Psychoenvironmental Forces in 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. Introduction....Pages 1-18 Alcohol, Drugs: Images that Help to Identify Sources of Differences between Use and Non-use....Pages 21-31 Additional Images (Friends, Fun) Useful in Tracing Psychological Dispositions to Use Alcohol and Drugs....Pages 33-54 The System....Pages 55-73 The Measurement of Vulnerability/Resistance....Pages 77-85 Vulnerability and Resistance....Pages 87-101 Criterion and Construct Validation of the Vulnerability/Resistance Measure....Pages 103-109 Background and Group Membership....Pages 113-131 Lifestyles Affecting Vulnerability to Substance Abuse....Pages 133-146 Academic Performance and Lifestyles that Build Resistance....Pages 147-159 Cultural Factors in Substance Abuse....Pages 163-177 Acculturation—Its Impact on Substance Abuse....Pages 179-191 The Phantom Power of Environmental Influences....Pages 193-210 Program Development and Culturally Adapted Training....Pages 211-231 An Early Warning System....Pages 235-245 Planning and Targeting Programs Based on Imaging and Mapping....Pages 247-260 Program Evaluation, Feedback by Measuring Vulnerability/Resistance....Pages 261-277 Some of the Well-known Approaches to Drug Prevention....Pages 281-294 The Latest Scientific Developments Open a Window on Propensities....Pages 295-306 Comprehensive Prevention....Pages 307-314 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.