Reducing Underage Drinking

Reducing Underage Drinking

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2004-03-26

Total Pages: 761

ISBN-13: 0309089352

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Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.


Communicating about Alcohol and Other Drugs

Communicating about Alcohol and Other Drugs

Author: Elaine Bratic Arkin

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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Summarizes knowledge about the characteristics, knowledge, attitudes, and practices of certain audiences of children who are at a higher risk for drug and alcohol abuse. Also discusses channels, sources, materials and messages and offers ideas for reaching these groups. Chapters cover the general category of youth from high-risk environments, looking specifically at Black and Hispanic/Latino children, and influences on them such as parents and primary care physicians. Includes case studies, messages and materials review process, and intermediary organizations.


Communication Yearbook 36

Communication Yearbook 36

Author: Charles T. Salmon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 0415525489

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This volume offers state-of-the-art communication research, representing media, interpersonal, intercultural and other areas of communication. It is an important reference on current research for scholars and students in the social sciences.


Communicating with Our Families

Communicating with Our Families

Author: Maryl R. McGinley

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1666900621

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Communicating with Our Families: Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation examines how communication technologies are shaping childhood, parenthood, and families by exploring topics such as parental loneliness, family storytelling, family technology rules, mindful technology usage, multigenerational communication, and community. The scholars in this volume work from a human communication perspective and use various research modes of inquiry including quantitative, qualitative, and interpretive methods. Perhaps the most significant question implied by our contributors in this volume is whether the introduction of new communication technologies will fundamentally alter familial forms and if those new groupings that emerge will resemble what has been generally assumed for several millennia.


Youth Drinking Cultures in a Digital World

Youth Drinking Cultures in a Digital World

Author: Antonia Lyons

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1317338332

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Social media has helped boost the culture of intoxication, a central aspect of young people’s social lives in many Western countries. Initial research suggests that these technologies enable highly-nuanced, targeted marketing and innovations – creating new virtual spaces that alter the dynamics and consequences of drinking cultures in significant ways. Youth Drinking Cultures in a Digital World focuses on how pervasive social networking technologies contribute to drinking cultures. It brings together international contributions from leading researchers in this emerging field to explore how new technologies are reconfiguring the key themes, traditional interests, practices and concerns of alcohol-related research with young people. It is particularly concerned with three important areas, namely: identities, social relations and power alcohol marketing and commercialisation public health and regulating alcohol promotion. This innovative book includes original research and commentary and is a must-read for academics and researchers in the areas of public health, psychology, sociology, media studies, youth studies and alcohol studies.


The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication

Author: Anita L. Vangelisti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 1136946373

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With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, the Handbook serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones. The contents are comprised of chapters covering: theoretical and methodological issues influencing current conceptions of family; research and theory centering around the family life course communication occurring in a variety of family forms individual family members and their relationships dynamic communication processes taking place in families family communication embedded in social, cultural, and physical contexts. Key changes to the second edition include: updates throughout, providing a thorough and up-to-date overview of research and theory new topics reflecting the growth of the discipline, including chapters on "singles" as family members, emerging adults, and physiology and physical health. Highlighting the work of scholars across disciplines--communication, social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology, family studies, and others--this volume captures the breadth and depth of research on family communication and family relationships. The well-known contributors approach family interaction from a variety of theoretical perspectives and focus on topics ranging from the influence of structural characteristics on family relationships to the importance of specific communication processes.


Effective Communication and Engagement with Children and Young People, their Families and Carers

Effective Communication and Engagement with Children and Young People, their Families and Carers

Author: Ally Dunhill

Publisher: Learning Matters

Published: 2009-07-06

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0857253506

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This book focuses on providing information and guidance for professionals involved in the newly emerging multi-agency, interdisciplinary children′s workforce. It does so by helping them to understand the theory behind the issues relating to communication and engagement in multi-agency settings for children and families. The book is of use to both students and those already working in the sector who are undertaking professional development to enhance understanding and skills in the new children′s workforce environment.