Adolescent peer groups and drug abuse

Drug Abuse and the American Adolescent, 38

Self-derogation and peer approval of drug abuse amongst male secondary school students

. Substance use among teenagers appears to be more a function of peer approval and peer drug use. This study examined the relationship between adolescents’ self-derogation and their responses to Peers’ Approval of Drug Abuse (PADA) among male secondary school students. In this study, 3000 students 7 th to the 9 th grade secondary schools completed a sel...

Preventing Adolescent Drug Abuse: Intervention Strategies, 47

The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate the capability ofsocial skills training approaches for preventing adolescent sub-stance abuse and to suggest directions for future research in thisarea. Social skills and training are defined from the perspectiveof social learning theory. Training approaches are then reviewedfor their effect on drug use and drug use-related behavior...

Delinquency and the Structure of Adolescent Peer Groups.

Gangs and group-level processes were once central phenomena for criminological theory and research. By the mid-1970's, however, gang research was primarily displaced by studies of individual behavior using randomized self-report surveys, a shift that also removed groups from the theoretical foreground. In this project, we return to the group level to test competing theoretical claims about deli...

Adolescent Drug Abuse: Clinical Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions, 156