Childhood multiple risk factor exposure exceeds the adverse developmental impacts of
singular exposures. Multiple risk factor exposure may also explain why sociodemographic …

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents report disparate rates of substance use, and
often consume more cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy than their …

Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It" blames the victim"
for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students …

There is consensus that health promotion programs should be culturally sensitive (CS). Yet,
despite the ubiquitous nature of CS within public health research and practice, there has …

In both the academic and popular press, the related concepts of risk, protection, and
resilience have emerged as constructs for conceptualizing social and health problems. The …

The rationale for targeted and tailored substance use prevention programs derives from
essentially three observations: 1) differences in substance use prevalence rates across …

OBJECTIVE To extend the analysis of psychosocial risk factors for smoking presented in the
United States surgeon general's 1994 report on smoking and health, and to propose a …

This article advances our understanding of factors associated with patterns and
consequences of early alcohol involvement among Latino teens, with an emphasis on how …

We argue that the importance of self-esteem lies in what people believe they need to be or
do to have worth as a person. These contingencies of self-worth are both sources of …

Longitudinal research studies focused on alcohol use initiation in adolescence were
reviewed to determine which variables function as antecedent predictors or risk factors. Only …