SOC 3382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Longitudinal Study, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Drug Education
12 Nov 2020
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Training refusal skills: based on films demonstrating the kinds of social pressures that peers might use to encourage smoking and modeling a variety of appropriate responses, students engage in practicing these refusal skills. Public commitment: children are made to promise in front of peers to not start smoking, children are asked to sign a pledge not to smoke. Countering advertising: teaching students to analyze and discover the hidden messages in ads, teaching how these messages differ from the actual effects of smoking. Normative education: students tend to overestimate peer smoking, presenting factual information about smoking trends, reducing everybody is doing it attitude. Use of teen leaders: using older students as role models. Drug abuse resistance education, dare: developed in 1983 in los angeles, spread rapidly and found in every state by 1990s. Contains many components of earlier prevention models: delivered by trained, uniformed police officers.
