Psychoenvironmental Forces and Substance Abuse Prevention (Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics)

Psychological vulnerabilities and environment influences are the most powerful forces shaping the behavior and choices of students to use harmful substances. This book employs computer-assisted Associative Group Analysis technology of comparative imaging and cognitive mapping to identify these factors and offers new perspectives for more comprehensive risk assessments and effective prevention. For more than 20 years, the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan has been monitoring marijuana use among high school seniors nationwide, and it is widely considered the most authoritative research on adolescent behavior and attitudes regarding drug use.