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How can schools help to reduce the harm associated with teenage substance use? Development of a theoretically-driven whole-school approach
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Markham, Wolfgang A., Bonell, Chris , Fletcher, Adam and Aveyard, Paul (2017) How can schools help to reduce the harm associated with teenage substance use? Development of a theoretically-driven whole-school approach. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 17 (1). pp. 1-11. doi:10.1108/DAT-11-2016-0028 ISSN 1745-9265.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/DAT-11-2016-0028
Abstract
Purpose
Substance use prevalence varies considerably between schools, but to date, whole school approaches for reducing substance use have only been moderately effective. The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel multifaceted whole-school approach to reduce substance use primarily among teenagers aged 11-14 years.
Design/methodology/approach
The outlined approach is premised on the proposal that schools can reduce the harms associated with substance use by promoting school connectedness and improving the school-related experiences of weakly connected and disconnected students. The aim of this approach is to develop students’ autonomy so that they may act in their real and long-term interests. This may be attained by promoting the realisation of essential human capacities for: practical reasoning – through valued opportunities for cognitive development and affiliation – through valued opportunities for affective development that advance students sense of acceptance within school. Schools may achieve this, it is proposed, by providing outlined forms of appropriate formal support and formal control that are augmented by particular features of school organisation, curriculum and pedagogic practice, which are also described.
Findings
A theoretically driven understanding of a whole school approach for reducing teenage substance use is outlined.
Originality/value
The outlined approach may usefully inform the development of future whole school interventions aiming to reduce problematic substance use among school students. Additional potential benefits include more successful student life trajectories.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Statistics and Epidemiology Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Drug abuse -- Prevention, School children -- Health and hygiene, High schools | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Drugs and Alcohol Today | ||||||
| Publisher: | Emerald Publishing Limited | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1745-9265 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 6 March 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 17 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-11 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1108/DAT-11-2016-0028 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 November 2016 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 June 2017 | ||||||
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