Persuasive Communication And Drug Abuse Prevention

Author : Lewis Donohew,Howard E. Sypher,William J. Bukoski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136469961

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Persuasive Communication and Drug Abuse Prevention by Lewis Donohew,Howard E. Sypher,William J. Bukoski Pdf

The history of drug abuse prevention campaigns suggests limitations in producing measurable changes in behavior. In the past, there was concern over the possibility of such publicity actually encouraging interest in drug use, rather than discouraging such behavior. Although little or no scientifically sound empirical evidence has been found to support such a view, several social science textbooks still refer to this as something of which to be wary. Reviews of early research appear to indicate inadequate methods and a lack of rigor in theory testing. In recent years, however, research in communication and its uses in drug abuse prevention has become considerably more sophisticated, and communication is being used far more effectively. In this book, the editors bring together some of the most successful drug abuse prevention researchers in the country -- along with other experts in this field or in persuasive communication -- to address use and effects of both mass media and interpersonal strategies. This collection illustrates just how far the study of public influence through mass media has come, especially regarding such a vital, relevant issue as drug abuse prevention.

Author : William D. Crano,Michael Burgoon,Stuart Oskamp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135662073

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Mass Media and Drug Prevention by William D. Crano,Michael Burgoon,Stuart Oskamp Pdf

This book tells the story of the mass media's potential in the war against drug abuse. It is based on scientific evidence on the use of media in health promotion and disease prevention. Past approaches--successes and failures alike--are included to help enlighten future programs of research and practice. Advice about the logical steps that must be taken to help alleviate the crisis of drug abuse is featured throughout. The book will appeal to social scientists interested in persuasion and the media Each chapter offers information to help the conscientious practitioner maximize persuasive effects of a mass-mediated presentation.

Author : Zili Sloboda,William J. Bukoski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387354088

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Handbook of Drug Abuse Prevention by Zili Sloboda,William J. Bukoski Pdf

This wide-ranging handbook brings together experts in the sociology of drug abuse prevention. Providing a comprehensive overview of the accumulated knowledge on prevention theory, intervention design, and development and prevention research methodology, this work also promotes prevention science as an evolving field in the practice and policy of drug abuse prevention.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309046275

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Preventing Drug Abuse by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention Research Pdf

As the nation's drug crisis has deepened, public and private agencies have invested huge sums of money in prevention efforts. Are the resulting programs effective? What do we need to know to make them more effective? This book provides a comprehensive overview on what we know about drug abuse prevention and its effectiveness, including: Results of a wide range of antidrug efforts. The role and effectiveness of mass media in preventing drug use. A profile of the drug problem, including a look at drug use by different population groups. A review of three major schools of prevention theory-risk factor reduction, developmental change, and social influence. An examination of promising prevention techniques from other areas of health and human services. This volume offers provocative findings on the connection between low self-esteem and drug use, the role of schools, the reality of changing drug use in the population, and more. Preventing Drug Abuse will be indispensable to anyone involved in the search for solutions, including policymakers, anti-drug program developers and administrators, and researchers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : MINN:31951P00074305V

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Drug Abuse Prevention Intervention Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mangai Natarajan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351942775

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Drug Abuse: Prevention and Treatment by Mangai Natarajan Pdf

Ever since the Shanghai convention in 1909, the threat posed to human well-being by drug abuse has led countries around the world to take action to deal with their drug problems. There are wide variations in the policies pursued, but most countries try to reduce both the supply of and the demand for drugs. Unfortunately, there is little research consensus on the respective merits of these two approaches or about the best ways to pursue them. Consequently, control and prevention policies are mostly driven by political considerations, economic realities and cultural expectations, though research has played an important part in formulating and evaluating treatments for drug addiction. This volume reviews studies on drug abuse prevention and treatment strategies under five main areas: 1. Reducing supply - strategies to control the flow of drugs from production to retail distribution; 2. Reducing demand - prevention of drug use at all stages of involvement and consumption levels; 3. Reducing harm - promoting situational risk reduction practices for regular users, addicts and recreational users; 4. Reducing addiction - drug treatment options for various groups in various settings; and 5. Drug policies and prescriptions - focused on debates about prohibition and legalization.

Author : Robert A. Zucker,Sandra A. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199735662

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The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse by Robert A. Zucker,Sandra A. Brown Pdf

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 : William D. Crano,Michael Burgoon,Stuart Oskamp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135662080

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Mass Media and Drug Prevention by William D. Crano,Michael Burgoon,Stuart Oskamp Pdf

This book tells the story of the mass media's potential in the war against drug abuse. It is based on scientific evidence on the use of media in health promotion and disease prevention. Past approaches--successes and failures alike--are included to help enlighten future programs of research and practice. Advice about the logical steps that must be taken to help alleviate the crisis of drug abuse is featured throughout. The book will appeal to social scientists interested in persuasion and the media Each chapter offers information to help the conscientious practitioner maximize persuasive effects of a mass-mediated presentation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112083882016

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Adolescent Health: Background and the effectiveness of selected prevention and treatment services by Anonim Pdf

This three volume work presents the Office of Technology's assessment of the physical, emotional, and behavioral health status of contemporary American adolescents, including those living in poverty, racial and ethnic minority groups, Native Americans, and rural adolescents. Specific topics covered are identifying risk and protective factors for adolescent health problems, evaluating options in the organization of health services and technologies available to adolescents, assessing options in the conduct of national health surveys to improve collection of adolescent health statistics, and identifying gaps in research on the health and behavior of adolescents.

Author : Marilyn D. McShane,Franklin P. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 0815325118

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Drug Use and Drug Policy by Marilyn D. McShane,Franklin P. Williams Pdf

The articles in this collection provide an overview of the research and writing on this topic between 1991 and 1995.

Author : Michael T. Bardo,Diana H. Fishbein,Richard Milich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441912688

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Inhibitory Control and Drug Abuse Prevention by Michael T. Bardo,Diana H. Fishbein,Richard Milich Pdf

The purpose of this book is to review our state of knowledge about the neurobehavioral and psychosocial processes involved in behavioral inhibitory processes and to provide an insight into how these basic research findings may be translated into the practice of drug abuse prevention interventions. Over the last decade, there has been a wealth of information indicating that substance use disorders do not simply reflect an exaggeration of reward seeking behavior, but that they also represent a dysfunction of behavioral inhibitory processes that are critical in exercising self-control. A number of studies have determined that individuals with substance use disorders have poor inhibitory control compared to non-abusing individuals. In addition, the fact that the adolescent period is often characterized by a lack of inhibitory control may be one important reason for the heightened vulnerability for the initiation of drug use during this time. Controlled experiments utilizing neuroscience techniques in laboratory animals or neuroimaging techniques in humans have revealed that individual differences in prefrontal cortical regions may underlie, at least in part, these differences in inhibitory control. Although a few excellent journal reviews have been published on the role of inhibitory deficits in drug abuse, there has been relatively little attention paid to the potential applications of this work for drug abuse prevention. The current book will provide both basic and applied researchers with an overview of this important health-relevant topic. Since translational research cuts across multiple disciplines and most readers are not familiar with all of these disciplines, the reading level will be geared to be accessible to graduate students, as well as to faculty and researchers in the field. The book will be organized around three general themes, encased within introductory and concluding chapters. The first theme will review basic neurobehavioral research findings on inhibition and drug abuse. Chapters in this theme will emphasize laboratory studies using human volunteers or laboratory animals that document the latest research implicating a relation between inhibition and drug abuse at both the neural and behavioral levels of analysis. The second theme will move the topic to at-risk populations that have impulse control problems, including children, adolescents and young adults. The third theme will concentrate on prevention science as it relates to inhibitory control. Chapters in this theme will be written by experts attempting to develop and improve prevention interventions by integrating evidence-based knowledge about inhibitory control processes. In all of the chapters, writers will be asked to speculate about innovative approaches that may be useful for the practice of prevention.

Author : Carl G Leukefeld,Richard R Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317837411

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Prevention Practice in Substance Abuse by Carl G Leukefeld,Richard R Clayton Pdf

Here is helpful information about joint activities for prevention researchers and practitioners. Prevention Practice in Substance Abuse provides cutting-edge information related to prevention research and practice. Too frequently, researchers and practitioners do not communicate from a basic understanding of concepts and principles. This book begins to fill that void by providing information and recommendations for practitioners and researchers to develop projects jointly so both groups become more effective in their work. Chapters in Prevention Practice in Substance Abuse are grouped into three areas: background chapters contain information related to prevention in the United States, data-based chapters present the most recent national and international evaluation findings, and conceptual chapters stimulate thought about drug abuse prevention. A concluding chapter explores recommendations for joint activities and presents methods for both practice and research to enhance knowledge development. Specific topics addressed by the contributing authors include: mass media campaigns morality and substance abuse Hungarian adolescent drug abuse parenting practices social influences-oriented substance abuse prevention curricula choosing a paradigm to guide research and practice Prevention Practice in Substance Abuse is an ideal guide for drug and alcohol practitioners and researchers who wish to become more effective in their work using strategies for cooperating with each other to combat the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Adolescent
ISBN : MINN:31951D00349744P

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Adolescent Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : UOM:39015018791205

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NIDA Research Monograph by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Information services
ISBN : UCSD:31822019280916

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Effective Dissemination of Clinical and Health Information by Anonim Pdf