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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: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309089352 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 761
Book Description
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: Caitlin Emily Lance Publisher: ISBN: Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages Languages : en Pages : 638
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Adolescents are consuming alcohol at risky levels at younger ages and more frequently than preceding generations. As a result they are being exposed to increased risk of long-term health problems, possible neurological damage, violence and even death. Research currently indicates that peers have significant influence on consumption patterns, particularly through perceived norms of alcohol related behaviour. Considerable resources have been invested in developing interventions based on these findings. Evaluations have yielded mixed results. However little research has been conducted on the impact of such normative influence across the adolescent period; the majority of studies have been conducted with university students. Research with younger adolescents tends to focus on parental influence while studies with older adolescents has mostly been focused on the influence of peers. Given the clear need for both prevention and intervention throughout adolescence, the main objective of the current studies is to develop a greater understanding of the role of beliefs about peers, parents and self on alcohol related beliefs and behaviours across the adolescent period. Accordingly, Study One surveyed adolescents ranging from ages 12-19 (n = 610) regarding their alcohol consumption, their beliefs about themselves, and their perceptions of the alcohol related beliefs and behaviours of their peers and parents. Consistent with previous research, evidence was found for the existence of a discrepancy between self-reported consumption and perceived peer consumption, with best friends being perceived to consume more alcohol more frequently than the self, and typical students being perceived to consume more again. Both peers and parents were found to influence adolescent alcohol consumption with different patterns of influence emerging in mid-adolescence compared to late adolescence. Perceived alcohol related behaviour of the typical student only emerged as a predictor in the mid-adolescence sample. Study Two was designed as a result of finding that participants' perceptions of their parents' beliefs about appropriate adolescent alcohol consumption were a consistent predictor of their consumption patterns in Study One. The study (n = 132) investigated the relationship between parental beliefs and the use of three alcohol specific parenting strategies: the availability of alcohol in the home, setting alcohol specific rules, and the use of consequences in implementing those rules. Stricter beliefs about appropriate consumption were related to higher likelihood of rules and consequences, and lower levels of alcohol availability in the home. Of the three parenting strategies, setting alcohol specific rules was the strongest predictor of alcohol use, binging, and alcohol related problems. Overall, these findings extend previous research, suggesting the impact of perceived normative consumption on alcohol related beliefs and behaviours differ across phases of adolescence, with perceptions of the typical student's behaviour being most influential in the mid-adolescent period. Perceived behaviours of close friends consistently showed the strongest influence. It is also clear that while peers, especially close peers, exert considerable influence; parental attitudes and the parenting strategies employed also have a significant impact on adolescent consumption. Implications for the development of age appropriate interventions, particularly those conducted in educational contexts, and for future research are discussed.
Author: Robert A. Zucker Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190673869 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 704
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Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem. It originates out of a developmental era where experimentation with the world is increasingly taking place, and where major changes in physical self and social relationships are taking place. These changes cannot be understood by any one discipline nor can they be described by focusing only on the behavioral and social problems of this age period, the characteristics of normal development, or the pharmacology and addictive potential of specific drugs. They require knowledge of the brain's systems of reward and control, genetics, psychopharmacology, personality, child development, psychopathology, family dynamics, peer group relationships, culture, social policy, and more. Drawing on the expertise of the leading researchers in this field, this Handbook provides the most comprehensive summarization of current knowledge about adolescent substance abuse. The Handbook is organized into eight sections covering the literature on the developmental context of this life period, the epidemiology of adolescent use and abuse, similarities and differences in use, addictive potential, and consequences of use for different drugs; etiology and course as characterized at different levels of mechanistic analysis ranging from the genetic and neural to the behavioural and social. Two sections cover the clinical ramifications of abuse, and prevention and intervention strategies to most effectively deal with these problems. The Handbook's last section addresses the role of social policy in framing the problem, in addressing it, and explores its potential role in alleviating it.
Author: Philippe De Witte Publisher: Presses univ. de Louvain ISBN: 2875580892 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 221
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This book explores the extent of underage drinking across Europe and North America, as well as our current understanding of factors that increase the risk of this behaviour and potentially effective evidence-based approaches to prevent underage drinking.
Author: Jerald G. Bachman Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1135643873 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 341
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This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage, pregnancy, parenthood--contribute to declines in substance use. The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood examines how the changes in social and religious experiences and in attitudes toward substance use observed among young adults are related to changes in substance use, family transitions, living arrangements, college experience, and employment. The research uses a variety of analysis techniques and is based on the nationwide Monitoring the Future surveys of more than 38,000 young people followed from high school into adulthood. The research covers the last quarter of the 20th century, a period when drug use and views about drugs underwent many important changes. In spite of these shifts, the overall patterns of relationships reported in this book are impressive in their consistency across time and in their general similarity for men and women. Specific questions addressed include the following: *As young adults experience new freedoms and responsibilities, do their attitudes about drugs change? *Do their religious views and behaviors shift? *Do their new freedoms and responsibilities affect the amount of time they spend in social activities, including going to parties and bars? *And how are any of these changes linked to changes in cigarette use, alcohol use, marijuana use, and cocaine use?
Author: Maya Sabatello Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004173412 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 313
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Only scant attention has been given to the issue of childrena (TM)s bioethics. Even when such a discourse took place, it hardly touched upon children as social agents. In this novel work, Maya Sabatello looks at the a oebody politicsa of religious and cultural medical practices - from a oeharmful traditional practicesa to genetic engineering. Building on literature from medical anthropology, cultural studies, disability studies, social sciences, and law, she explores the international discourse on childrena (TM)s bioethics from a previously uncharted child-centered approach. In light of the existing multiculturalism, she contends that in the discourse on children's bioethics, not only must the medical, social and, anthropological nexus of the child be taken into account, but that incorporating identity claims into the legal discourse is also essential for the childa (TM)s voice to be heard.
Author: Michael Windle Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1452265070 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 136
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Adolescent alcohol use is prominent among today′s teens and has elicited rising concerns among parents, health practitioners, social policymakers, and the public at large. Yet there is an absence of a relatively concise book that summarizes and integrates existing knowledge on the various facets of adolescent alcohol use. This book attempts to fill this void by integrating research from the multiple fields of study (e.g., prevalence of use), describing measurement approaches (e.g., survey and clinical diagnostic), reviewing risk and protective factors, reporting on findings from prominent prevention and treatment studies, and suggesting future research directions. The coverage is intended to examine issues relevant to etiology, developmental courses, and prevention and treatment, as well as to identify future research directions.
Author: Geoff Lowe Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9783718654130 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 224
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This book portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the context of the home environment. Drinking is a predominantly social behaviour and the family is seen as a major agent of socialization. The authors have therefore explored family dynamics and the influence which the home environment has upon adolescent drinking to come up with a new theoretical model. A major feature of this approach is the interaction of ideas from family life psychology and human geography. The authors present a typology of domestic regimes illustrated by case studies of boundary enforcement and transgression. The general theme of boundary transgression, applied here to both the psychosocial environment and built form, represents an interesting new theoretical perspective. The integration of these two fields is an innovation which should stimulate further interdisciplinary work in adolescence and addiction research. Adolescent Drinking and Family Life will be invaluable to researchers and practitioners in adolescence, family dynamics, and alcohol as well as any social scientist with an interest in the link between behaviour and the home environment. This new approach has important implications for health education and for interventions concerned with adolescent alcohol use.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Caitlin Emily Lance
Author: Robert A. Zucker
Author: Philippe De Witte
Author: Jerald G. Bachman
Author: Maya Sabatello
Author: Gayle M. Boyd
Author: Michael Windle
Author: Audrey H. Hurley
Author: Geoff Lowe