Preventing substance abuse among American-Indian adolescents: A bicultural competence skills approach.

Schinke, Steven P.; Orlandi, Mario; Botvin, Gilbert J.; Gilchrist, Lewayne D.; Trimble, Joseph E.; Locklear, Von S.

doi:10.1037/0022-0167.35.1.87

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“…Caetano, Clark, andTam (1998) indicate that colonization has led to the loss of traditional cultural values and norms and has been identified as promoting drug use among American Indians. Regarding acculturation, LaFromboise and Rowe (1983) and Schinke et al (1988) suggested that minority youth may experience an increased amount of pressure in their attempt to fit within both their dominant and minority cultures, and substance use may serve as a coping response to this pressure. Mitchell (1996) stated that this examination entails an investigation of the power relations among different social actors and how they continue to create an atmosphere conducive to the propagation of the problem.…”

Section: American Indian Youth and Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Social contexts of drug offers among American Indian youth and their relationship to substance use: An exploratory study.

Kulis

Okamoto

Rayle

et al. 2006

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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In this exploratory study the authors examined the social contexts of American Indian youths' encounters with drug offers and their relationship to substance use. Using an inventory of drug use-related problem situations developed specifically for American Indian youth, questionnaires were completed by 71 American Indian youth at public middle schools in a Southwest metropolitan area. Regression analyses highlight the importance of situational and relational contexts in understanding substance use among the youth in this sample. Exposure to drug offers through parents, other adults, cousins, friends and other peers was associated with different types of substance use. Exposure through parents was particularly salient in predicting the drug use of female respondents. The study underscores the need for development of culturally grounded prevention programs in schools, reservations, and nonreservation communities. KeywordsAmerican Indians; youth; adolescence; substance use; drug offers In this study we examined the relationship between the social ecology and drug use behaviors of American Indian youth. Using a recently developed survey focused on the ecosystemic context of drug and alcohol use of American Indian youth, The Problem Situations Inventory for American Indian Youth (Okamoto, LeCroy, Dustman, HohmannMarriott, & Kulis, 2004), we analyzed salient environmental characteristics in relation to substance-using behaviors. The purpose of this process was to identify the characteristics of the environment that exerted the most influence in the substance-using behavior of American Indian youth. These findings have implications for the development of culturally grounded prevention programs in schools, reservations, and nonreservation communities. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptCultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 March 1. Jackson, and Hecht (2000), for example, found within a multiracial sample of youth that factors such as positive family relations, low parental permissiveness, and perceived neighborhood safety were related to lifetime use of fewer types of substances. The social context appears to have differential effects on drug use and drug resistance based on gender and ethnicity (Hecht, Trost, Bator, & MacKinnon, 2000;Moon, Hecht, Jackson, & Spellers, 1999;Moon et al., 2000). For example, Moon et al. (1999) found that Mexican American youth received more drug offers than African American and Caucasian youth, and that males were more at risk for offers and use at a younger age than females. Although in their research Hecht et al. emphasize that drug offers and use are situated within a social context and are mediated by gender and ethnicity, they did not elucidate the culturally specific factors that contribute to youth drug use. Further, their findings are limited to the drug use behaviors of youth from three specific cultural groups (Caucasians, African Americans, and Mexican Americans). In terms of future research directions, Hecht et al. (2000) state t...

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Section: American Indian Youth and Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Social contexts of drug offers among American Indian youth and their relationship to substance use: An exploratory study.

Kulis

Okamoto

Rayle

et al. 2006

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…Although treatment of substance abuse per se is outside the scope of this chapter, we review preventive interventions for substance abuse among American Indian youths because these interventions offer opportunities to look at important issues regarding mental health care for this understudied population. Schinke et al (1988) conducted a bicultural competence skills training intervention for the prevention of substance abuse. In this trial, 137 youths were randomly assigned by reservation site into prevention and control conditions after pretesting.…”

Section: American Indian Substance Abuse Prevention-mentioning

confidence: 99%

State of the Science on Psychosocial Interventions for Ethnic Minorities

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Bernal

Lau

et al. 2005

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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“…The percentage of high school and college graduates among Native Americans is lower than among the general population (55% vs. 66%, and 7% vs. 16%, respectively; Schinke et al, 1990). Native Americans have a rate of alcoholism six times greater than that of all other ethnic groups (Schinke et al, 1988).…”

Section: Native Americansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Panel V: Adaptive health behaviors among ethnic minorities.

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Race, ethnicity, and cultural attitudes and practices are among the variables that influence health behaviors, including adaptive health behaviors. The following discussions highlight the important role of social conditions in shaping health behaviors and the central role of family in promoting health across the Asian, Hispanic, Native American, and African American ethnic groups. Factors that may lead to health-damaging behaviors are also discussed. The need for additional research that identifies correlations among physiological, social, and behavioral factors and health behaviors, as well as underlying mechanisms, is called for. Keywordsaging; behavior; coping; ethnicity; health Although little is known about the adaptive health behaviors of minority groups, in this article, we nevertheless summarize what is currently known, using both empirical research and theoretical treatises. We address the adaptive health behaviors of four minority groups: Asian Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans. Although there are many similarities, each group presents unique issues related to the study of adaptive health behaviors.Adaptive health behaviors among Asian Americans are discussed with regard to the usefulness of race and ethnicity as variables in the study of behavior. We suggest that Asian cultural diversity needs to be understood by researchers before they can meaningfully engage in health research with this population. This is especially true because cultural expectations and norms shape the adaptive structures within a culture. We use the cultural characteristics of mainland China and their association with health behaviors as an example.The discussion on Native Americans emphasizes the influence of social conditions on their health behaviors. We also focus on the health habits and practices of young Native Americans and their potential effects on future health status. We suggest how to intervene in the lives of Native American adolescents to help alter their responses to health-changing conditions.

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Preventing substance abuse among American-Indian adolescents: A bicultural competence skills approach.

Cited by 138 publications

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Social contexts of drug offers among American Indian youth and their relationship to substance use: An exploratory study.

Social contexts of drug offers among American Indian youth and their relationship to substance use: An exploratory study.

State of the Science on Psychosocial Interventions for Ethnic Minorities

Panel V: Adaptive health behaviors among ethnic minorities.

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