Drug Free Youth: A Compendium for Prevention Specialists / Edition 1

by Elaine Norman, Fordham University Staff

Overview

First published in 1997. There is an almost universal consensus that we as adult individuals, as communities, and as a nation, should attempt to prevent our youngsters from using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. For three and a half years, from 1990 to 1994, a team of researchers and clinical practitioners from Fordham University's Graduate School of Social Service, with funding from the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services, worked to review the literature published in the past two decades pertaining to the content and outcomes of adolescent substance abuse prevention programs which had been fielded during that twenty-year period. The results were presented to over a thousand substance abuse prevention specialists in a series of seminars throughout New York State. This book is a result of a need of effective strategies and training for those present were working in the field, in schools and community agencies, attempting to accomplish adolescent substance abuse prevention.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815320470
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1997
Series:	Garland Reference Library of Social Science Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Edited by Professor Elaine Norman

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Adolescent Development: Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience, Carol P. Kaplan; Chapter 2 Prevention Programs Reviewed: What Works?, Elaine Norman, Sandra Turner, Sharyn J. Zunz, Kathy Stillson; Chapter 3 School Climate and Community Norm Change, Sharyn J. Zunz; Chapter 4 New Directions: Looking at Psychological Dimensions in Resiliency Enhancement, Elaine Norman; Chapter 5 Building on Strengths: Risk and Resiliency in the Family, School, and Community, Sandra Turner; Chapter 6 Resilience in African American Adolescents: Issues Pertinent to Alcohol and Other Substance Use, Saundra Murray Nettles; Chapter 7 Did We Make a Difference?: Techniques and Process in Program Evaluation, Michael Phillips; Chapter 8 Funding Substance Abuse Prevention Programs for Youth, Roslyn H. Chernesky;