PSYC 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Motivational Interviewing, Opioid Epidemic, Colab
6 Apr 2018
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Future priorities: testing the effectiveness of behaviour change interventions. A number of other future challenges in health psychology research and application. Important for future research to develop prevention programs that pick adolescent up where they are- this has been done a long time and program here at the slide is an example in the us been around since 1983. History of this program you can write a dissertation how things have changed in society and research you would laugh at what they did in 1983. How it has become more sophisticated and with methods that appeal to them and don"t make them resentful. Recent programs try to inoculate adolescents towards picking up those risk behaviours. A lot of it has been successful because smoking rates have been dramatically decreasing. A lot of things going on so one has to stay vigilant to prevent bad habits from happening and decreasing adolescents who put themselves at risk.
