Prevention is Intervention
Providing programs and interventions that take place prior to the onset of a substance use disorder in order to prevent or reduce the risk of developing a behavioral health problem
What Is Prevention?
Providing programs and interventions that take place prior to the onset of a substance use disorder in order to prevent or reduce the risk of developing a behavioral health problem, such as underage alcohol use, prescription drug misuse and abuse, and illicit drug use.
These interventions include curricula, programs, policies and procedures that decrease risk and enhance protective factors associated with substance use.
PROTECTIVE FACTORS
Community
- Community life
- Supportive relationships outside the home (coaches, teachers, etc.)
- Pro-Social peer group (teams, clubs, etc.)
- Child’s involvement in religious youth activities
- Child’s involvement in pro-social activities
- Child is close to an adult outside the family
- A reasonably safe, stable environment
Family
- Strong and affectionate relationships with both parents
- Strong and affectionate relationships with family members
- Strong and affectionate relationships with other significant adults
- Recognition and praise
- Parental interest
- Involvement in education
- Stability and security in family life
- Parental supervision
- Child’s attachment to parent
- Parent’s attachment to child
- Parent’s involvement in child’s activities
School
- Active involvement in school
- Access to high quality early education
- Commitment to school
- Attachment to teachers
- Aspirations to go to college
- Parent’s expectation for child to go to college
- Parent’s values about school
Peer Group and Individual
- Resilient temperament
- Autonomy
- Comprising a sense of identity
- Achievement
- Self-awareness
- Independence
- Self-Motivation
- Peers have conventional values
- Parent’s positive evaluation of peers
- Child’s self esteem
- Child is close to an adult outside the family
- Good impulse control
- Strong sense of self-worth
- Sense of personal control
Risk factors are characteristics (biological, psychological, family, community, and cultural) that precede and are associated with a higher likelihood of negative outcomes. Protective factors are characteristics associated with a lower likelihood of negative outcomes or that reduce a risk factor’s impact
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