Download or read book Alcohol Abuse and Sexual Behaviors Among Latino Adolescent Males written by Jonathan Macias and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine alcohol abuse and sexual behaviors among Latino adolescent males. The study utilized secondary data from the National Institute of Health, Youth Behavioral Risk Survey of 2007. Findings suggest that among Latino adolescent males there is a statistically significant relationship between alcohol abuse and risky sexual behaviors including onset of first sexual experience and condom use at the last sexual experience. In addition, results indicated that alcohol abuse and multiple sexual partners was approaching statistical significance. Implications of the study on social work practice, policy and future research are discussed in latter chapters.
Download or read book A Study of Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Hispanics written by Karla Artavia and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between sexual risk behaviors and factors such as gender, grade level, alcohol use, and HIV knowledge and testing among Hispanic high school students. A quantitative study in which secondary data were utilized from the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The information collected was obtained for youth in Grades 9-12 who identified themselves as Hispanic-Latino. The sample size was approximately 3,555 Hispanic adolescents. The findings revealed a gender difference in that males tended to engage in more sexual risk behaviors than females. Alcohol use was an indicator for increased sexual risk behaviors. HIV knowledge did not reduce sexual risk behaviors or promote an increase in HIV testing. The findings may help in developing programs to address sexual risk behaviors and to promote a reduction in those behaviors.
Download or read book Alcohol Use Abuse Among Latinos written by Melvin Delgado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services, you will learn how to design and improve services for Latinos with substance abuse problems by understanding that the cultures and personal backgrounds of your clients are crucial to the counseling process. This text will also show you how these service skills apply to the individual, family, or an entire community. Studies show that, according to patients, culturally sensitive and responsive practitioners are generally more credible, trusted, and effective. Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos takes into account several different aspects that will help you develop these traits and provide successful services for Latinos dealing with alcohol or other drug problems. You’ll gain valuable insight into: the five elements that are vital to a successful ATOD (Alcohol, tobacco and Other Drug) service--multiculturism, resilience/strengths, competence, community capacity development, and community participation--plus a detailed explanation of why they are needed step-by-step instructions for using three methods, supervision, inservice training, and consultation, as means of providing ongoing learning of cross-cultural competencies to practitioners why key factors such as economic background, gender, and sexual orientation need to be taken into consideration for ATOD services to be effective demographic patterns and case studies of Latino users and abusers of alcohol and other drugs that illustrate the growing number of Latinos in need of ATOD services why the practitioner needs to be aware of how family importance, values attached to cooperation versus competition, sociability, respect, and action-oriented problem-solving play a role in effective services for Latinos the need for practitioners to understand how ethnic identity, biculturality, Spanish language fluency, gender-specific role expectations, skin color, and overall sense of self can affect the success of services for Latino teenagers how excessive marketing of alcohol to Latino communities, lack of representation, and a lack of community involvement are key barriers to successful ATOD services for Latinos Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos also discusses Latino mens’and womens’individual needs concerning substance abuse. One of the topics addressed, the loss of self-esteem, has been found to be a contributing factor to alcohol use and abuse for Latinas. It offers ways you can promote self-esteem in your Latina clients by focusing on their cultural heritage and pride. In addition, this text takes a unique look Latina lesbians and how training through educational and agency internship programs can promote awareness to your clients’ special needs concerning substance abuse. Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos will help you provide all of your Latino clients with efficient and culture-friendly services for resisting or overcoming the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.
Download or read book Gender Differences in Sexual Behaviors of Latino Adolescents written by Kristen Skenfield Marchi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Latinos and Alcohol Use Abuse Revisited written by Melvin Delgado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-of-a-kind exploration of effective alcohol prevention and treatment for Latinos-now and for the future! By the year 2020, the Latino population in the United States will increase to 60 million, making up 18 percent of all residents. Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited: Advances and Challenges for Prevention and Treatment Programs brings into sharp focus how present and future demographic shifts in Latino population are being felt in alcohol programs across the United States. Case studies and in-depth research clearly illustrate the practical steps various culturally competent programs recommend to effectively deal with alcohol use, prevention, and treatment for Latinos. Alcohol abuse, though rampant in Latino populations, has not received the attention that other types of drug abuse has received, even though the death rates, health problems, and financial costs from alcohol are staggering. Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited presents respected authorities tackling the tough questions about demographics, culturally competent research, and effective prevention and treatment programs. The book provides an up-to-date socio-demographic foundation, then builds upon current research and information to present a clear picture of the needs of various Latino populations for alcohol abuse programs now and in the future. Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited discusses: the Latino demographic profile—an overview patterns of need and treatment among Mexican-origin adults in central California alcohol abuse among Dominican-Americans the onset of alcohol and other drug use among gang members incarcerated Latinas, alcohol, and other drug abuse rural Latino grandparents raising grandchildren of substance abusing parents alcohol use among Puerto Rican active injecting drug users alcohol and other drug abuse prevention for high-risk youth a case study of a Puerto Rican community in Massachusetts detailed recommendations for prevention and treatment Latinos and Alcohol Use/Abuse Revisited is a detailed examination of prevention and treatment programs for Latinos, invaluable for substance abuse professionals, social workers, practitioners, and professionals in charge of alcohol prevention and treatment programs.
Download or read book The Effects of Alcohol Use on Condom Use Among United States Adolescents written by Claire Elizabeth Dye and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Research to Intervention written by Merrill Singer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Health Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing Underage Drinking written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-03-26 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.
Download or read book Adolescent Latinas and Latinos Perceptions of Family Acculturation Sex focused Communication and Risky Sexual Behaviors written by Verenice D' Santiago and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual risk taking among Latino adolescents has been shown to vary across immigrant generations. While previous research has examined the relation among various factors, such as family-based, sex-focused communication and parent acculturation, that influence Latino youth sexual risk taking, a conceptual model had not yet been proposed. Additionally, the role of fathers in the development of sexual behavior has rarely been examined. This dissertation provides a theoretically-driven model that can help researchers conceptualize the development of sexual behavior among Latino youth.
Download or read book Health Services Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Issues in the Latino Community written by Marilyn Aguirre-Molina and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping in scope, Health Issues in the Latino Community identifies and offers an in-depth examination of the most critical health issues that affect Latino's health and health care within the United States. This resource offers a comprehensive approach that informs and promotes the advancement of the practice, program planning, research, and public policy to improve health care of all Latino citizens.
Download or read book Public Health Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brief Interventions for Adolescent Alcohol and Substance Abuse written by Peter M. Monti and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading experts, this book demonstrates the unique value of brief motivational interventions for addressing adolescent alcohol and other substance use in a range of clinical contexts. It presents cutting-edge knowledge on the etiology and developmental context of adolescent addictive behaviors and reviews exemplary treatment approaches. Effective strategies are described for intervening with diverse populations, such as college students, youth in the justice system and in foster care, those with co-occurring substance abuse and psychiatric problems, LGBT youth, and Latino and American Indian adolescents. This book replaces the editors' influential earlier work, Adolescents, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse, with an expanded focus on practical applications. Most of the chapters are completely new.
Download or read book Alcohol Use Among Latino Adolescents written by Guadalupe Alvarado Bacio and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the dissertation was to examine the immigrant paradox in relation to alcohol use patterns among Latino youth and test potential neurocognitive and contextual explanations. Specifically, the dissertation analyzed the differences in drinking initiation and alcohol use patterns between non-U.S.-born Latino adolescents and their U.S.-born Latino counterparts. The neurocognitive factors tested included dimensions of impulsivity (i.e. risky decision-making, response inhibition, and delayed discounting) and alcohol use outcome expectancies. The contextual factors examined were association with substance using peers, perceptions of peer norms, different aspects of parental monitoring, and dimensions of familismo. To this end, a study was designed and implemented at a local Los Angeles Unified School District high school during the 2012-2013 academic year. A total of 130 female and male adolescents between ages 14 and 17 who self-identified as Latino participated in the study. Participants completed a series of self-report measures and behavioral tasks that assessed sociodemographic characteristics, patterns of alcohol use, drinking outcome expectancies, risky decision making, response inhibition, delayed reward discounting, peer perceptions of use, association with substance-using peers, aspects of parental monitoring, and dimensions of familismo. Consistent with hypotheses, non-U.S.-born teens were more likely to have started to drink in adolescence, started to drink at a younger age, and were more likely to drink more recently than their non-U.S.-born counterparts. No differences were found in frequency of drinking episodes or number of drinks per drinking occasion. Mediation analyses indicated that perception of peer norms and more favorable evaluations of negative alcohol expectancies helped explain these differences. That is, U.S.-born Latino youth were more likely to believe that a higher proportion of their friends used substances than their non-U.S.-born counterparts and, in turn, reported worse alcohol use outcomes. Similarly, U.S.-born Latino teens evaluated the negative effects of alcohol to be more favorable than non-U.S.-born youth and were as a result more likely to endorse worse alcohol use outcomes. The multi-mediation analyses that simultaneously tested these two potential mediators in one model determined that both peer perception of use by friends and evaluation of negative expectancies were strong explanations of the immigrant paradox in drinking initiation patterns. Results identified that the immigrant paradox is prevalent in patterns of drinking initiation but not in severity of drinking once Latino teens begin using alcohol. Explanations for differences in drinking initiation suggested that both neurocognitive and contextual factors are relevant to understand the immigrant paradox. Both holding favorable valuations of negative alcohol use expectancy outcomes and perception of substance use by friends explained the immigrant paradox in drinking initiation patterns found in this study. Whereas differences in dimensions of impulsivity, association with substance using peers, and family context factors did not help explain the identified differences in drinking, these factors may play a role in influencing or modulating the severity of alcohol use once Latino teens start drinking. Nevertheless, valuations of negative alcohol use expectancy outcomes and perception of substance use by friends are two tractable factors that present opportunities for intervention geared at this underserved group.
