The effectiveness of a shor-term prevention program to increase drug refusal behavior in elementary school children was assessed. Fifty-seven third grade children were randomly assigned to one of three groups: rehearsal-plus, traditional, and control. Children in the rehearsal-plus group were taught drug knowledge, assertiveness skills, decision making skills, and specific drug refusal techniques in the context of a skills-based strategy. This procedure included behavioral training and elaborative rehearsal. The traditional group targeted the same components, drug knowledge, assertiveness skills, decision making skills, and drug refusal skills, and employed a general educational-based approach to enhance children's functioning. Training occurred in three socially validated situations corresponding to settings where children are likely to be offered drugs. Assessment was carried out at pre- and post-test phases. It was hypothesized that children in the rehearsal-plus group would outperform those in the traditional and control groups on targeted responses. The results suggest that the rehearsal-plus procedure was most effective in enhancing desired behavior. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/44140 |
| Date | 04 August 2009 |
| Creators | Corbin, Saladin K. T. |
| Contributors | Psychology, Jones, Russell T., Ollendick, Thomas H., Redican, Kerry J. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | vii, 81 leaves, BTD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 25275972, LD5655.V855_1991.C673.pdf |
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