PSY341H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intellectual Disability, Standard Deviation, Language Disorder
Document Summary
Prevalence and course: campaigns and advertisement working ie/cigarette smoking declining in adolescents. Cormbid mental health condition will meet for substance abuse disorder. Study increase across the drugs in adolescents in alcohol is the leading drug, followed by marijuana and other illicit drugs. Age of onset: if start to engage in this behaviour before 14 then in a different at risk group. If starting under age of 14, then very strong predictor for meeting criteria for abuse disorder in adulthood. Longer the behavior starts, so start at 15 the correlation weakens. Longer the adolescent waits, the weaker correlation goes to meeting criteria. Stronger the connection in the brain becomes, the neural activity is creating that pathway, the longer it is happening the harder it is to break that because dealing with pattern of behaviour and neural activity that is ingrained. So more likely will not be successful with that individual.
