A new study from the University of Montreal has found that brief cognitive behavioral interventions targeting specific personality traits in young adolescents can significantly reduce their risk of developing substance use disorders by the time they graduate high school.
Researchers at the University of Montreal have found that brief cognitive behavioral interventions targeting specific personality traits in young adolescents can significantly reduce their risk of developing substance use disorders by the time they graduate high school. The study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, involved 3,800 students from 31 Canadian high schools and followed them for five years.
The interventions, delivered to 7th-grade students as part of the PreVenture program, focused on helping them understand and manage personality traits such as impulsivity, sensation seeking, hopelessness, and anxiety sensitivity. Students were taught cognitive and behavioral strategies to cope with these traits and channel them towards long-term goals. The study found that students who received the intervention had a reduced risk of developing substance use disorders compared to those who did not. Depending on the year of follow-up and how missing data was handled, the intervention was associated with a 23% to 80% reduction in the odds of developing a substance use disorder. Dr. Patricia Conrod, the study's lead author and Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction at the Université de Montréal, explained that while individual differences in personality are essential to a healthy society, when certain traits are mismanaged, young people may turn to substances to cope with stress. She emphasized that the two 90-minute workshops were sufficient to teach young people personality-focused coping strategies that protected them against substance use disorder in the long term. Dr. Conrod highlighted the importance of upstream prevention interventions in addressing the addiction crisis in North America. The PreVenture program is already implemented in several schools in five Canadian provinces and twelve U.S. states
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