Abraham H. Wandersman
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- PhD Psychology University of Maryland, College Park
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- Bridging the Gap Between Prevention Research and Practice: The Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (2008) (1112)
- Sense of community in the urban environment: A catalyst for participation and community development (1990) (1087)
- What works in prevention. Principles of effective prevention programs. (2003) (1064)
- The Quality Implementation Framework: A Synthesis of Critical Steps in the Implementation Process (2012) (795)
- Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context (1990) (694)
- Community coalitions for prevention and health promotion. (1993) (662)
- Empowerment evaluation : knowledge and tools for self-assessment & accountability (1996) (639)
- Sense of community through Brunswik's lens: A first look. (1986) (552)
- Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities (2000) (546)
- The importance of neighbors: The social, cognitive, and affective components of neighboring (1985) (412)
- Community interventions and effective prevention. (2003) (403)
- Community Coalitions for Prevention and Health Promotion: Factors Predicting Satisfaction, Participation, and Planning (1996) (366)
- The physical environment of street crime: Defensible space, territoriality and incivilities. (1993) (346)
- Urban neighborhoods and mental health. Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity, resilience, and interventions. (1998) (339)
- An introduction to citizen participation, voluntary organizations, and community development: Insights for empowerment through research (1990) (329)
- Toward an Evidence-Based System for Innovation Support for Implementing Innovations with Quality: Tools, Training, Technical Assistance, and Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (2012) (310)
- Community Science: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice with Community-Centered Models (2003) (304)
- Unpacking Prevention Capacity: An Intersection of Research-to-practice Models and Community-centered Models (2008) (262)
- Benefits, costs, incentive management and participation in voluntary organizations: A means to understanding and promoting empowerment (1990) (258)
- Empowerment evaluation principles in practice (2005) (227)
- Citizen participation and emprowerment: The case of local environmental hazards (1995) (218)
- A practical implementation science heuristic for organizational readiness: R = MC2. (2015) (205)
- An ecological assessment of community-based interventions for prevention and health promotion: Approaches to measuring community coalitions (1996) (201)
- Citizen Participation and Community Organizations (2000) (198)
- Social support in the transition to parenthood (1980) (185)
- Predicting Undergraduate Condom Use with the Fishbein and Ajzen and the Triandis Attitude‐Behavior Models: Implications for Public Health Interventions1 (1991) (184)
- Who participates, who does not, and why? An analysis of voluntary neighborhood organizations in the United States and Israel (1987) (176)
- Getting to outcomes: a results-based approach to accountability (2000) (172)
- Developing a Community Science Research Agenda for Building Community Capacity for Effective Preventive Interventions (2005) (169)
- A Research Synthesis of the Evaluation Capacity Building Literature (2012) (159)
- Cognitive social learning and participation in community development (1984) (154)
- A Framework of Participation in Community Organizations (1981) (136)
- The Getting To Outcomes Demonstration and Evaluation: An Illustration of the Prevention Support System (2008) (136)
- Burdens and gratifications of caregiving: appraisal of parental care of adults with schizophrenia. (1993) (128)
- The Benefits and Costs of Volunteering in Community Organizations: Review and Practical Implications (1999) (124)
- Community and individual difference characteristics as influences on initial participation (1980) (123)
- Neighboring in an urban environment (1982) (122)
- Getting To Outcomes™ 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (2004) (118)
- Returning basic research to the community: A relationship between scientist and citizen. (1983) (116)
- Neighboring and its role in block organizations: An exploratory report (1983) (103)
- Empowerment Evaluation (2007) (101)
- Toward a framework for bridging the gap between science and practice in prevention: A focus on evaluator and practitioner perspectives (1997) (100)
- Technical Assistance to Enhance Prevention Capacity: a Research Synthesis of the Evidence Base (2016) (99)
- Attribution of Responsibility and Individual and Collective Coping with Environmental Threats (1992) (94)
- Neighborhood and community environments (1987) (91)
- Practical Implementation Science: Developing and Piloting the Quality Implementation Tool (2012) (88)
- Are people acting irrationally? Understanding public concerns about environmental threats. (1993) (87)
- An Empirical Exploration of a Framework of Organizational Viability: Maintaining Block Organizations (1985) (86)
- Toward a Social Ecology of Community Coalitions (1996) (84)
- Four Keys to Success (Theory, Implementation, Evaluation, and Resource/System Support): High Hopes and Challenges in Participation (2009) (83)
- User Participation (1979) (75)
- Levels of Analysis and Effects: Clarifying Group Influence and Climate by Separating Individual and Group Effects (1990) (70)
- Bridging Science and Practice in Violence Prevention: Addressing Ten Key Challenges (2008) (68)
- Promoting Science-based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Proactively Engaging the Three Systems of the Interactive Systems Framework (2008) (65)
- The perceptions of costs and benefits of high active versus low active groups in community coalitions at different stages in coalition development (1998) (63)
- Conference report: community-based health promotion--state of the art and recommendations for the future. (1997) (62)
- EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN THE UNDERGRADUATE TRANSFER STUDENT EXPERIENCE (2013) (62)
- Prevention Plus III: Assessing Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs at the School and Community Level. A Four-Step Guide to Useful Program Assessment. (1991) (60)
- Proceedings from the 9th annual conference on the science of dissemination and implementation (2017) (57)
- The Prevention Delivery System: Organizational Context and Use of Comprehensive Programming Frameworks (2008) (53)
- Black Participation in Voluntary Associations (1986) (53)
- Successful adoption and implementation of a comprehensive casework practice model in a public child welfare agency: Application of the Getting to Outcomes (GTO) model (2011) (53)
- Empowerment evaluation : knowledge and tools for self-assessment, evaluation capacity building, and accountability (2015) (52)
- Community Dynamics in Coping with Toxic Contaminants (1987) (51)
- Technical Assistance as a Prevention Capacity-Building Tool: A Demonstration Using the Getting To Outcomes® Framework (2009) (49)
- Fear of cancer and knowledge of cancer: a review and proposed relevance to hazardous waste sites. (1990) (48)
- Research and Action for Bridging Science and Practice in Prevention (2008) (47)
- Perceived costs and benefits of membership in a self-help group: Comparisons of members and nonmembers of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill (1993) (47)
- Using a Training-of-Trainers Approach and Proactive Technical Assistance to Bring Evidence Based Programs to Scale: An Operationalization of the Interactive Systems Framework’s Support System (2012) (47)
- Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation (2014) (44)
- Pilot Study of Strategies for Effective Weight Management in Type 2 Diabetes: Pounds Off with Empowerment (POWER) (2001) (44)
- Race, Place, and Neighboring: Social Ties among Neighbors in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Contexts (2010) (44)
- Humanism and Behaviorism: Dialogue and Growth (1976) (44)
- Comprehensive Quality Programming and Accountability: Eight Essential Strategies for Implementing Successful Prevention Programs (1998) (41)
- Getting to Outcomes (2014) (40)
- Community organizing and advocacy: Increasing the quality and quantity of mentoring programs (2006) (40)
- Advances in Bridging Research and Practice: Introduction to the Second Special Issue on the Interactive System Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (2012) (39)
- Incentives, Costs, and Barriers for Volunteers: A Staff Perspective on Volunteers in One State (1993) (39)
- Organizational climate correlates of viable urban block organizations (1983) (38)
- Getting To Outcomes™ 2004 (2004) (37)
- Empowerment evaluation: Principles and action. (2004) (37)
- User Participation in Planning Environments (1979) (34)
- Local Action on Behalf of Local Collectives in the U.S. and Israel: How Different Are Leaders from Members in Voluntary Associations? (1988) (34)
- Applying Comprehensive Quality Programming and Empowerment Evaluation to Reduce Implementation Barriers (2000) (34)
- Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) 2015: advancing efficient methodologies through community partnerships and team science (2016) (33)
- Preventing Underage Drinking: Using Getting to Outcomes with the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework to Achieve Results. RAND Technical Report. (2007) (33)
- Evidence-Based Sexuality Education Programs in Schools: Do They Align with the National Sexuality Education Standards? (2015) (32)
- Measuring knowledge of cancer. (1991) (31)
- Evidence-Based Interventions Are Necessary but Not Sufficient for Achieving Outcomes in Each Setting in a Complex World (2016) (30)
- Strengthening prevention performance using technology: a formative evaluation of interactive Getting To Outcomes. (2009) (30)
- Living near a hazardous waste facility: coping with individual and family distress. (1992) (28)
- Bridging the gap between research and practice in community‐based substance abuse prevention (2000) (27)
- The Readiness for Integrated Care Questionnaire (RICQ): An Instrument to Assess Readiness to Integrate Behavioral Health and Primary Care (2017) (26)
- A Systems Approach to Understanding and Enhancing Grassroots Organizations (1992) (25)
- Community coalition readiness for implementing something new: Using a Delphi methodology. (2019) (24)
- Empowerment Evaluation (2005) (24)
- The Plan Quality Index: An Empowerment Evaluation Tool for Measuring and Improving the Quality of Plans (1996) (24)
- Research versus practice in quality improvement? Understanding how we can bridge the gap (2018) (24)
- Empowering Community Groups with Evaluation Skills: The Prevention plus III Model (1996) (21)
- Roles assumed by a community coalition when creating environmental and policy-level changes (2003) (21)
- Getting To Outcomes: a community-based participatory approach to preventive interventions (2004) (21)
- Developing a Prevention Synthesis and Translation System to Promote Science-Based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy, HIV and STI Prevention (2012) (20)
- Community science and expanded school mental health: Bridging the research-to-practice gap to promote child well-being and academic success (2006) (20)
- Using the Getting to Outcomes (GTO) Model in a Statewide Prevention Initiative (2001) (20)
- Getting To Outcomes™: 10 Steps for Achieving Results-Based Accountability (2007) (20)
- Factors Influencing Implementation of Youth Physical Activity Interventions: An Expert Perspective (2016) (18)
- A R = MC2 readiness building process: A practical approach to support implementation in local, state, and national settings. (2021) (18)
- Updating the FORECAST formative evaluation approach and some implications for ameliorating theory failure, implementation failure, and evaluation failure. (2013) (17)
- Moving Forward With the Science and Practice of Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) (2014) (17)
- The Effects of High Density In A Juvenile Correctional Institution (1982) (17)
- Science and Community Psychology: Enhancing the Vitality of Community Research and Action (2005) (17)
- Developing performance-based contracts between agencies and service providers: Results from a Getting To Outcomes support system with social service agencies (2010) (17)
- Integrating empowerment evaluation and quality improvement to achieve healthcare improvement outcomes (2015) (17)
- Embedding Improvements, Lived Experience, and Social Justice in Evaluation Practice (2006) (16)
- Supporting Implementation of Expanded School Mental Health Services: Application of the Interactive Systems Framework in Ohio (2008) (16)
- A formative multi-method approach to evaluating training. (2016) (15)
- Assessing and Evaluating Residential Environments (1981) (14)
- Similarities and differences in caregiver adaptation: Focus on mental illness and brain injury. (1994) (13)
- Psychology and Urban Initiatives Professional and Scientific Opportunities and Challenges (1998) (13)
- SUSTAINING INNOVATIONS IN COMMUNITY PREVENTION SYSTEMS: A DATA‐INFORMED SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY (2013) (13)
- Framing the evaluation of health and human service programs in community settings: Assessing progress (1999) (12)
- Using Collaborative Coalition Processes to Advance Community Health, Well-Being, and Equity: A Multiple–Case Study Analysis From a National Community Transformation Initiative (2019) (12)
- Promoting Program Success and Fulfilling Accountability Requirements in a Statewide Community-Based Initiative (2003) (12)
- Development of a comprehensive measure of organizational readiness (motivation × capacity) for implementation: a study protocol (2020) (12)
- Evaluation for Improvement: A Seven-Step Empowerment Evaluation Approach for Violence Prevention (2009) (11)
- Long-Term Sustainability of Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions and Community Coalitions Survival: a Five and One-Half Year Follow-up Study (2017) (10)
- Cognitive Social Learning Variables and the Characteristics of Leaders1 (1986) (10)
- Community Prevention Handbook on Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (2009) (10)
- Readiness and Relationships Are Crucial for Coalitions and Collaboratives: Concepts and Evaluation Tools (2020) (9)
- PIE à la Mode: Mainstreaming Evaluation and Accountability in Each Program in Every County of a Statewide School Readiness Initiative (2003) (9)
- Bringing interventions to scale: Implications and challenges for the field of community psychology. (2017) (9)
- Perception of risk and toxic hazards. (1989) (9)
- Candidate Name Exposure and Voting: Two Field Studies (1981) (8)
- Present Risk, Future Risk Or No Risk - Measuring and Predicting Perceptions of Health Risks of a Hazardous Waste Landfill (1995) (8)
- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2007) (7)
- The Readiness, Resilience and Recovery Tool: An Emerging Approach to Enhance Readiness Amidst Disruption (2021) (7)
- Getting to Outcomes: A Best Practice Process to Help Schools Achieve Desired Outcomes. (2012) (7)
- Erratum to: Toward an Evidence-Based System for Innovation Support for Implementing Innovations with Quality: Tools, Training, Technical Assistance, and Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (2012) (7)
- Community mobilization for prevention and health promotion can work. (2001) (6)
- Mobilizing Communities for Positive Youth Development: Lessons Learned from Neighborhood Groups and Community Coalitions (2006) (6)
- Familiarity Breeds Success: A Field Study of Exposure and Voting Behavior (1974) (6)
- Measuring Fear Of Cancer: The Fear Of Cancer Index (1992) (6)
- Mentoring for Results: Accountability at the Individual, Program, Community, and Policy Levels (2005) (6)
- A hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial of group CBT for anxiety in urban schools: rationale, design, and methods (2015) (6)
- Empowerment evaluation is a systematic way of thinking: A response to Michael Patton (2015) (6)
- Dissemination of Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions and Policies (2019) (5)
- Neighborhood and Community Environments: Human Behavior and Environment. (1989) (5)
- How residents cope with living near a hazardous waste landfill: An example of substantive theorizing (1989) (5)
- Preventing Underage Drinking (2007) (5)
- Little (PSBA) GTO : 10 steps to promoting science-based approaches (PSBA) to teen pregnancy prevention using getting to outcomes (GTO) : a summary (2008) (5)
- Development of a Clinical-Academic-Community Collaboration to Improve Health Literacy (2020) (5)
- If translational research is the answer, what’s the question? Who gets to ask it? (2012) (5)
- Criteria of excellence IV. Collaboration and action. (1990) (4)
- The impact of density in a juvenile correctional institution : Research, recommendations, and policy implications (1981) (4)
- School, Community and Clinical Psychology Training and Working together in the Interdisciplinary School Mental Health Field (2010) (4)
- Getting To Outcomes™: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention (2006) (4)
- Introduction to Special Section (2003) (4)
- Using the ''Getting to Outcomes™'' Approach to Help Communities Prevent Underage Drinking (2007) (3)
- Using Implementation Mapping to Build Organizational Readiness (2022) (3)
- A scoping review of the evaluation and effectiveness of technical assistance (2022) (3)
- Prevention Research (2006) (3)
- Environmental threats: perception of risk, stress and coping (1994) (3)
- The Case of the Pinewood Landfill: The Politics of Risk, Rationality, and the Disposal of Hazardous Waste (2007) (3)
- Assessing Citizen Participation in a Community Mental Health Center (1982) (3)
- Building Organizational Readiness (Capacities x Motivation) for Implementation: A Research Synthesis of the Empirical Evidence (2020) (2)
- What can we learn from love canal?: A conversation with Lois Gibbs and Richard Valinsky (1985) (2)
- Implementation Science in Thailand: Design and Methods of a Geriatric Mental Health Cluster-Randomized Trial. (2021) (1)
- Innovative Methods in Evaluation (2018) (1)
- Facilitating Growth for All the Family in the Adjustment to a Newborn. (1976) (1)
- Getting toOutcomes®An Empowerment Evaluation Approach for CapacityBuilding and Accountability (2015) (1)
- Using readiness to understand implementation challenges in school mental health research. (2022) (1)
- Introduction: An introduction to environmental approaches and prevention (1985) (1)
- USING IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE TO ADVANCE MANAGEMENT OF DEMENTIA-RELATED BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY (2018) (1)
- Evaluating the Benefits of Proactive Community-Centered Technical Assistance (2009) (1)
- The community transformation map: A maturity tool for planning change in community health improvement for equity and well-being. (2021) (1)
- Celebratory reflections, appreciations, clarifications, and comments. (2017) (1)
- Important implementation constructs for federal agencies in health and human service settings that are selecting, monitoring, and supporting grantees (2020) (0)
- Self-Assessment Guide for University Prevention Programs Focused on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment (2021) (0)
- Learning From the Opportunities and Challenges of a Philanthropy-Private Sector Partnership (2018) (0)
- Celebrating the 21st anniversary of empowerment evaluation with our critical friends. (2017) (0)
- Elements for successful implementation of a clinic-based health literacy intervention (2022) (0)
- Decision letter for "A R = MC 2 readiness building process: A practical approach to support implementation in local, state, and national settings" (2020) (0)
- Developing a sustainability readiness strategy for health systems: Toolkit, interactive tools, and virtual support system. (2023) (0)
- Study protocol: cluster randomized trial of consultation strategies for the sustainment of mental health interventions in under-resourced urban schools: rationale, design, and methods (2022) (0)
- Social Psychology as Social Action. (1992) (0)
- Child Risk Assessment (2015) (0)
- The Promise of Interactional Psychology. (1979) (0)
- Bibliographic Listings (2009) (0)
- A Parenting Support System to Facilitate Parental Competence in the Postpartum Period. (1977) (0)
- Cultural adaptation of the Reducing Disability in Alzheimer’s Disease (RDAD) protocol for intervention to reduce behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in Thailand (2021) (0)
- Using cognitive interviews to improve a measure of organizational readiness for implementation (2023) (0)
- A Proactive, Systematic Approach to Building the Capacity of Technical Assistance Providers (2022) (0)
- 20 .W arner KE. Selling Smoke: Ciga- rette Advertising and Public Health. (2003) (0)
- Strengthening Prevention Performance Using Technology (2009) (0)
- A case study of the technical assistance using the GTO for school evaluation in Japan (2011) (0)
- An EmpowermentEvaluation Approach to Implementing With Quality at Scale The Quality Implementation Process andTools (2015) (0)
- 975 Building the boat while sailing: using formative evaluation to support program theory and implementation in the ihi scale initiative (2017) (0)
- Author response for "A R = MC 2 readiness building process: A practical approach to support implementation in local, state, and national settings" (2020) (0)
- Conclusion Reflections on Emergent Themes and Next StepsRevisited (2015) (0)
- Development and pilot test of criteria defining best practices for organizational sexual assault prevention (2022) (0)
- Examining readiness for implementing practice changes in federally qualified health centers: A rapid qualitative study. (2023) (0)
- Quality improvement / quality assurance tools and logic: Implementation and support applications (2011) (0)
- Local Action on Behalf of Local Collectives in the U.S. and Israel: How Different are Leaders from Members in Voluntary Associations? (1988) (0)
- Psychology, Environment, and the Pursuit of Life. (1979) (0)
- Quality Improvement / Quality Assurance ) for Implementing Innovations with Quality to Achieve Desired Outcomes (2011) (0)
- Mobilizing Communities for Positive Youth Development (2006) (0)
- FSYCItOLOGY THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT OF STREET CRIME: DEFENSIBLE SPACE, TERRITORIALITY AND INCIVILITIES 1 (1993) (0)
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