{"id":2086,"date":"2009-07-17T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:38:30","slug":"types-of-indicated-prevention-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/types-of-indicated-prevention-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Indicated Prevention Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indicated prevention programs focus on the school, family, and community domains when targeting individuals at highest risk for drug abuse. Typically, these are stand-alone programs that are offered within community agencies or school settings. Researchers believe that regardless of the particular focus of the prevention approach used in reaching at-risk youth (school, family, or community), there are some basic requirements for developing effective indicated prevention programs. For example, Goplerud (1991) has suggested that prevention practitioners:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Design prevention activities that target the major risk factors of the individuals. Because each youth is different and has different risk factor vulnerabilities, no single prevention approach will be effective for all.<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Begin with the use of the prevention approach that will be the least intrusive but will be capable of ameliorating the problem.<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Establish consistent rules, responsibilities, policies, and practices for the prevention program.<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Work to develop trust and credibility for the prevention effort through positive actions.<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Assume that an individual\u2019s problem with alcohol and\/or drugs is not his or her only problem but merely a symptom of other stressors.<\/span><\/span>
\nBecause of an increasing dropout rate, schools are beginning to reach out to youth who are at risk in an effort to keep them in school and away from the kinds of problems associated with substance abuse. Therefore, school-based indicated prevention programs usually address several risk factors simultaneously, such as low self-esteem, academic failure, and depression. One such indicated prevention approach is the Student Assistance Program (SAP), similar to employee assistance programs, available in some schools. SAPs usually provide an assessment, crisis hotline, monitoring of a student\u2019s performance (e.g., tardiness, absences, grades, discipline problems, demerits, and suspensions), family contacts, support groups or group counseling, and referral to outside agencies, if needed.<\/span><\/span>
\nA number of useful research-based guidelines are available to help teachers and counselors increase protective factors among youth (Eggert et al. 1994a; Powell-Cope and Eggert 1994). These guidelines stress the importance of:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Helping youth develop an increased sense of responsibility for their own success;<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Helping youth identify their skills and talents;<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Motivating youth to dedicate their lives to helping society rather than feeling their only purpose in life is to be consumers;<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Providing youth with realistic appraisals and feedback;<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Stressing multicultural competence;<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Encouraging youth to value education and skills training;<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Increasing cooperative solutions to problems rather than competitive or aggressive solutions; and<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022\u00a0 Increasing a sense among youth of responsibility for others and caring for others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alan Markwood, Illinois Dept of Human Services, 1997.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indicated prevention programs focus on the school, family, and community domains when targeting individuals at highest risk for drug abuse. Typically, these are stand-alone programs that are offered within community agencies or school settings. Researchers believe that regardless of the particular focus of the prevention approach used in reaching at-risk youth (school, family, or community), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevention-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}