A WORKPLACE CD-ROM DRUG PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR PARENTS

青少年中的药物滥用仍然处于令人难以容忍的高水平。研究表明，父母可以通过温暖、权威的家庭管理对孩子产生强大的影响；强烈的执着；积极的父母榜样；以及不那么宽容的态度。证据令人信服地支持专门针对父母的预防计划。 工作场所是针对父母的未充分利用的资源。 尽管针对家长的预防计划已经存在，但很少考虑青少年的发展阶段，并且为父母提供利用交互式多媒体技术进行个人学习、行为建模和替代学习的机会的情况也更少。 最后，很少有计划可以在父母方便的时候为他们提供这些机会。该研究的目的是为职业父母开发和测试基于 CD-ROM/互联网的青少年药物滥用预防计划。 该计划将包括使用引人入胜的视频片段和感言。在第一阶段，制定了原型预防计划并进行了试点测试。结果表明该方法是可行且有前景的。在第二阶段，计划模块和部分将得到全面开发，并由 500 名 Charter Communications 员工组成的小组使用随机的前测后测设计进行现场测试。现场测试后，该计划将被修改并准备向行业推向市场。拟议的商业应用：父母可以对其孩子是否滥用药物产生强大的影响，但很少有针对父母的预防计划将行为建模和替代学习的机会与交互式多媒体计算机技术的独特教学能力结合起来。 为在职父母精心制定的基于计算机的预防计划应该对父母及其雇主具有相当大的吸引力。

Substance abuse among adolescents continues at intolerably high levels. Research indicates that parents can provide a powerful influence over their children through warm, authoritative family management; strong attachments; positive parental modeling; and less permissive attitudes. The evidence argues convincingly for prevention programs directed specifically at parents. The workplace is an underutilized resource for targeting parents. Although prevention programs for parents exist, very few consider the adolescent's stage of development, and fewer still provide parents with opportunities for individual learning, behavior modeling, and vicarious learning using interactive, multi-media technology. Finally, few programs exist that provide these opportunities for parents at their convenience. The objective of the research is to develop and test a CD-ROM/Intemet- based adolescent substance abuse prevention program for working parents. The program will include the use of engaging video vignettes and testimonials. In Phase I, a prototype prevention program was developed and pilot- tested. Results indicated that the approach is feasible and promising. In Phase II the program modules and sections will be fully developed and field tested with a group of 500 Charter Communications employees using a randomized pretest-posttest design. Following the field test, the program will be revised and prepared to market to industry. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Parents can have a powerful influence over whether their children engage in substance abuse, yet few prevention programs exist for parents that combine opportunities for behavioral modeling and vicarious learning with the unique teaching capacity of interactive multi-media computer technology. A carefully developed, computer-based prevention program for working parents should be of considerable appeal to parents and their employers.