Exam 17: Preventing Substance Abuse

According to the classification of prevention programs by the Institute of Medicine, ________ are targeted at individuals who show signs of developing problems, such as a child who began smoking cigarettes at a young age or an adult arrested for a first offense of driving under the influence of alcohol.

According to the classification of prevention programs by the Institute of Medicine, ________ are designed for groups within the general population that are deemed to be at high risk-for example, students who are not doing well academically or the poorest neighborhoods in a community.

The educational program with Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is delivered by police officers, originally in fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms.

Briefly discuss the selective prevention program called the Strengthening Families program.

In the context of school-based drug-use prevention programs, which of the following statements is true of Project ALERT?

According to the classification of prevention programs by the Institute of Medicine, ________ are designed for delivery to an entire population-for example, all schoolchildren or an entire community.

In the context of affective education, ________ is defined as an approach that involves teaching students to recognize and express their own feelings and beliefs.