Morris E. Chafetz, Howard T. Blane

Youth, Alcohol, and Social Policy

Ed. by Howard T. Blane and Morris E. Chafetz

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anxiety about "alcohol and youth" has been excited by shocking events and reports. Events are exemplified by multiple deaths of adolescents in automobile crashes after drinking parties. Reports are exemplified by the conclusion, from a national survey, that more than one fourth of youngsters aged 13 to 18 are already problem drinkers. Response provoked by these events and reports has taken the form of proposed or enacted legislation in several states to raise the so-called legal drinking age from 18 to 19, or 20, or 21. The confusion around the alcohol-and-youth problem is manifest in the fact that no one can be sure that raising the legal drinking age will make any difference. The legislation may be tilting at windmills; and it is doubtful even that the windmills exist. (But the legislative windmills are whirling.) The confusion is clearly manifest in the fact that the legal drinking-age legislation does not deal with a drinking age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4684-8540-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9781468485400
• ISBN-10: 1468485407
• Artikelnr.: 37480693

Inhaltsangabe

I - Epidemiology of Drinking Practices among Adolescents and Young Adults.- 1 Middle-Aged Alcoholics and Young Drinkers.- 2 Patterns of Alcohol Consumption among the Young: High School, College, and General Population Studies.- 3 Alcohol Problems among Civilian Youth and Military Personnel.- II - Theoretical Models of Drinking among Adolescents and Young Adults.- 4 Developmental Aspects of Drinking through the Young Adult Years.- 5 Ecological Factors in Drinking.- 6 Sex Roles and Adolescent Drinking.- III - Public Policy Implications of Drinking Problems among Youth.- 7 Priorities in Minimizing Alcohol Problems among Young People.- 8 The Impact of Sociopolitical Systems on Teenage Alcohol Abuse.- 9 Toward National Policy for Health Education.- IV - Strategies for Reducing Drinking Problems among Youth.- 10 Strategies for Reducing Drinking Problems among Youth: College Programs.- 11 U.S. Military Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Rehabilitation Programs.- 12 Behavioral Strategies for Reducing Drinking among Young Adults.