Enhancing Junior High School Students' Life Skills as a Smoking Prevention Strategy

Renick, Nancy L.; Botvin, Gilbert J.

doi:10.1080/00970050.1985.10614471

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“…Selective interventions developed and tested in the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 2000s show evidence in support of approaches designed to decrease risk and increase protective factors involving one or domains of individual, peer, family, school, and community ( 16 ). Several such models exist in the literature: The Family Management Model of Adolescent Substance Abuse ( 14 ); The Intensive Family Prevention Services Model ( 33 ); The Social Ecological Model of Adolescent Substance Abuse ( 34 ); Communities that Care ( 35 ); Life Skills ( 36 , 37 ); Strengthening Families ( 34 ); Focus on Kids ( 38 ); Multisystemic Therapy ( 39 ), and PROSPER ( 40 ), to name a few. Many of these evidence-based programs appear in repositories such as the SAMHSA Evidence-Based Practice Resource Center (URL: https://www.samhsa.gov/ebp-resource-center ), Social Programs that Work (URL: http://evidencebasedprograms.org ), and the Coalition for Evidence-based Policy (URL: http://toptierevidence.org ).…”

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Almost Everything We Need to Better Serve Children of the Opioid Crisis We Learned in the 80s and 90s

Horn

Pack

Trestman

et al. 2018

Front. Public Health

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Opioid use disorder impedes dependent parents' abilities to care for their children. In turn, children may languish in unpredictability and persistent chaos. Societal responses to these children are often guided by a belief that unless the drug dependent parent receives treatment, there is little help for the child. While a preponderance of the drug dependence research is adult-centric, a significant body of research demonstrates the importance of not only addressing the immediate well being of the children of drug dependent caregivers but preventing the continuing cycle of drug dependence. The present commentary demonstrates through a brief review of the US history of drug dependence crises and research from the 1980s and 1990s, a range of “tried and true” family, school, and community interventions centered on children. We already know that these children are at high risk of maladjustment and early onset of drug dependence; early intervention is critical; multiple risk factors are likely to occur simultaneously; comprehensive strategies are optimal; and multiple risk-focused strategies are most protective. Where we need now to turn our efforts is on how to effectively implement and disseminate best practices, many of which we learned in the 1980s and 1990s. The greatest opportunity in both changing the nature of the opioid epidemic at scale and influencing rapid translation of existing research findings into policy and practice is not in asking what to do, but in asking how to do the right things well, and quickly.

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Almost Everything We Need to Better Serve Children of the Opioid Crisis We Learned in the 80s and 90s

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Pack

Trestman

et al. 2018

Front. Public Health

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The prevention of cigarette smoking in children: Two- and three-year follow-up comparisons of four prevention strategies

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Recent studies have suggested that a prevention program that addresses the social influences that encourage smoking can be effective in deterring cigarette use by adolescents. This study presents 1-, 2-, and 3-year follow-up results from two studies which evaluated three variations of the social influences curriculum and compared them to a health consequences program and a usual-care comparison group. These results suggest that a peer-led, social influences program can restrain smoking among both baseline nonsmokers and baseline experimental smokers at 2 years postintervention. Analyses of attrition data suggest no evidence to threaten the internal validity of these findings, although their generalizability to baseline smokers may be limited.

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Developing Comprehensive Smoking Control Programs in Schools

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Simons‐Morton

Harvey

et al. 1988

Journal of School Health

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During the school years, students encounter peer influences and role models who encourage smoking initiation. To counteract these influences, schools can provide comprehensive programs that include smoking prevention and cessation education and a supportive nonsmoking environment. In the past several years, programs and information have become available to help schools establish curricula to address smoking and to create nonsmoking environments. In addition, state and local governments have acted to legally restrict smoking in schools or to require smoking content in curricula. Efforts can be categorized into three avenues of intervention: student education, school and school system policy, and governmental regulation. Resources are suggested for each category to assist in developing a comprehensive intervention to foster nonsmoking by children and adolescents in the school setting.

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Enhancing Junior High School Students' Life Skills as a Smoking Prevention Strategy

Cited by 6 publications

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Almost Everything We Need to Better Serve Children of the Opioid Crisis We Learned in the 80s and 90s

Almost Everything We Need to Better Serve Children of the Opioid Crisis We Learned in the 80s and 90s

The prevention of cigarette smoking in children: Two- and three-year follow-up comparisons of four prevention strategies

Developing Comprehensive Smoking Control Programs in Schools

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