EPSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Binge Drinking, Homicide, Suicidal Ideation
9 May 2020
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Often motivated by desire for excitement, not necessarily underlying unhappiness or psychopathology. The distinction between the two types is not absolute. For example, a delinquent adolescent might also be depressed. Americans aged 16 to 24 have highest rates of automobile accidents, injuries, and fatalities. Young drivers tend to take more risks than older drivers, with sometimes fatal consequences. Generally ineffective - crash involvement as high or higher for those who took driver education. Allows for a quicker pathway to licensure and potential risks of driving. 2. restricted license -driving curfews, no teenage passengers without adults present. Higher rates of substance use in whites and latinos. Peak use in emerging adulthood: due to propensity and opportunity, correlation with unstructured socializing. Recent declines in cigarette smoking, binge drinking, marijuana use, amphetamine use. Adolescent substance use became target of a great deal of political attention, public policy programs, and research in the 1980s and beyond .
