This document summarizes a training course on preventing failed interventions in behavioral research. The course covered topics like examples of reasons for failed interventions, sample size calculations, intervention mapping, and biases in outcome measures. Key lessons learned included the importance of involving the target population, using intervention mapping to plan studies, monitoring and evaluating interventions, and learning from previous research failures. The training will help in developing future phases of the author's PhD project designing a self-management intervention for teens with epilepsy.