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Overview and Perspective

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This handbook aims to provide an experience-based description of intervention research, using the Intervention Research Framework to guide higher degree by research students through the intervention research process. The Intervention Research Framework describes the step-by-step process for scientifically planning, developing and evaluating an intervention research program. Throughout this handbook, a school-based alcohol harm reduction program for early secondary school students conducted in Australia, by the author, is used to illustrate the Intervention Research Framework processes.

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McBride, N. (2016). Overview and Perspective. In: Intervention Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1011-8_1

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