Psychoenvironmental Forces in Substance Abuse Prevention

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Szalay, Lorand B. (Συγγραφέας), Strohl, Jean Bryson (Συγγραφέας), Doherty, Kathleen T. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1999.
• Σειρά: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Cognitive psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Cognitive Psychology.

 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: Tracing Dispositions Affecting the Use of Harmful Substances -- The Assessment of Internal Dispositions Through Comparative Imaging -- Alcohol, Drugs: Images that Help to Identify Sources of Differences between Use and Non-use -- Additional Images (Friends, Fun) Useful in Tracing Psychological Dispositions to Use Alcohol and Drugs -- The System -- The Assessment of Vulnerability/Resistance Through Cognitive Mapping -- The Measurement of Vulnerability/Resistance -- Vulnerability and Resistance -- Criterion and Construct Validation of the Vulnerability/Resistance Measure -- Tracing the Effects of Background and Lifestyle on the Use of Harmful Substances -- Background and Group Membership -- Lifestyles Affecting Vulnerability to Substance Abuse -- Academic Performance and Lifestyles that Build Resistance -- Tracing Environmental Influences Cultural and Social -- Cultural Factors in Substance Abuse -- Acculturation—Its Impact on Substance Abuse -- The Phantom Power of Environmental Influences -- Program Development and Culturally Adapted Training -- Applications: Diagnostics, Program Planning, and Evaluation -- An Early Warning System -- Planning and Targeting Programs Based on Imaging and Mapping -- Program Evaluation, Feedback by Measuring Vulnerability/Resistance -- The Latest Developments and Future Perspectives -- Some of the Well-known Approaches to Drug Prevention -- The Latest Scientific Developments Open a Window on Propensities -- Comprehensive Prevention.