Preventing Adolescent Substance Abuse Through Life Skills Training (From Fourteen Ounces of Prevention: A Casebook for Practitioners, P 98-110, 1988, Richard H Price, Emory L Cowen, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-127997)

• NCJ Number: 127998
• Author(s): G J Botvin; S Tortu
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 13 pages
• Sale Source: American Psychological Assoc
• Publication Type: Program Description (Model)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Life Skills Training is a substance abuse prevention program that is designed for use with junior high school students and that uses a psychoeducational approach that has similarities to other programs as well as unique characteristics.

Abstract

The program rests on awareness that the conventional approaches based on the provision of factual information have been ineffective. As with other psychoeducational approaches, Life Skills training teaches students how to resist social influences to smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, or use other drugs. However, a distinguishing feature is that it teaches these resistance skills within the context of a broader program designed to enhance generic personal and social skills. Evaluation studies conducted over the past 10 years have shown the program to be successful in reducing tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use. Chart, detailed description of program components and implementation steps, and 43 references