Toward an Understanding of the Connections in Creating Lasting Family Connections. Alternative Therapies May 2021 View Journal Publication Full Citation Shamblen, S. R., Strader, T. N., Collins, D. A., McKiernan, P., Kokoski, C., & Arnold, B. B. (2018). Toward an Understanding of the Connections in Creating Lasting Family Connections. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 46(4), 390-404. Abstract The Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) program is designed to help improve relationship skills and reduce antisocial behaviors. Strader and colleagues propose that prosocial connectedness is responsible for program outcomes. We propose that the intersection of high agreeableness and low impulsivity represent an operational definition. We examined this definition in the context of a RCT with 246 men in prison reentry. CLFCFP increased the number of connected individuals. Being connected and the program independently impacted relationship skills, but no evidence was found to support the hypothesis that the program impacts would be more pronounced among those who were connected. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)