The Use of a Brief Alcohol Use Screener to Identify Adolescents at Risk for School Discipline due to Externalizing Behaviors

Tubman, Jonathan G.; Meca, Alan; Schwartz, Seth J.; Egbert, Andrew

doi:10.1111/josh.12629

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“…Recent research with the present sample has indicated that adolescents’ alcohol use were associated with co-occurring delinquent and aggressive behaviors. 61 This highlights opportunities for SBIRT approaches for underage alcohol use to generalize to minority adolescents’ co-occurring externalizing behaviors. For example, our results suggest that youth screening positive for alcohol misuse are likelier to manifest externalizing behaviors, suggesting these youth would benefit from strategies targeting a range of problem behaviors, not limited to alcohol use.…”

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Relations among Externalizing Behaviors, Alcohol Expectancies and Alcohol Use Problems in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Middle and High School Students

2020

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Background: Alcohol expectancies and externalizing behaviors, that is, aggression and rule-breaking behaviors, are associated with underage alcohol use. The interactive influence of these risk factors on problem alcohol use among minority adolescents is investigated in the present study. Objectives: This study examined the unique and interactive influences of alcohol expectancies and externalizing problems on specific measures of adolescents’ (a) past three-month binge drinking episodes and (b) negative consequences of alcohol use. Methods: Cross-sectional self-report data were collected in 2014 via tablet-based computerized assessments from a predominantly minority sample of 762 (404 females, Mage = 13.73 years, SDage =1.59) 6th, 8th, and 10th grade students recruited from public middle and high schools in Miami-Dade County, FL and Prince George’s County, MD. Students completed surveys on tablets in school settings regarding alcohol expectancies, expectancy valuations, externalizing problem behaviors, past 3-month binge drinking episodes, and experiences of alcohol-related negative consequences. Results: Zero-inflated negative binomial regressions indicated: (1) older adolescents were more likely to report binge drinking; and (2) a significant main effect for externalizing problem behaviors on binge use. Logistic regressions indicated (1) older adolescents were more likely to endorse an alcohol-related negative consequence and (2) the interaction between positive alcohol expectancies and externalizing behaviors was associated with endorsing an alcohol-related negative consequence. Conclusions: Engaging adolescents who exhibit serious externalizing behaviors and report positive alcohol expectancies via developmentally appropriate, tailored interventions is one feasible strategy to address escalation of binge alcohol use and related negative consequences among minority youth.

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Relations among Externalizing Behaviors, Alcohol Expectancies and Alcohol Use Problems in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Middle and High School Students

2020

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“…For example, higher Self Alcohol Risk scores (i.e., client past-year drinking days) were significantly associated with measures of rule-breaking behavior, overt aggressive behavior and attributions of the legitimacy of aggressive behavior. In addition, Peer Alcohol Risk scores (i.e., the client has friends who drink) were significantly associated with scores for aggressive behavior, rule-breaking behavior, and experiences of being bullied (Tubman et al, 2018). With regard to health risk behaviors, Self Alcohol Risk scores were significantly associated with riding with an impaired driver, cigarette use, marijuana use and unplanned sex.…”

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Using the NIAAA brief alcohol screener in social work practice for selected prevention targeting youth

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Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions

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This article discusses the use of brief screeners in social work practice to identity adolescents in need of selected interventions for alcohol and other drug use problems. Brief screeners can increase access to alcohol or other drug intervention services and promote the diffusion of evidence-based interventions to underserved communities when integrated in Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) initiatives. The two-item NIAAA Brief Alcohol Use Screener is discussed as a developmentally tailored assessment tool that can be integrated into SBIRT in social work practice to improve detection of early-stage alcohol problems among adolescents who lack routine access to preventative health care. The use of brief, empirically supported alcohol screeners in trainings for social work students and new professionals can enhance their preparation and competence to offer child and adolescent clients appropriate selected intervention options to reduce harms associated with underage alcohol use.

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The Use of a Brief Alcohol Use Screener to Identify Adolescents at Risk for School Discipline due to Externalizing Behaviors

Cited by 2 publications

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Relations among Externalizing Behaviors, Alcohol Expectancies and Alcohol Use Problems in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Middle and High School Students

Relations among Externalizing Behaviors, Alcohol Expectancies and Alcohol Use Problems in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Middle and High School Students

Using the NIAAA brief alcohol screener in social work practice for selected prevention targeting youth

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