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Carolyn L. Williams
Researcher at University of Minnesota
Publications - 64
Citations - 3727
Carolyn L. Williams is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 64 publications receiving 3664 citations.
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Primary prevention of acculturative stress among refugees. Application of psychological theory and practice.
TL;DR: Research suggesting that refugees are an at-risk population, making them especially suitable for public health interventions, is summarized, given its importance to prevention in refugee mental health.
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Project Northland: outcomes of a communitywide alcohol use prevention program during early adolescence
Cheryl L. Perry,Carolyn L. Williams,Sara Veblen-Mortenson,Traci L. Toomey,Kelli A. Komro,Pamela S. Anstine,Paul G. McGovern,John R. Finnegan,Jean L. Forster,Alexander C. Wagenaar,Mark Wolfson +10 more
TL;DR: The results of Project Northland suggest that multilevel, targeted prevention programs for young adolescents are effective in reducing alcohol use.
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Project Northland: long-term outcomes of community action to reduce adolescent alcohol use
Cheryl L. Perry,Carolyn L. Williams,Kelli A. Komro,Sara Veblen-Mortenson,Melissa H. Stigler,Karen A. Munson,Kian Farbakhsh,Resa M. Jones,Jean L. Forster +8 more
TL;DR: Developmentally appropriate, multi-component, community-wide programs throughout adolescence appear to be needed to reduce alcohol use among adolescents in northeastern Minnesota.
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Do friendships change behaviors, or do behaviors change friendships? Examining paths of influence in young adolescents' alcohol use.
TL;DR: Support for models of peer influence, which postulates that young adolescents whose friends use alcohol will also engage in that behavior, and of peer selection, whereby young adolescents seek out friends whose drinking behavior is similar to their own are examined, indicate that higher levels of friends' drug use led to increased participant alcohol use.