Topic Areas (Delinquency, Substance Abuse, and Health)
Community Interventions and Coalition Building
Prevention & Promotion
Pandora's Box (Random)
100
This level of the ecological model includes the individual.
What is the Microsystem
100
What is a Juvenile delinquent?
*Varies by state. In NC any offender 15 years of age or under.
100
What is citizen participation?
*Citizen involvement/engagement in community and civic organizations to accomplish commons goals.
100
This type of prevention prevents the actual occurrence of a specific illness, disease, or behavior
What is Primary?
100
What is Empowerment?
“…is a process by which people, organizations and communities gain mastery over issues of concern to them.”
200
Kurt Lewin created a mathematical formula to explain this concept: B=f(PxE)
What is person-environment fit?
200
What is risk assessment and why do we use it?
*Risk assessment is a survey tool used to determine criminogenic risk and risk for recidivating among youth and adult offenders.
200
What are some reasons people participate in community organizations, coalitions, etc. Name three (3) resaons.
*Internal Locus of Control – Especially those with a sense of personal power and a belief in the injustices of society
*A sense of community
*A perceived need for change and for coming together as a community
*A feeling of the presence of enabling conditions
or conditions that enhance the ability to create
change (e.g. neighborliness)
*Appropriate skills (e.g. leadership skills)
200
This type of prevention focuses on recovery or rehabilitation after disease is active
What is Tertiary?
200
_________ is the generalizability of the findings to everyday events and/or the larger population.
What is External Validity.
300
_________ is collaborative research between professionals and disadvantaged community members towards the goals of knowledge creation and social change. Community members are active participants in research.
What is Participatory Action Research?
300
Name three strategies Biglan et. al. used in their youth tobacco prevention program.
*Mobilization of community support for not selling
*Merchant education
*Change consequences for clerks selling/not selling tobacco
*Publicity about clerks refusals to sell
*Feedback to store owners/managers about youth tobacco sell
300
Describe the CureViolence program. How did the creator view violence?
*Program aimed at reducing youth/gang violence in the inner city
*Heavy emphasis on community member engagement and citizen participation.
*Violence as a disease.
300
______ and _____ are two challenges to implementing prevention programs
*Absence of problems
*Can’t control other factors
*Third variable problem
*Devalued-> difficult to fund
*Often measure related constructs (ie risks)
300
What are three (3) key assumptions and concerns of the empowerment theory?
*Empowerment is a multilevel construct
*Interconnectedness of ecological levels
*What happens in one level radiates to other levels.
*Historical and cultural context matters
*Longitudinal research/study of individuals, organizations, and policies are important
*Participants are collaborators
*Empowerment ideologies may improve the resource acquisition and development of organizations
400
_____,______, ______, _____, and _____ are the five systems in the ecological model
Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem, and Chronosystem.
400
Name three treatments for alcohol and substance abuse
*Alcoholics Anonymous – 12 Step Program
*Medication
*Therapeutic community programs
*Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
*Relapse Prevention
*Harm reduction
400
Name and briefly describe two (2) community intervention strategies.
*Networking
*Consultation
*Public Policy
*Education and Information Distribution
400
What are two ways promotion is different from prevention?
*Goes beyond prevention of problems
*Enhancement of strengths
*Characterizes people in terms of capacity to survive and thrive
*Attempts to reframe prevention
400
Briefly describe the childhood obesity prevention program by Schwartz et al (2006)
*six schools(3 treatment, 3 control)
*Fewer non-nutritious snacks in school
*Students increased water intake, low sugar juice, fewer high calorie options
*Effective for intervention schools
500
_____,______, ______, and _____ are the four domains of sense of community
Describe why the juvenile justice system can be viewed as a prevention/intervention program.
*Identifies youth at-risk for involvement in the criminal justice system.
*Ideally, it prevent youth from becoming adult offenders
*Addresses criminogenic risk factors
*Provides treatment for youth offenders
500
Why is coalition building important? Discuss some key components of this process.
*Important to establish community partnerships and engage key stakeholders.
*What is the problems/challenge being addressed. *
*clear understanding of the context of the problem.
*Community intervention strategies (networking, education,etc.)
*Advisory boards
500
What are three of the five characteristics of good prevention programs identified by the Nation et al article?
What is the relationship between alcohol/substance abuse and Crime? Describe at least two(2) aspects of this problem.
*Legality (legal status)
*DUIs
*High rate of recidivism among adult offenders with alcohol and substance abuse disorders
*Failure of the criminal justice system to treat substance abuse disorders.