Parenting and Teen Drug Use

Lawrence M. Scheier, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow and Project Director affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, Positive Psychology Center. He is also President of LARS Research Institute, Inc., a non-profit engaged in program development, evaluation, and behavioral science technology transfer. Dr. Scheier is a research developmental psychologist with training in quantitative methods, social cognitive theory, and program evaluation. William B. Hansen, Ph.D., is President and Director of Tanglewood Research, Inc. Dr. Hansen has been involved in drug prevention research for over 35 years, during which time he has worked on numerous innovations that include the development and refinement of elementary, middle school and high school intervention programs.

Foreword by Michael Windle ; Acknowledgments ; About the Editors ; Contributors ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Lawrence M. Scheier and William B. Hansen ; Chapter 2 Parental Influence on Adolescent Drug Use ; Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Hermine H. Maes, and Lawrence M. Scheier ; Chapter 3 Family-based Models of Drug Etiology ; Wendy Kliewer and Nikola Zaharakis ; Chapter 4 Parenting Styles and Adolescent Drug Use ; Lawrence M. Scheier and William B. Hansen ; Chapter 5 Adolescent Identity: Is This the Key to Unraveling Associations between Family Relationships and Problem Behaviors? ; Elisabetta Crocetti, Wim H. J. Meeus, Rachel A. Ritchie, Alan Meca, and Seth J. Schwartz ; Chapter 6 Parenting from the Social Domain Theory Perspective: This Time it's Personal ; Christopher Daddis and Judith G. Smetana ; Chapter 7 A Primer on Parent-Child Communication: Why Conversations Matter ; Steven M. Giles and Lawrence M. Scheier ; Chapter 8 Parental and Peer Support: An Analysis of Their Relations to Adolescent Substance Use ; Thomas A. Wills, Megan Carpenter, and Frederick X. Gibbons ; Chapter 9 Family-Based Prevention Programs ; Karol L. Kumpfer and William B. Hansen ; Chapter 10 Adolescent Drug Abuse Treatment: Family and Related Approaches ; Ken C. Winters, Andria Botzet, and Tamara Fahnhorst ; Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks: A Puzzle Has to Have Pieces ; Lawrence M. Scheier and William B. Hansen ; References ; Index