Power Point Slides Alcohol - Meagher Lab
Power Point Slides Alcohol - Meagher Lab Power Point Slides Alcohol - Meagher Lab
Characteristics of Health-Compromising Behavior ! Many of these behaviors share a window of vulnerability in adolescence ! Drinking to excess ! Smoking ! Illicit drug use ! Unsafe sex ! Risk-taking behaviors ! Tanning ! Eating disorders
Characteristics of Health-Compromising Behavior ! Behaviors are tied to the peer culture ! Image of these behaviors as “cool” ! Insecure more vulnerable to peer pressure ! Behaviors, though dangerous, are pleasurable (+reinforcement) and often reduce anxiety (- reinforcement) ! Linked to major causes of death ! Behaviors develop gradually rather than being acquired “all at once” ! Substance abuse of all kinds are predicted by some of the same factors ! Interventions need to be matched to stage of vulnerability
- Page 1: Health-Compromising Behaviors chara
- Page 5 and 6: What Is Substance Dependence? ! Phy
- Page 7 and 8: Addiction Theories (a) The opponent
- Page 9 and 10: Opponent Process Theory
- Page 11 and 12: B-process grows in strength with re
- Page 13 and 14: Koob’ Model (2004) Animal studies
- Page 15 and 16: Figure 3 Comparison of the critical
- Page 17 and 18: Alcoholism and Problem Drinking: Sc
- Page 19 and 20: DSM-IV Definitions ! ALCOHOL ABUSE:
- Page 21 and 22: EPIDEMIOLOGY ! Stats: ! 1 out of 10
- Page 23 and 24: High School Alcohol Use 80% of 12th
- Page 25 and 26: Prevalence of alcohol use and depen
- Page 27 and 28: Epidemiology ! Personality factors
- Page 29 and 30: Physiological Aspects of Alcohol Co
- Page 31 and 32: How alcohol affects the brain
- Page 33 and 34: J-Shaped Curves J-shaped associatio
- Page 35 and 36: Alcohol and all cause mortality The
- Page 37 and 38: Alcohol:Incidence of Diabetes II Al
- Page 39 and 40: Alcoholism and Problem Drinking: Is
- Page 41 and 42: Heavy Drinking and Health ! Alcohol
- Page 43 and 44: Women More Vulnerable? Women are mo
- Page 45 and 46: Alcoholism and Problem Drinking: Or
- Page 47 and 48: Gene Environment Interactions ! Ear
- Page 49 and 50: Prevention of Alcohol Abuse ! Legal
- Page 51 and 52: Alcoholism and Problem Drinking: Dr
Characteristics of<br />
Health-Compromising Behavior<br />
! Behaviors are tied to the peer culture<br />
! Image of these behaviors as “cool”<br />
! Insecure more vulnerable to peer pressure<br />
! Behaviors, though dangerous, are pleasurable<br />
(+reinforcement) and often reduce anxiety (-<br />
reinforcement)<br />
! Linked to major causes of death<br />
! Behaviors develop gradually rather than being<br />
acquired “all at once”<br />
! Substance abuse of all kinds are predicted by some<br />
of the same factors<br />
! Interventions need to be matched to stage of<br />
vulnerability