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Strategies for Managing Alcohol Intake and Refusing Offers of Alcoholic Drinks

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A growing body of empirical work concerns how people manage alcohol intake, and what they do to refuse offers of alcoholic drinks. In this chapter we first consider psychological components linked to managing alcohol intake and to refusing alcoholic drinks. Work on how to enhance adherence to guidelines designed to promote low-risk drinking is examined. We then explore measures used to gauge skills involved in managing alcohol intake and review the intervention studies designed to enhance drink refusal skills. The contributions of qualitative research concerning strategies for managing alcohol intake are then considered. We conclude the chapter by presenting a Health Action Process Approach to managing alcohol intake and consider the advantages of utilising a cyclical, stage-based approach to this topic area.

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    Dominic Conroy

  2. Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Richard Cooke

  2. Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research, Liverpool, UK

    Richard Cooke

  3. School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK

    Dominic Conroy

  4. Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Emma Louise Davies

  5. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA

    Martin S. Hagger

  6. Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

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  7. Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK

    Richard O. de Visser

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Conroy, D., de Visser, R.O. (2021). Strategies for Managing Alcohol Intake and Refusing Offers of Alcoholic Drinks. In: Cooke, R., Conroy, D., Davies, E.L., Hagger, M.S., de Visser, R.O. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Psychological Perspectives on Alcohol Consumption. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66941-6_14

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