Parents and Teens Together (PATT): Software Development for a Dyadic Digital Intervention to Prevent Substance Use Disorders (SUD)

Parents and Teens Together (PATT): Software Development for a Dyadic Digital Intervention to Prevent Substance Use Disorders (SUD)

Parents and Teens Together (PATT) is a planned digital indicated prevention program for young teens experimenting with substance use (SU) and their families that provides accessible and individualized teaching and support for implementing evidence-based family practices for SUD prevention. PATT combines a blended, virtual and health coach-led, single session intervention for personalized parent and teen instruction on evidence-based family practices with an mHealth app delivering a JITAI to support the use of those practices in daily life.

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Principal Investigator

Amy Hughes Lansing
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological Science
University of Vermont

Key Collaborators

Inbal Nahum-Shani, University of Michigan
Susan Murphy, Harvard University

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