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REVIEW OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Miranda Novak “An Empirical Study on Implementation Quality in Prevention Programs”

Miranda Novak, research assistant on the Department of behavioural disorders at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences has defended her doctoral dissertation “An empirical study on implementation quality in prevention programs” on 11th of March 2013. That was the final stage of the doctoral programme Prevention science: prevention of mental and behavioural disorders. Doctoral dissertation was written in English under the mentorship of professor Clemens Hosman, PhD (Radboud University of Maastricht and Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Celene Domitrovich, PhD (Penn State University). President of the committee for the dissertation approval and defence was professor Josipa Bašić, PhD while other two members were professor Gordana Pavleković, PhD (Faculty of Medicine) and associate professor Damir Ljubotina, PhD (Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology). The doctoral dissertation of Miranda Novak titled An empirical study on implementation quality in prevention programs. It makes a positive contribution to the field of prevention science and to the future of prevention practice and prevention policy in Croatia, and is relevant to the international development of scientific knowledge and assessment tools on implementation quality.To our knowledge of authors, there has not been as extensive and international review of implementation processes in mental health promotion and prevention that has been published in Europe. Implementation quality is essential for achieving effective prevention practice and presents one of the most important challenges to this work. The current review and empirical study offers a highly needed input to the further development of the field not only within Croatia, but in Europe as a whole.

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