Dr. K. Ostaszewski received his doctorate
from the University of Warsaw, Department of Education.
His primary research focus is on pre-interventive and intervention
programming of drug/alcohol abuse and the effectiveness
of prevention programs for children and adolescents. He
is interested in identifying protective and risk factors
in adolescent problem behaviors which can be modified by
educational strategies.
Dr. Ostaszewski is Head of the Youth Prevention
Unit in the Department of Mental Health Promotion, at the
Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland.
During his professional career, he was involved in several
projects aimed at development and dissemination of evidence-based
alcohol and drug prevention programs for children and adolescents
in Poland. One of them, conducted in cooperation with the
University of Minnesota, resulted in the Polish version
of the Slick Trace Home Team Program (a part of Project
Northland), an American alcohol prevention program targeting
10-11 year olds and their parents.
Dr. Ostaszewski is currently a Research
Fellow within the Fogarty International Substance Abuse
Research Program conducted by the University of Michigan
Section of Substance Abuse and Addiction Research Center.
Within this program, he is involved in: (1) The Flint Adolescent
Study, a longitudinal research project focused on exploring
the protective factors associated with adolescent development
and problem behavior and (2) in The Fathers and Sons Project,
a prevention project focused on African American non-resident
fathers and their pre-adolescents sons.
Dr. Ostaszewski is active in teaching in
the field of primary substance abuse prevention, prevention
programming and evaluation. He is a part-time teacher at
the Warsaw University, Department of Education.
