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Here are just a few examples of Kernels with preventive or treatment effects:
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Structured, cooperative recess or playground activities, with or without adult reinforcement, reduce aggression, violence, bullying, ADHD symptoms and injuries as well as improve social competence, peer acceptance, academic achievement and BMI (Body Mass Index).
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A simple 15-minute “secret” writing exercise, about deeply held values by African-American 7th graders, improves their academic success for 18 months or more.
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A recipe of several kernels, used in first-grade only, dramatically reduces lifetime problematic behavior, ADHD symptoms, oppositional defiance, conduct disorders, cocaine use, serious drug use, alcohol abuse, and increases high school graduation in multiple, randomized control group studies with long-term follow-up.
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A simple kernel recipe for peer-to-peer tutoring in classrooms reduces special education placement, increases social competence, reduces historic disparities, and improves academic success into adolescence.
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An inexpensive contingency-management protocol dramatically improves substance abuse treatment outcomes for alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamine and poly drug use.
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A simple diet change (recommended by the American Heart Association and the American Psychiatric Association) reduces costly diseases, disorders and problems like heat attacks, cancer, bipolar disorder, developmental disorders, and even violence and homicide.
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