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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is designed to demonstrate ways of adapting ready-made curricula on drug abuse prevention. It suggests lessons that need to be part of any prevention education sequence and includes actural plans developed by schools and school systems.
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1995-11
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780788123719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresents current thinking about drug prevention education. Shows what to look for when adopting or adapting ready-made curricula. Suggests important lessons that ought to be part of any prevention-education sequence, including those developed by schools and school systems for their use. Concerned educators, parents and citizens can use this guide to select or design, and implement, curricula that are educationally sound.
Author: Ginger Katz
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Published: 2007-03-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780979300202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSunnys Story brings to light one of the most critical issues facing children, parents and educators today. Parents are challenged with discussing the dangers of alcohol and other drugs with their children. Having the courage to face hard issues is the first step in keeping children safe. Through the voice of the family dog, and in a tender and thoughtful way, Sunnys Story is an effective tool to approach this topic. This story opens a dialogue between parents and their children. It teaches parents about what children are exposed to everyday. Children will obtain a clear understanding of how their choices affect their life and the lives of those close to them.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993-07
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0788101633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0309046270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the nation's drug crisis has deepened, public and private agencies have invested huge sums of money in prevention efforts. Are the resulting programs effective? What do we need to know to make them more effective? This book provides a comprehensive overview on what we know about drug abuse prevention and its effectiveness, including: Results of a wide range of antidrug efforts. The role and effectiveness of mass media in preventing drug use. A profile of the drug problem, including a look at drug use by different population groups. A review of three major schools of prevention theory-risk factor reduction, developmental change, and social influence. An examination of promising prevention techniques from other areas of health and human services. This volume offers provocative findings on the connection between low self-esteem and drug use, the role of schools, the reality of changing drug use in the population, and more. Preventing Drug Abuse will be indispensable to anyone involved in the search for solutions, including policymakers, anti-drug program developers and administrators, and researchers.
Author: Dr. Richard W. Wilson
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2011-08-24
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0763771589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drug Abuse Prevention: A School and Community Partnership, Third Edition", takes an evidence-based approach to teach students the important concepts and skills needed to design effective drug prevention programs. Covering more than just the facts, this text provides a background of drug use and abuse and presents the principles and skills of prevention, with particular focus on adolescents and school settings. It reinforces the importance of schools forming community partnerships with key institutions and the application of policy tools to enhance the impact of education alone. -- From publisher's description.
Author: Zili Sloboda
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-08-06
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 0387354085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging handbook brings together experts in the sociology of drug abuse prevention. Providing a comprehensive overview of the accumulated knowledge on prevention theory, intervention design, and development and prevention research methodology, this work also promotes prevention science as an evolving field in the practice and policy of drug abuse prevention.
Author: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher: New York : United Nations
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789211481914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This publication does not offer a pre-packaged programme of education for drug abuse prevention that can be picked up and implemented. It is rather an attempt to provide a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy makers and school administrators can make decisions about school based drug prevention programmes in order to achieve greater success in education terms" -- p. 6.
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cynthia R. Knowles
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2001-06-18
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780761978053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book helps educators produce assessments of their schools' drug and violence prevention programs. It contains over 30 separate resources that can be adapted to specific evaluations (e.g., sample youth and adult participant feedback sheets, sample classroom observation sheets and teacher implementation logs, sample en-route participant feedback, sample teacher surveys of curriculum content, data summary logs, sample student risk surveys, and sample parent consent forms). There are also guidelines, glossaries, and advice on online funding. The 12 chapters are: (1) "Getting Started: Establishing Your Work Group"; (2) "Writing Goals and Objectives"; (3) "Program Review, Selection, and Implementation"; (4) "Creating Homegrown Programs: Elements of Effective Prevention"; (5)"Additional Data Collection: Preparing for Assessment of Program Effectiveness"; (6) "Self-Report Questionnaires and Focus Groups: Collecting Information From Students"; (7) "Cost and Time Effectiveness"; (8) "Experimental Design: The Basics"; (9) "Experimental Designs for Different Program Types"; (10) "Crunching Your Numbers and Organizing Your Data"; (11) "Public Presentation of Your Results"; and (12) "Troubleshooting Your Results." (Contains 29 references.) (SM)
