Normative Approaches To The Prevention Of Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism
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| Author | : Institute of Medicine |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 761 |
| Release | : 2004-03-26 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0309089352 |
Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.
| Author | : National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Alcoholism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : H. Wesley Perkins |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2003-02-24 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 078796459X |
The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse offers educators, counselors, and clinicians a handbook for understanding and implementing a new and highly successful alternative to traditional methods for preventing substance abuse among young people. The proven "social norms" approach outlined in this book identifies young people's dramatic misperceptions about their peer norms and promotes accurate public reporting of actual positive norms that exist in all student populations. The contributors to this important book are the originators, pioneers, and active proponents of this new approach. Many of them have successfully applied the social norms approach in secondary and higher education settings and as a result have promoted healthier lifestyles among adolescents and young adults across the United States.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 478 |
| Release | : 1981-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0309031494 |
| Author | : Linda A. Dimeff |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1999-01-08 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781572303928 |
This instructive manual presents a pragmatic and clinically proven approach to the prevention and treatment of undergraduate alcohol abuse. The BASICS model is a nonconfrontational, harm reduction approach that helps students reduce their alcohol consumption and decrease the behavioral and health risks associated with heavy drinking. Including numerous reproducible handouts and assessment forms, the book takes readers step-by-step through conducting BASICS assessment and feedback sessions. Special topics covered include the use of DSM-IV criteria to evaluate alcohol abuse, ways to counter student defensiveness about drinking, and obtaining additional treatment for students with severe alcohol dependency. Note about Photocopy Rights: The Publisher grants individual book purchasers nonassignable permission to reproduce selected figures, information sheets, and assessment instruments in this book for professional use. For details and limitations, see copyright page.
| Author | : Office of the Surgeon General |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2017-08-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781974580620 |
All across the United States, individuals, families, communities, and health care systems are struggling to cope with substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders. Substance misuse and substance use disorders have devastating effects, disrupt the future plans of too many young people, and all too often, end lives prematurely and tragically. Substance misuse is a major public health challenge and a priority for our nation to address. The effects of substance use are cumulative and costly for our society, placing burdens on workplaces, the health care system, families, states, and communities. The Report discusses opportunities to bring substance use disorder treatment and mainstream health care systems into alignment so that they can address a person's overall health, rather than a substance misuse or a physical health condition alone or in isolation. It also provides suggestions and recommendations for action that everyone-individuals, families, community leaders, law enforcement, health care professionals, policymakers, and researchers-can take to prevent substance misuse and reduce its consequences.
| Author | : United States Department of Transportation |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1985-02-01 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0309034493 |
Alcohol is a killerâ€"1 of every 13 deaths in the United States is alcohol-related. In addition, 5 percent of the population consumes 50 percent of the alcohol. The authors take a close look at the problem in a "classy little study," as The Washington Post called this book. The Library Journal states, "...[T]his is one book that addresses solutions....And it's enjoyably readable....This is an excellent review for anyone in the alcoholism prevention business, and good background reading for the interested layperson." The Washington Post agrees: the book "...likely will wind up on the bookshelves of counselors, politicians, judges, medical professionals, and law enforcement officials throughout the country."
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 577 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0190275332 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Alcoholism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mitchell J. Prinstein |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2008-05-13 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1593853971 |
Scientists, educators, and parents of teens have long recognized the potency of peer influences on children and youth, but until recently, questions of how and why adolescents emulate their peers were largely overlooked. This book presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the processes by which peers shape each other's attitudes and behavior, and explores implications for intervention and prevention. Leading authorities share compelling findings on such topics as how drug use, risky sexual behavior, and other deviant behaviors "catch on" among certain peer groups or cliques; the social, cognitive, developmental, and contextual factors that strengthen or weaken the power of peer influence; and the nature of positive peer influences and how to support them.
