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If a school wishes to set up a new prevention program, it is hoped it makes choices based on evidence and not on opinion. To implement an evidence-based intervention, the ideal process is to search again for best practice instructions on how to do so, but such instructions are often vague or not supported by research. Many times, the school follows a general rule: “stick to exact application of the program as designed.” That, however, does not seem to be possible in the classroom. This chapter contributes to the discourse on how to improve instructions for quality program implementation in school-based prevention programs and can be an inspiration for implementation in other settings, too.
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van der Kreeft, P., Jongbloet, J., Van Havere, T. (2014). Factors Affecting Implementation: Cultural Adaptation and Training. In: Sloboda, Z., Petras, H. (eds) Defining Prevention Science. Advances in Prevention Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7424-2_14
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