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The Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking in an Acute Inpatient Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Population
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking among patients before and after discharge from an acute inpatient...
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The Effects on Facilitators of a Substance Abuse Education Program
This retrospective–anecdotal study was conducted to determine if involvement in a learner-centered continuing education program in substance abuse...
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Cultural Psychology from the Perspective of Activity Theory
Culture is a system of enduring behavioral and thinking patterns that are created, adopted, and promulgated by a number of individuals jointly. These...
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Community Coalition Building—Contemporary Practice and Research: Introduction
Over the last 20 years, coalition building has become a prominent intervention employed in communities across America. Coalitions provide community...
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Why Have We Been More Successful in Reducing Tobacco Use Than Violent Crime?
Tobacco control efforts have been associated with a significant reduction in the prevalence of tobacco use in the United States. Efforts to reduce...
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A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Coalitions
The highly complex practice of building successful community coalitions is explored. Key dimensions related to coalition success are identified and...
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Building Collaborative Capacity in Community Coalitions: A Review and Integrative Framework
This article presents the results of a qualitative analysis of 80 articles, chapters, and practitioners' guides focused on collaboration and...
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Environmental influences in natural resolution: bringing in context
Addiction perspectives on substance misuse focus on the allegedly irresistible appeal of alcohol or drugs among predisposed individuals, who...
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The Role of Parents and Peers in Early Adolescent Substance Use: An Examination of Mediating and Moderating Effects
We examined several models representing the relations among parenting practices, family structure, peer pressure, and drug use in a sample of 443...
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Measuring Deficits and Assets: How We Track Youth Development Now, and How We Should Track It
The United States is perhaps the most data-driven society on the planet. Virtually everything Americans think and do is affected by data in some way:...
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The Role of Families and Care Givers as Risk and Protective Factors in Preventing Youth Violence
This paper reviews research which discusses the risk and protective functions that families and other caregivers provide in influencing the...
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Dissemination of Innovation as Social Change
For community psychology, the phrase “dissemination of innovation” implies the use of new social programs or social policies. As such, it also...
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The Genetics of Smoking Initiation and Quantity Smoked in Dutch Adolescent and Young Adult Twins
Not much is known about the genetic and environmental determinants of various aspects of substance use in adolescents. This study examined whether...
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Prevention of Substance-Related Problems
This text has focused on the recognition and treatment of a range of substance-related difficulties. I have introduced the reader to a scheme for...
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Community Change, Community Stasis, and the Law
A useful starting point for consideration of law and community psychology is to pose a literary existential question: why should a handbook on...
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Community-Based Health Interventions
An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in early 1990 augured the current health care crisis when it concluded that a black man...
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Toward an Integration of Behaviorism and Community Psychology
The field of behavioral community psychology has emerged during the last 25 years as a subspecialty of community psychology and applied behavior...
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The Influence of Religion on Alcohol Use Initiation: Evidence for Genotype X Environment Interaction
We examined the possible role of religious upbringing as a mediator of the shared environmental influences and as a moderator of the genetic...
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Rehabilitation
There is no secret regarding the steps required to enter recovery for substance dependence.1 The process is similar to that encountered with any...
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Ensuring Quality in the Treatment of Chemical Dependency
The field of chemical dependency treatment has evolved rapidly over the past ten years as managed care principles have influenced the delivery of...