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Author: Chelsie Marie Young Publisher: ISBN: Category : Alcoholism Languages : en Pages :
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This study combines personalized normative feedback (PNF) and expressive writing into a brief intervention to reduce drinking among undergraduates. Limitations of PNF interventions include reactance, defensiveness, and a lack of attention to and adequate processing of the information. Adding a writing component to PNF interventions may compensate for these limitations and boost intervention efficacy. The present study evaluated whether increasing cognitive processing and reducing defensiveness and reactance in response to PNF through an expressive writing task would improve the efficacy of this brief intervention tool. Participants included 244 University of Houston students who met screening criteria, correctly answered two out of three check questions, and were randomized to receive either: 1) PNF about their alcohol use; 2) expressive writing about a heavy drinking occasion; 3) PNF plus expressive writing; or 4) attention control feedback about their technology use. One month post-baseline, 169 participants completed a follow-up survey asking about their past month alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. Results revealed that the PNF plus writing condition significantly reduced drinking via the AUDIT-C and reduced alcohol-related consequences at follow-up compared to control. Further, intervention effects were moderated by factors such as readiness to change, intentions for drinking, depth of processing of the feedback, and cognitive processing language in the narratives. Findings have implications for future alcohol intervention efforts among college student drinkers.
Author: Chelsie Marie Young Publisher: ISBN: Category : Alcoholism Languages : en Pages :
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This study combines personalized normative feedback (PNF) and expressive writing into a brief intervention to reduce drinking among undergraduates. Limitations of PNF interventions include reactance, defensiveness, and a lack of attention to and adequate processing of the information. Adding a writing component to PNF interventions may compensate for these limitations and boost intervention efficacy. The present study evaluated whether increasing cognitive processing and reducing defensiveness and reactance in response to PNF through an expressive writing task would improve the efficacy of this brief intervention tool. Participants included 244 University of Houston students who met screening criteria, correctly answered two out of three check questions, and were randomized to receive either: 1) PNF about their alcohol use; 2) expressive writing about a heavy drinking occasion; 3) PNF plus expressive writing; or 4) attention control feedback about their technology use. One month post-baseline, 169 participants completed a follow-up survey asking about their past month alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. Results revealed that the PNF plus writing condition significantly reduced drinking via the AUDIT-C and reduced alcohol-related consequences at follow-up compared to control. Further, intervention effects were moderated by factors such as readiness to change, intentions for drinking, depth of processing of the feedback, and cognitive processing language in the narratives. Findings have implications for future alcohol intervention efforts among college student drinkers.
Author: Keri B. Dotson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 43
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Personalized normative feedback (PNF) has shown promise as a stand-alone intervention for reducing alcohol use among college students. PNF uses norms clarification to correct drinking norms misperceptions by highlighting discrepancies between personal alcohol use, perceived peer alcohol use, and actual peer alcohol use. Previous reviews of personalized feedback interventions have identified norms clarification as key a component, prompting researchers to study PNF as a single-component intervention for college drinking. As the number of publications focused on PNF effectiveness has increased in recent years, an empirical review of these studies is warranted to assess the potential impact of PNF as a stand-alone program. The purpose of the present study was to summarize available research and to perform a meta-analytic review of personalized normative feedback as a stand-alone intervention for college student drinking. Studies were included if they examined a stand-alone PNF drinking intervention, used a college student sample, reported alcohol use outcomes, and used a pre-post experimental design with follow-up at least 28 days post-intervention. Eight studies (13 interventions) completed between 2004 and 2014 were included. Effect size estimates (ESs) were calculated as the standardized mean difference in change scores between treatment and control groups. Compared to control participants, students who received PNF reported a greater reduction in drinking and harms from baseline to follow-up. Results were similar for both gender-neutral and gender-specific PNF. Overall, intervention effects for drinking were small but reliable. This study offers an empirical summary of stand-alone PNF for reducing college student drinking and provides a foundation for future research.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309089352 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 761
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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: Angela Meade Eggleston Publisher: ISBN: Category : Binge drinking Languages : en Pages : 121
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Abstract: Excessive and harmful alcohol consumption is especially common among college students in the United States and is associated with proximal and distal psychiatric and medical morbidity. Brief, individual interventions that provide either risk and normative feedback or normative feedback alone have been shown to particularly efficacious with high-risk college drinkers. The relative efficacy of the two types of feedback has not been determined, however. The current study compares the efficacy of these two interventions with a sample of high-risk college drinkers. It also provides preliminary data on purported mechanisms of change: risk- and norm-perception. College students (n = 1197) were screened for alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. The top quartile of this sample (n = 299), in terms of alcohol use severity, was randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions: risk and normative feedback, normative feedback alone or assessment only. All treatment conditions included a baseline assessment session and the feedback conditions included an in-person feedback session. One hundred and fifteen participants successfully completed their assigned condition. Thirty-eight participants (33%) completed an assessment six months later. Overall, findings did not replicate the existing literature supporting the efficacy of these feedback interventions. Neither feedback group showed appreciable, unqualified reductions in alcohol consumption or alcohol-related problems at follow-up. Primary predictors of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems at follow-up were the baseline measures of these variables. Furthermore, the relationships between baseline and follow-up measures were often qualified by an interaction effect, with individuals who consumed more alcohol or experienced more alcohol-related problems, relative to other participants, being more likely to have a negative response to treatment. Finally, there were no group differences on purported mechanisms of change. Findings may be explained by methodological and sample differences between this study and other, related studies, as well as by social and cognitive mechanisms.
Author: Kate Thompson Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1475807740 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 253
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Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth, and skill-building. Therapists, coaches, healthcare professionals, and educators have known for decades that expressive writing is a powerful tool for better living, learning, and healing. But until now, few have had access to practical applications that have proven successful. In this groundbreaking collection, you’ll discover: how expressive writing can call us into healing community exciting new discoveries about how writing can support neuroplasticity and actually help change our brains—and thus our thinking and behavior new research on the role of expressive writing for prevention of compassion fatigue in RNs how transformative writing can create art from the ashes of trauma the role of journal writing for emotional balance sensible ideas about the synergy of expressive writing and play therapy for children, teens, and adults interventions and strategies for the use of expressive writing in acute psychiatric care how interactive expressive writing helps deaf teens communicate inarticulate feelings and thoughts how cancer survivors can use expressive writing to reclaim identity and strength post-treatment the role of expressive writing in developing the roots of resilience for practitioners
Author: Chelsie Marie Young
Author: Chelsie Marie Young
Author: Tania Rendón
Author: Pavel Dietz
Author: Keri B. Dotson
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Renee Ann Lojewski
Author: Jacqueline A. Bush
Author: Angela Meade Eggleston
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Author: Kate Thompson