FrameWorks Institute is supporting this important work by investigating the communications
aspects of adolescent substance use.
This, together with evidence from other studies that «brand awareness» has strong relationships with cinema - going, internet use, chat room visits, listening to music and TV - watching among early adolescents, 13 and that smoking is associated with fashion - consciousness, particularly among young women, 32 suggests that image and identity may be important mechanisms linking consumerism with these two
aspects of adolescent substance use.
Not exact matches
Professor Prinz argues that the parenting - focused
aspects of child maltreatment prevention can extend beyond the original goal, including the prevention
of childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems; the reduction
of risk for adverse
adolescent outcomes (such as
substance use, delinquency and academic failure); and parental engagement for school readiness.
Substance use disorders emerged in middle adolescence and increased in frequency through the middle 20s, becoming by far the most common psychiatric problems reported by the study participants.26, 27 We have already shown that early conduct problems predicted the onset of adolescent substance use disorders in this sample, 28,29 and it is not surprising that this is the aspect of behavioral problems that showed the intervention effect in young a
Substance use disorders emerged in middle adolescence and increased in frequency through the middle 20s, becoming by far the most common psychiatric problems reported by the study participants.26, 27 We have already shown that early conduct problems predicted the onset
of adolescent substance use disorders in this sample, 28,29 and it is not surprising that this is the aspect of behavioral problems that showed the intervention effect in young a
substance use disorders in this sample, 28,29 and it is not surprising that this is the
aspect of behavioral problems that showed the intervention effect in young adulthood.
Multiple
aspects of family functioning have been explored, such as parents»
substance use (Chassin, Rogosch, & Barrera, 1991), parental monitoring (Dishion & Loeber, 1985), family support / cohesion (Wills & Cleary, 1996), and parent /
adolescent communication (Windle, 1999), providing support for a linkage between each domain
of family functioning and
adolescents»
substance use.
In particular, the care taken to address issues
of biological plausibility and the attempts to link specific
aspects of the clinical phenotype to different genes is notable and provides a platform for examining the role
of candidate genes on
adolescent substance use.