COMM 3313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Drug Resistance, Health Promotion
6 Nov 2016
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Analysis of narratives: surprising consistency in the resistance strategy stories of adolescents, obtained information not only about adolescents" experiences with substances, but also about the specific ways in which they constructed and interpreted those experiences. Teen video development: assist youth in creating more intentional practice and move beyond problematic identity stories to preferred ways of being as agentic and competent communicators. Curriculum: drug prevention curriculum, narrative intervention, 7th graders, 45 countries, reaches more than 2 million adolescents a year. Youth involvement with narratives: developing prevention messages. Knowledge, behavioral models, engagement: is in itself a prevention strategy. Developing the narrative intervention: step 1: collecting and analyzing youth narratives about drug use, offers, refusals, etc, discovery of drug resistance strategies across narratives. Leave: step 2: translate narrative research into health promotion messages. First-person testimonies non-fictional characters: step 3: weaving narrative messages into the keepin" it real curriculum: Classroom-based discussions: facilitate youth"s telling their own personally and locally based stories.
