with school behavior problems. Journal of Psychotherapy and the Family, 6, 107-127.

Metropolitan Area Child Study Group (e.g., Tolan P. H., Guerra, N.G., Henry, D., Huesmann, L. R., Eron, L. D., & Van Acker, R.) (In press). A Cognitive-Ecological Approach to Preventing Aggression in Urban Settings: Initial Outcomes for High-Risk Children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Naylor, K., Tolan, P. H., & Wilson, M. (1988). Acquaintance rape: A systems perspective. The Community Psychologist, 21, 20-21.

Sheidow, A.J., Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., & Henry D., (2001). Family and community characteristics: Risk factors for violence exposure in inner-city youth. Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 345-360.

Tolan, P. H. (1988). Delinquent behaviors and male adolescent development: A preliminary study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 17, 413-427.

Tolan, P.H. (In press). Emerging themes and challenges in understanding youth violence involvement. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology.

Tolan, P. H., (1990). Family therapy, substance abuse, and adolescents: Moving from isolated cultures to related components. Invited Essay Review. Journal of Family Psychology, 3, 454-465.

Tolan, P. H. (1989). Guidelines and pitfalls: Applying structural-strategic approaches in a multiple level perspective. Journal of Psychotherapy and the Family, 6, 151-156.

Tolan, P. H. (1996). How resilient is the concept of resilience? The Community Psychologist, 29, 12-15.

Tolan, P. H. (1989). Introduction: Treating behavior problems from a multi-level structural-strategic approach. Journal of Psychotherapy and the Family, 6, 1-8.

Tolan, P. H. (1990). Research training at DePaul University. The Community Psychologist, 23, 7-8.

Tolan, P. H. (1988). Socioeconomic, family, and social stress correlates of adolescents' antisocial and delinquent behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 16, 317-332.

Tolan, P.H. (in press). Strategies for increasing school safety. Choices Briefs.

Tolan, P. H. (1991). The impact of therapist outcome conception on child and adolescent family therapy. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 1(4), 61-78.

Tolan, P.H. (In press). Violence and injury prevention.

Tolan, P.H. (In press). Youth violence and its prevention in the United States: An overview of current knowledge. Journal of Injury Control & Safety Promotion.

Tolan, P. H., Cromwell, R. E., & Brasswell, M. (l986). The application of family therapy to juvenile delinquency: A critical review of the literature. Family Process, 25, 6l9-649.

Tolan, P.H. & Gorman-Smith, D. (2002). What violence prevention can tell us about developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 713-729.

Tolan, P.H., Gorman-Smith, D., Henry, D.B. (2003). Developmental ecology of urban males’ youth violence. Developmental Psychology, 39, 274-291.

Tolan, P.H., Gorman-Smith, D, & Henry D.B., (2002). Linking family violence to delinquency across generations. Children’s Service: Social Policy, Research & Practice. s, 5, 273-284.

Tolan, P.H., Gorman-Smith, D., Henry, D., Hunt, M., & Chung, K. (2002). The structure of coping of inner-city adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 11, 273-295.

Tolan, P. H., Gorman-Smith, D., Huesmann, L.R., & Zelli, A.(1997). Assessment of family relationship characteristics: A measure to explain risk for antisocial behavior and depression in youth. Psychological Assessment, 9,212-223.

Tolan, P.H., Gorman-Smith, D., & Loeber, R. (2000). Developmental timing of onsets of disruptive behaviors and later delinquency of inner-city youth. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 9, 203-220.

Tolan, P. H., & Guerra, N. G. (1994). Prevention of delinquency: Current status and issues. Journal of Applied and Preventive Psychology, 3, 251-273.

Tolan, P. H., & Guerra, N. G. (1996). Progress and prospects in youth violence prevention evaluation. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 12, 129-131.

Tolan, P. H., Guerra, N. G., & Kendall, P. (1995). A developmental- ecological perspective on antisocial behavior in children and adolescents: Towards a unified risk and intervention framework. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 579-584.

Tolan, P. H., Guerra, N. G., & Kendall, P. (1995). Introduction to special section on prediction and prevention of antisocial behavior in children and adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 515-517.

Tolan, P. H., Hanish, L., McKay, M., & Dickey, M. (2000). Measures for evaluating process in child and family interventions: An example in the prevention of aggression. Journal of Family Psychology.

Tolan, P. & Henry, D. (1996) Patterns of psychopathology among urban poor children: Comorbidity and Aggression Effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Tolan, P. H., Jaffe, C., & Ryan, K. (1988). Adolescents' mental health service use and provider, process, and recipient characteristics. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 17, 228-235.

Tolan, P. H., & Lorion, R. P. (1988). Multivariate approaches to the identification of delinquency-proneness in males. American Journal of Community Psychology, 16, 547-561.

Tolan, P. H., & Lounsbury, J. W. (1982). Community mental health ideology presented in high school health texts: A content analysis. Community Mental Health Journal, 18, 286-296.

Tolan, P. H., & McKay, M. (1996). Preventing serious antisocial behavior in inner-city children: An empirically based family prevention program. Family Relations, 45, 148-155.

Tolan, P. H., Miller, L., & Thomas, P. (1988). Perception and experience of types of social stress and self image among adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 17, 147-163.

Tolan, P. H., & Mitchell, M. E. (1990). Families and antisocial and delinquent behavior. Journal of Psychotherapy and the Family, 6, 29-48.

Tolan, P. H., Perry, M. S., & Jones, T. (l987). Delinquency prevention: An example of consultation in rural community mental health. Journal of Community Psychology, l5, 43-50.

Tolan, P. H., & Thomas, P. (1988). Correlates of delinquency participation and persistence. Criminal Justice and Human Behavior, 15, 306-327.

Tolan, P. H., & Thomas, P. (1995). The implications of age of onset for delinquency risk II: Longitudinal evidence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 23, 157-181.

VanAcker, R., Grant S. G., & Henry, D. (1996) Teacher and student behavior as a function of risk for aggression. Education and Treatment of Children, 19, 316-334.

Van Acker, R., Guerra, N. G., Tolan, P., Henry, D., Huesmann, L. R., & Eron, L. D. (in press) What can teachers and school personnel do to help prevent school violence and aggression: Implications from the epidemiological literature. Education and Treatment of Children.

Van Acker, R., Guerra, N. G., Tolan, P. H., Huesmann, L. R., Eron, L. D.,& Henry, D. (1997). An examination of school-based aggression: Examination of risk factors and prevention practices. Focus on Exceptional Children.

 

 
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