Fast Track Project Summary

The readings this week on the Fast Track Project provided insight to preventing severe conduct problems in youth in accordance with the program. Both readings discussed how the Fast Track Project works and the research behind it. They also provide their own experimental research to the project. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (2010) goes more into dept about how the project works in different stages of development as far as elementary school and middle school is concerned. They also found in their research that the Fast Track Project could provide help to the adolescence in their adult lives. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (2015) extended this to research adults after the Fast Track Project and showed how, in the long run, the project can prevent mental disorders (e.g. antisocial personality disorder) and increase well being (e.g. lowered risk of substance abuse). Both showed an approximately 30% difference between their control group and the experimental group. With these low results, the Fast Track Project should be changed. …show more content…
This is a huge investment and the first stage of the program should be available in schools through the school counsellor. With the first stage of the program being integrated into a school counsellors training, the cost of the program could be cut. This would be extremely beneficial for those families who cannot afford this kind of burden and in turn increase the number of adolescence in the program, reducing problem behaviour even further. Furthermore, starting the program in schools would capture more students that are at risk and display early stages of conduct problems, compared to just the adolescence that are targeted according to their contextual risk