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Mogro-Wilson, Cristina; Letendre, Joan; Toi, Hiroki; Bryan, Janelle – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of mutual aid groups for high school students. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was applied to 242 adolescents, where every other adolescent was assigned to the intervention or the control condition. The study evaluated the influence of implementing mutual aid groups in decreasing perceived risk…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Substance Abuse, High School Students, Quasiexperimental Design
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Dielman, T. E. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1994
Reviews school-based approaches to prevention of adolescent alcohol use and abuse undertaken in the 1950s through the 1970s and discusses problems associated with such studies, remedies to these problems, and current school-based approaches. Also discusses the Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study, a longitudinal intervention undertaken in the 1980s to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking