Title : Early prevention of substance abuse by adolescents
Abstract:
Adolescent and youth drug addiction is currently developing into a problem of national disaster both around the world and in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Drugs among young people spread like a chain reaction, while early drug addiction prevention programs, despite their wide representation, are not yet effective enough.
Our study examines the effectiveness of the comprehensive program we have developed for the early prevention of substance abuse by adolescents based on techniques of psychophysical self-regulation in combination with an informational and practical block of classes aimed at revealing the topics of deviant behavior and its causes at the theoretical and practical levels.
We have developed a step-by-step research program to identify the effectiveness of an early program of substance abuse by adolescents based on psychophysical self-regulation techniques. It is assumed that the study will reveal the effectiveness of the program in several of its components: behavioral, emotional-cognitive, cognitive, value-cognitive.
To diagnose the behavioral component of the effectiveness of the program of early prevention of adolescent abuse, the following methods were used: questionnaire "Style of self-regulation of behavior"(V.I. Morosanova), the projective technique of "Hand – Test" and the personal questionnaire of A.Bass-A. Darky; emotional-cognitive component: A.Bass-A. personality questionnaire. Darky; cognitive component: questionnaire to determine the attitude of adolescents to drugs («Accountability in Drug Education: A Model for Evaluation», eds. Abrams, L. A.; Garfield, E.F.); value-cognitive: methods of studying M. Rokich's value orientations.
Accordingly, the package of psycho diagnostic techniques developed by us allows to study the program of psycho prophylaxis of the use of surfactants by adolescents in a complex way: at the behavioral, cognitive, emotional and physical levels.
Prior to the program of early prevention of abuse of surfactants, initial diagnostics was carried out for the entire psycho diagnostic package of techniques, which allowed us to establish the absence of statistically significant differences between adolescents of the experimental and control groups in all selected comparison parameters at the behavioral, emotional-cognitive, cognitive, value-cognitive and physical levels.
After the completion of the formative stage, a psycho diagnostic study was conducted in the experimental and control groups using the same techniques. The purpose of the repeated study: to determine the level of the index of aggressive reactions of students after the work carried out.
In general, during the analysis and processing of the results of the formative experiment, it was found that before the start of the program of early prevention of the use of surfactants, the results of adolescents in the experimental and control groups for each of the diagnostic indicators of self-regulation, attitudes to drugs, value orientations, propensity for open aggressive behavior were statistically equivalent (statistically significant differences between them were not revealed). After conducting a comprehensive program of early prevention of abuse of surfactants, statistical analysis of the data revealed its greatest effectiveness in the behavioral and cognitive components of the program, the program showed less effectiveness in working on the cognitive-value component.
As a result of the conducted research, the effectiveness of the preventive program developed by us was revealed in several of its components: behavioral, emotional-cognitive, cognitive, value-cognitive. The results were subjected to statistical analysis, which showed its effectiveness at the statistical level.
Audience Take Away:
- Listeners will learn about the effectiveness of the prevention program developed by us in several of its components: behavioral, emotional-cognitive, cognitive, value-cognitive
- listeners will understand the essence of prevention in order to identify the degree of predisposition of a teenager, and then reduce the level of probability of introducing him to psychoactive substances
- According to the results of the study, listeners will learn how to talk about surfactants at a different logical level. Since working with beliefs implies: making changes in beliefs from a higher logical level is higher than the level of predisposition to addiction
- The listeners will be helped by a comprehensive program developed by us for the early prevention of substance abuse by adolescents based on psychophysical self-regulation techniques and use for their research, as well as to use this program in practice
- Other teachers will also be able to use the results of the study in teaching and in practice • Our study provides a practical solution to the problems of early prevention of substance abuse by adolescents
- Listeners will receive new information on the problems of substance abuse by adolescents • This study and the program developed by us have the following advantages
- Familiarization with the psychological causes and mechanisms of addiction formation • Formation of primary skills for analyzing information, including surfactants, obtained through the media, in order to develop psychological immunity to harmful social influences and to resist addiction
- Learning to manage your emotional state as a prevention of addictive behavior
- Formation of an understanding of the importance of a healthy lifestyle for the harmonious development of personality and its successful self-realization in society
- Development of legal awareness of adolescents through the transition from abstract knowledge of the law to understanding its specific application, providing information about the consequences of offenses on specific examples
- Training in the skills of psycho physiological self-regulation of peripheral temperature using «Equator» software.The program is implemented using functional biofeedback technology (BFT) based on the principle of biofeedback. The program is not intended for medical use
