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Family check-up: positive parenting prevents the abuse of drugs
Recommendation for parents, with tips on parenting positive to prevent substance abuse. The material includes links to videos of examples.
Marijuana facts for teens
NIDA. (2015, may 1). Facts about marijuana to teenagers. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/es/publicaciones/hechos-sobre-la-marihuana-para-adolescentes in 2018, February 15
Did you know that the use of marijuana among teens has...
Marijuana Facts for Teens
NIDA. (2015, May 14). Marijuana: Facts for Teens. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/marijuana-facts-teens on 2018, February 15
Did you know that teen marijuana use has dropped dramatically since the late 1990s? So, if...
Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioural Health Services
For anyone interested in digital health behaviour interventions this manual from SAMHSA will prove interesting. Exploring how technology-assisted care can be implemented, the value of technology based assessments and the ways in which the...
Individual and Contextual Factors Associated with Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cannabis Use among Chilean Adolescents
Abstract
We studied the association between individual and contextual variables and the use of tobacco, alcohol, or cannabis in the last 30 days preceding the study, considering the hierarchical nature of students nested in schools. We...
Trends in Adolescent Alcohol Use in the Netherlands
ABSTRACT
Background: From an international perspective, studying trends in adolescent alcohol use in the Netherlands is an important case study. Whereas Dutch adolescents topped the international rankings of alcohol consumption in the...
Parent Management Training-Oregon Model in Mexico City: Integrating Cultural Adaptation Activities in an Implementation Model
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This article describes the process of cultural adaptation at the start of the implementation of the Parent Management Training intervention-Oregon model (PMTO) in Mexico City. The implementation process was guided by the model...
Preventive guidelines for children, teenagers, parents and teachers (Mexico)
In the context of strategies to respond to this problem, the National Commission against Addictions in Mexico, developed a complete package of psychoeducational strategies, specifically intended to prevent the use of tobacco, alcohol and...
Cost-Effectiveness Study of Interventions to Prevent Alcohol Abuse in Mexico
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Introduction
In Mexico, alcohol abuse involves overhead costs in terms of premature mortality caused by their related health problems. It is estimated that by itself it implies 9% of the total burden of disease in the country...
Effectiveness of a Brief Intervention Based on Motivational Interviewing in Colombian Adolescents
Prevention science has identified evidence-based strategies for reducing alcohol and other drug use among adolescents, such as Brief Interventions (BI) and Motivational Interviewing (MI). However, there is little evidence about...
The Irie Classroom Toolbox: A Cluster Randomised Trial of a Universal Violence Prevention Programme in Jamaican Preschools
Helen Baker-Henningham, Marsha Bowers, Taja Francis, Susan Walker
Introduction: Violence is a leading global public health problem and makes a substantial contribution to the burden of disease at the global level. Interventions in early...
The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Program in Norway: Effects of a Universal Preventive Effort in Regular School- and Kindergarten Settings
Merete Aasheim
Introduction: Students, who show early onset of risk factors linked to behavior problems, are in increased risk for academic underachievement, school failure and dropout, as well as duration of mental health problems...
Trajectories of Marijuana Use in Canadian Youth and Associations with Substance Use, Mental Health, and Behavioral Problems in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Bonnie Leadbeater, Kara Thompson, Gabriel "Joey" Merrin, Megan E Ames
Introduction: Compared to other countries, Canadian youth are the highest users of marijuana in the developed world, with 28% of youth under 15 reporting marijuana use...
Sustaining Fidelity in Wide-Scale International Implementation
Marion Sue Forgatch
To improve the reach of evidence based interventions, we require science-based implementation systems and a way to ensure that programs are delivered with sustained model fidelity. Direct observation of intervention...
Parent Training: Effects Beyond Problem Behavior?
Silje Hukkelberg
Introduction: Brief Parent Training (BPT) and Parent Management Training- the Oregon model (PMTO) are interventions that both are proven effective in reducing emerging/existing conduct problem behaviors in children...
Can Health Care Efforts to Reduce Child Behavior Problems Also Reduce Social Risk? Unintended Collateral Benefits in Parent Training
Introduction: Lack of family resources, social risk, has been found to negatively impact development of child behavior problems. Thus, improving families’ access to resources, and thereby reducing social risk, would certainly benefit...
The Risk of Doing Activities Because There Is Nothing Else to Do
Mojdeh Motamedi, Linda Lee Caldwell, Damon Evan Jones, Lisa Wegner, Edward Allan Smith
Introduction: Building on the previous findings that boredom is a predictor of sexual debut, this study examines how targeting youth’s leisure, a...
Using Boredom to Compare Competing Sexual Risks in Adolescence
Eric K Layland, Linda Lee Caldwell, Nilam Ram, Lisa Wegner
Introduction: Early and risky sex in adolescence are related to transmission of HIV/AIDS and other STDs and unintended pregnancy. Sexual debut often co-occurs with other risky...