Despite significant progress in research on the treatment and prevention of psychological, behavioral, and health problems, the translation of this knowledge into population-wide benefit remains limited. This paper reviews the state of America’s children and families, highlighting the influence of stressful contextual and social conditions on child and family well-being and the concentration of disadvantage in numerous neighborhoods and communities throughout the nation. It then briefly reviews the progress that has been made in pinpointing policies that can reduce stressful contextual conditions such as poverty, discrimination, and the marketing of unhealthful foods and substances. It also describes numerous family and school interventions that have proven benefit in preventing psychological and behavioral problems as diverse as tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; depression; antisocial behavior; academic failure; obesity prevention; and early childbearing. We argue that progress in translating existing knowledge into widespread benefit will require a nationwide effort to intervene comprehensively in neighborhoods and communities of concentrated disadvantage. We present a strategic plan for how such an effort could be organized. The first step in this organizing would be the creation of a broad and diverse coalition of organizations concerned with advancing public health and well-being. Such a coalition could increase public support both for the policies needed to focus on these disadvantaged areas and the research needed to incrementally improve our ability to help these areas.

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加强美国家庭的战略计划：行为科学组织联盟的简介。


尽管在治疗和预防心理、行为和健康问题的研究方面取得了重大进展，但将这些知识转化为全民受益的程度仍然有限​​。本文回顾了美国儿童和家庭的状况，强调了压力环境和社会条件对儿童和家庭福祉的影响，以及全国众多邻里和社区中弱势群体的集中。然后，它简要回顾了在制定政策方面取得的进展，这些政策可以减少贫困、歧视以及不健康食品和物质的营销等压力性环境条件。它还描述了许多家庭和学校的干预措施，这些干预措施已被证明有助于预防各种心理和行为问题，如吸烟、酗酒和其他药物的使用；沮丧;反社会行为；学业失败；预防肥胖；和早育。我们认为，要将现有知识转化为广泛的利益，需要在全国范围内努力对弱势群体进行全面干预。我们提出了一项关于如何组织此类努力的战略计划。这一组织的第一步将是建立一个广泛而多样化的组织联盟，关注促进公共卫生和福祉。这样的联盟可以增加公众对关注这些弱势地区所需的政策以及逐步提高我们帮助这些地区的能力所需的研究的支持。