Because the researcher is the instrument in semistructured or unstructured qualitative
interviews, unique researcher characteristics have the potential to influence the collection of …

This paper reports on the evaluation of a culturally grounded prevention intervention
targeting substance use among urban middle-school students. The curriculum consists of 10 …

… Michelle Miller-Day, Ph.D., is an associate professor of communication arts and sciences
at the Pennsylvania State University. She has published in the area of personal relationships …

Some of the first, and potentially most important, steps that researchers must take in the field
are those related to rapport development with their participants. Both novice and …

This article describes a Narrative Engagement Framework (NEF) for guiding communication-based
prevention efforts. This framework suggests that personal narratives have distinctive …

… Author Michelle Miller-Day integrates and juxtaposes … Miller-Day incorporates aged mothers
and younger mid-life … With the inclusion of three generations of women, Miller-Day offers …

Research addressing parent–child communication on the topic of alcohol use relies heavily
on assessing frequency of discussions and general assessments of openness in parent–…

… Finally, my gratitude goes out to Michelle Miller, without whom this project would not have
… My deepest appreciation goes out to Michelle, Jess, Michael, and Melanie. It was their hard …

A central challenge facing twenty-first century community-based researchers and prevention
scientists is curriculum adaptation processes. While early prevention efforts sought to …

For this study, 67 adolescent African American and Caucasian adolescents were interviewed
about their parent-adolescent conversations regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (…