Sentences with phrase «preventing adolescent substance»

Efficacy of a self - administered home - based parent intervention on parenting behaviors for preventing adolescent substance use

For Whom Do Parenting Interventions to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use Work?.

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Alternatively, a focus could be placed on a view to better preventing acid attacks by legislatively making it harder for adolescents to gain access to corrosive substances.

Preventing substance abuse among children and adolescents.

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

, Preventing youth substance abuse: Science - based programs for children and adolescents (pp. 185 - 210).

This initiative produced the award - winning Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know, a definitive guide book for mental health professionals; a series of four books for parents, counselors and others concerned with the prevention and treatment of mental disorders in adolescents; and eight books for teens designed to help them cope with prevalent mental health disorders, including depression and substance abuse.

The interventions examined are Preparing for the Drug - Free Years Program (PDFY)[now called Guiding Good Choices], the Iowa Strengthening Families Program (ISFP), and a minimal - contact control condition on preventing substance use in adolescents.

This randomized controlled trial examined Preparing for the Drug - Free Years Program (PDFY)[now called Guiding Good Choices], the Iowa Strengthening Families Program (ISFP), and a minimal - contact control condition on parenting behaviors to prevent substance and alcohol abuse in adolescents.

Evidence - based family skills training programmes have been found to be the most effective way to prevent substance use among children and adolescents after nurse home - visitation programmes.

Thus, treatment - as - usual provided by the only psychiatric service for adolescents with substance misuse in a large urban center in Sweden failed to prevent the persistence of substance misuse.

Family - centered program to prevent substance use, conduct problems, and depressive symptoms in Black adolescents

The understanding that adolescence is a developmental period that involves substantial risk for maladaptive behavioral outcomes (e.g., delinquency, substance abuse; Hawkins et al. 1992), and that family factors are consistent predictors of adolescent functioning (Kumpfer et al. 1998), has prompted extensive efforts to prevent risk for negative outcomes (e.g., association with antisocial peers) and promote positive aspects of family functioning through skills - building (e.g., teaching effective parenting behaviors).

Preventing early adolescent substance use: A family - centered strategy for the public middle - school ecology