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¶ … Prevention for Youth at Risk
Explain the process of finding your article and how you determined it was peer-reviewed
The process of finding relevant peer-reviewed articles concerning evidence-based approaches to prevention for youth at risk involved consulting reliable online academic databases, including the Walden Library, EBSCOHost and Questia. The search terms used for the article search to help narrow the focus of the study were as follows: "youth at risk" alternatively combined with "vulnerable populations," "intervention," "prevention," "juvenile delinquency," "adolescents," "substance abuse" and "sexual abuse" that were published within the last 5 years in the English language. The selected article was determined to be juried following the guidance provided by the Walden Library's "What is peer review" and selecting this criterion from the search options offered by the various academic databases that were consulted. The article that was selected by this systematic process is summarized below.
Summarize the article and its findings
Writing in the Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, Dilani M. Perera-Diltz and Justin C. Perry's article, "Screening for Adolescent Substance-Related Disorders Using the SASSI-A2: Implications for Nonreporting Youth" (2011) reports the results of their use of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory to identify youth who were at most risk of...
The key findings that emerged from this study were as follows:
1. Male adolescents had substantially higher levels of drug use; and,
2. Male adolescents had significantly lower levels of alcohol use compared to female adolescents (Perera-Diltz & Perry, 2011, p. 66).
Explain how this article expands your knowledge of an important issue related to your field of study
Substance abuse represents a serious health threat to young people, and while progress has been made in recent years, the problem remains especially salient for minorities and inner-city youths (Perera-Diltz & Perry, 2011). Although the problem has been the focus of numerous studies, identifying evidence-based interventions that have lasting effectiveness into adulthood has proven elusive (Peraera-Diltz & Perry, 2011). Given the seriousness of the problem and its demonstrated intractability to conventional interventions, identifying more efficacious strategies to help these young people overcome substance abusing behaviors represents a timely and valuable enterprise and discussed below.
Expand on your insights utilizing the Learning Resources
Based on the growing body of evidence concerning the adverse psychological and physical effects of chronic substance abuse, it has become increasingly important to identify the antecedents to these behaviors in young people's lives that can be changed…
References
Eassey, J. M. & Gibson, C. L. (2105, January 1). Using a group-based trajectory Approach to assess risk and protective factors of marijuana use. Journal of Drug Issues, 45(1), 4-7.
Perera-Diltz, D. M. & Perry, J. C. (2011, April). Screening for adolescent substance-related disorders using the SASSI-A2: Implications for nonreporting youth. Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 31(2), 66-71.
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