Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug Abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Community-based Prevention Specialist
Author: Community-based Prevention Specialist: Participant manual
Author: Community-based Prevention Specialist
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Community Readiness for Drug Abuse Prevention
Author: Karol L. KumpferPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788173839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Introduces the concept of community readiness for substance abuse prevention programming. Defines community readiness, provides a rationale for assessing a community's readiness prior to the planning or implementation of prevention activities, identifies seven factors for assessing community readiness, and offers strategies for increasing readiness factors found to be deficient. Case study. Intended for use with the handbook "Drug Abuse Prevention: What Works" and "Drug Abuse Prevention and Community Readiness: Training Facilitator's Manual."
Community Readiness for Drug Abuse Prevention
Author: The Criminal and Juvenile Justice Partnership Act of 1987
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Community-based Rehabilitation
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN: 9789241548052
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.
Trainer Catalog of Alcohol and Drug Training Materials from the National Center for Alcohol Education and the National Drug Abuse Center
Author: National Center for Alcohol EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Community-Based Participatory Health Research, Second Edition
Author: Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPHPublisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826193978
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
ìCommunity-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has become the preferred model for conducting research in communities. Most scientists who conduct such research now recognize that working in partnership with the community is preferable, and more ethical, than conducting research on a communityÖ. As Surgeon General of the United States, I direct a number of programs aimed at encouraging Americans to avoid tobacco, engage in physical activity, consume more nutritious diets, and protect their health in other ways. We need more effective methods to persuade, motivate, and enable individuals and communities to adopt these healthier lifestyles, and it is through CBPR that we will be able to discover these methods.î From the Foreword by Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, U.S. Surgeon General ìThe editors of this book bring together in one place both a description of epidemiological methods and a discussion of community-level issues. It is a volume that will prove useful to those who wish to conduct contemporary community-based research.î ñ Praise for the First Edition from the Foreword David Satcher, Former Surgeon General of the United States This second edition of a highly regarded textbook on the foundations of and strategies for achieving fertile community-based health care research has been completely revised and updated. It now includes new chapters on translating research into practice, evaluating research, and applying community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles to service, education, and evaluation. The book also updates a crucial chapter on the voices of community stakeholders and an important study of the ethical issues surrounding the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by renowned professors of community-based research, the text is distinguished by its how-to approach and focus on practical research methods. The text discusses the unique challenges of conducting CBPR and addresses ways to build and sustain community partnerships. It explores ethical issues regarding health care research, includes input from community stakeholders, and describes national and international support for CBPR. Research methods covered include qualitative studies, surveys, and intervention trials. Applications of CBPR illustrate how to translate research into practice and community-based participatory approaches to service, education, and evaluation. The second edition includes new chapters on: Building and sustaining researcher/community partnerships National and international investments in and support for CBPR Surveys and methods for conducting CBPR Translating research into practice Community-based participatory approaches to service, education, and evaluation
Drug Abuse Prevention for the General Population
Author: Severin L. SorensenPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788176730
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Provides practitioners with the info. to prepare their communities for prevention programming and to select and implement drug abuse prevention strategies that effectively address the needs of their local communities. The audience includes prevention program administrators, prevention specialists, community volunteers and activists, parents, teachers, counselors, and others who have an interest in drug abuse and its prevention. Contents: intro. to universal prevention; intro. to project STAR (a communitywide universal prevention program); key elements of project STAR; project STAR training require.; and implementation of project STAR.
