Affect Regulation and Prevention of Risky Behaviors

Bell, Carl C.; McBride, Dominica F.

doi:10.1001/jama.2010.1058

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“…To suggest that this period is one of no brakes or steering wheel (Bell & McBride, 2010) greatly oversimplifies this period of development. In a series of recent experiments in our laboratory (Somerville, Hare, & Casey, 2011) we measured self control using a variant of a go/nogo paradigm that contained social cues (e.g., positive, negative or neutral facial expressions).…”

Section: Self Control and The Teenage Brainmentioning

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“…This diminished ability is not observed in children and adults, who show equal difficulty regardless of emotional content of the nontarget. Thus, the description of teens as “all gasoline, no brakes, and no steering wheel” (Bell & McBride, 2010) more accurately reflects their behavior in heated situations rather than cool, less immediate and less emotional ones. In these cool situations, the teen is quite capable of acting rationally and making optimal decisions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Too often, in simplifying the findings for the media or policy makers, this work is reduced to adolescents having no self control and no prefrontal cortex, basically being “all gasoline, no brakes, and no steering wheel” (Bell & McBride, 2010). Such simple claims can have positive and negative consequences for the treatment of adolescents, justifying both diminished responsibility for criminal acts (see Scott and Bonnie in this issue) and limited ability to make life choices (e.g., terminate or continue a pregnancy).…”

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The Teenage Brain

Casey

Caudle

2013

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Adolescence refers to the transition from childhood to adulthood that begins with the onset of puberty and ends with successful independence from the parent. A paradox for human adolescence is why, during a time when the individual is probably faster, stronger, of higher reasoning capacity and more resistant to disease, there is such an increase in mortality relative to childhood. These untimely deaths are not due to disease, but rather to preventable forms of death (accidental fatalities, suicide and homicide) associated with adolescents putting themselves in harm’s way due, in part, to diminished self control – the ability to suppress inappropriate emotions, desires and actions. This paper highlights how self control varies as a function of age, context and the individual and delineates its neurobiological basis.

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Section: Self Control and The Teenage Brainmentioning

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“…The PATH program was adapted from an efficacious adolescent-only group based intervention developed for teens attending a therapeutic day school (Project BALANCE); the Project BALANCE curriculum focuses on teaching youth how to regulate their emotions in risky situations so that they can better negotiate sexual safety and reduce their HIV risk (Brown et al, 2013). Interventions centered on improving child and adolescent affect regulation have been successful in preventing mental health and behavioral problems (Bell & McBride, 2010). The PATH program focused on teaching young offenders affect management skills due to the high rates of psychiatric disorders and associated emotional and behavioral dysregulation documented among juvenile offenders (Teplin, Abram, McClelland, Dulcan, & Mericle, 2002; Tolou-Shams et al, 2014).…”

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Outcomes of a family-based HIV prevention intervention for substance using juvenile offenders

Tolou‐Shams

Dauria

Conrad

et al. 2017

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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Approximately 80% of all arrested youth are diverted from detention and supervised in the community through probation, specialty courts and other community-based diversion efforts. Justice-involved youth have greater psychiatric impairment, substance use and sexual risk behaviors than their non-justice-involved peers. Family-based interventions to address mental health, substance use and recidivism have been successful in improving these youth outcomes; but the lack of integration of HIV/STI prevention is notable given the co-occurrence of substance use, delinquency and sexual risk-taking behaviors among justice-involved youth. Moreover, emotion dysregulation may be an important and understudied underlying construct of these co-occurring risk behaviors for justice-involved youth. Study participants were 47 caregiver-youth dyads enrolled in a juvenile drug court program. As part of a pilot efficacy trial, dyads were randomized to a 5-session family-based integrated substance use and HIV/STI prevention intervention that relied on affect management strategies for risk reduction or an adolescent-only psychoeducation condition matched for time and attention. Data collected at baseline and 3 months post-intervention suggest that a family-based integrated affect management substance use and HIV prevention pilot intervention may lead to justice-involved youths’ enhanced motivation to change their marijuana use, decreased marijuana use and decreased risky sexual behavior over time. Future research is required to replicate these pilot trial findings and should also examine family-level mediators and moderators of treatment response, particularly with respect to HIV prevention efforts for these youth.

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“…using psychoactive substances, risky sexual behaviors), which may threaten a young person's life or health, or have ramifications for their future through the occurrence of an addiction, unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, violence, mental illness, etc. [7,8,9]. The analysis of the phenomenon of involvement in risky behaviors should take into account gender differences [10].…”

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Physical activity and sport as a protective factor against health- -threatening experiments with adulthood

Jochimek¹,

Krokosz²,

Lipowski³

2017

BJHPA

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Open Access License:This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. abstract BackgroundThe aim of this paper is to specify to what extent goal orientation in physical activity and sports constitutes a protective factor against involvement in risky behaviors. Material/MethodsThe research group consisted of 430 eighteen-year-old high school students (females n = 203; males n = 227; athletes n = 137; physically active n = 198; inactive group n = 95). Subjects were asked to complete a "pen-and-paper" task of filling-in the IPAO Lipowski & Zaleski (2015) and a questionnaire concerning involvement in risky behaviors. ResultsMale athletes high scores in persistence in action dimension were reflected by a lower likelihood of cigarette smoking and illicit drug use. The importance of heterogeneity of objectives turned out to be a buffering dimension protecting female athletes against alcohol drinking. ConclusionsPhysical activity and practicing competitive sports may constitute a protective factor, especially among young women. Further exploration of issues concerning adolescents' purposeful actions may enrich our knowledge about the prevention of risky behaviors.

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Affect Regulation and Prevention of Risky Behaviors

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The Teenage Brain

The Teenage Brain

Outcomes of a family-based HIV prevention intervention for substance using juvenile offenders

Physical activity and sport as a protective factor against health- -threatening experiments with adulthood

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