Prevention of Drug Abuse in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Int J Ment Health Addiction

et al. 2018

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This study evaluated an expressive arts intervention program (BColorful Life^) for adolescents with addicted parents and parents with addiction in Hong Kong. Different evaluation strategies were employed. Objective outcome evaluation adopting a one group pretest-posttest design showed positive changes in adolescents' (N = 43) beliefs about addiction. Both adolescents' and parents' (N = 21) psychosocial competencies were enhanced postintervention. Subjective outcome evaluation from both adolescent (N = 47) and parent (N = 22) groups showed positive perceptions of the program content, implementers, and achievement of program objectives. Findings provided preliminary evidence to support and yielded practical implications for the adoption of the multi-addiction syndrome model, positive youth development, and expressive arts approaches in the development of interventions for high-risk adolescents and addictive parents.Keywords Multi-addiction prevention . Expressive arts . Intervention . Addicted parents . AdolescentsIn the new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edition (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association 2013), a revised category BSubstance-Related and Addictive Disorders^was proposed. This new category combines two general types of addiction disorders, i.e., substance-related addiction (e.g., drug and alcohol) and behavioral Int

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confidence: 92%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of “Colorful Life”: A Multi-Addiction Expressive Arts Intervention Program for Adolescents of Addicted Parents and Parents with Addiction

Leung

Int J Ment Health Addiction

et al. 2018

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“…In his recent publication on how the Project P.A.T.H.S. can help adolescents stay away from drugs, Shek 36 remarked that several lessons could be learned from the implementation of the tier 1 program. First, it is important to understand the political context in program development and implementation.…”

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The Project P.A.T.H.S. in Hong Kong: Work Done and Lessons Learned in a Decade

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

2016

The Project Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs is a positive youth development program initiated and financially supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Since 2005, the project has gone through several phases, including the initial phase (2005-2012), school-based extension phase (2009-2016), and community-based extension phase (2013-2017). In the initial phase, with the involvement of academics from 5 universities in Hong Kong, the research team developed youth enhancement programs for junior secondary school students (20 hours per grade), trained the program implementers (20 hours per grade), assisted in the implementation in more than 250 schools, and evaluated the program using multiple evaluation strategies, including a 5-year longitudinal experimental study. In the school-based extension phase, the project was implemented for another cycle (2009-2010 and 2011-2012 school years) and a 6-year longitudinal study was conducted to understand the psychosocial development of Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. In the community-based extension phase, the programs were administered by social workers in the community settings. Generally speaking, different evaluation findings showed that the programs in Project Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs promoted positive development and reduced risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. Positive youth development attributes and family functioning also have positive contributions to adolescent developmental outcomes over time.

“…Among these substances, heroin was one of the traditional "narcotics analgesics" used in Hong Kong while others such as cannabis, ketamine, and ecstasy have been increasingly used as "psychotropic substances" since the late 1990s in Hong Kong (Cheung and Cheung 2018). Of note, ketamine has been the most popular substance used in Hong Kong since the 2000s and some substances (e.g., cough medicine and thinner as a type of organic solvent) have been uniquely used by young people in Hong Kong (Cheung and Cheung 2018;Shek 2017). Frequency analyses of using each substance at each wave showed that both boys and girls reported very low frequency of using "ecstasy" or "heroin" (i.e., 0-2 students among the female or male samples had ever taken these two kinds of substances in the past one year).…”

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confidence: 99%

Influence of Family Factors on Substance Use in Early Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study in Hong Kong

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Zhu

Dou

et al. 2019

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The present study examined the concurrent and longitudinal influences of paternal and maternal factors on the levels of and changes in substance use among early adolescents. Based on three waves of data collected from 2,669 junior high school Chinese students in Hong Kong, we found that fathers' and mothers' behavioral control and the quality of parent-adolescent relationship were negative predictors of the initial levels of substance use. Higher levels of maternal behavioral control and quality of mother-adolescent relationship predicted a slower rate of increase in adolescent substance use. Parental psychological control was not a significant predictor of the growth rate of adolescent substance use. While fathers' behavioral control and mother-adolescent relationship were stable concurrent predictors, the mother-adolescent relationship was a robust longitudinal predictor of adolescent substance use. The findings underline the critical roles of parents in influencing adolescent substance use. ARTICLE HISTORY