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Lisha, Nadra E.; Sun, Ping; Rohrbach, Louise A.; Spruijt-Metz, Donna; Unger, Jennifer B.; Sussman, Steve – Journal of Drug Education, 2012
The present study provides an implementation fidelity, process, and immediate outcomes evaluation of Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND), a drug prevention program targeting continuation high school youth (n = 1426) at risk for drug abuse. A total of 24 schools participated in three randomized conditions: TND Only, TND and motivational…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Prevention, Drug Abuse, Drug Use
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Galaif, Elisha R.; Sussman, Steve; Chou, Chih-Ping; Wills, Thomas A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2003
Examined structural relationships among risk and protective factors in a sample of 646 continuation (high risk) high school students. Findings show that depression is common among high risk adolescents, and it has numerous negative associated features and consequences. (SLD)
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Coping, High Risk Students, High School Students
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Galaif, Elisha R.; Chou, Chih-Ping; Sussman, Steve; Dent, Clyde W. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1998
The structural relations among depression, suicidal ideation, gateway substance abuse, and hard substance use were studied with continuation high school students considered at high risk for drug abuse. Significant differences among factor correlations for the various ethnic groups were found, and implications are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Continuation Students, Correlation, Depression (Psychology)
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Sussman, Steve; Stacy, Alan W. – Evaluation Review, 1994
The following methods of estimating school-level experimentation with drugs by adolescents at 20 California continuation high schools are compared: (1) self-reports; (2) prevalence estimates from students; (3) prevalence estimates from school staff; (4) naturalistic observation; and (5) refuse (garbage) analysis. Advantages of refuse analysis are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Continuation Students, Drinking, Estimation (Mathematics)