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Personality-Targeted Interventions for Substance Use and Misuse

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Conrod, Patricia J.·2016·Current Addiction Reports
DOI 10.1007/s40429-016-0127-6PMC PMC5110575
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Personality factors have been implicated in risk for substance use disorders through longitudinal and neurobiologic studies for over four decades. Only recently, however, have targeted interventions been developed to assist individuals with personality risk factors for substance use disorders manage their risk. This article reviews current practices in personality-targeted interventions and the eight randomised trials examining the efficacy of such approaches with respect to reducing and preventing substance use and misuse. RECENT FINDINGS: Results indicate a moderate mean effect size for personality-targeted approaches across several different substance use outcomes and intervention settings and formats. CONCLUSIONS: Personality-targeted interventions offer several advantages over traditional substance use interventions, particularly when attempting to prevent development of problems in high-risk individuals or when addressing concurrent mental health problems in brief interventions.

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  • Preventure is an example of a selective school-based preventive intervention designed for high-risk youth with personality traits associated with substance use and psychopathology: hopelessness, high anxiety, high impulsivity, and sensation seeking.

    “One example of a selective school- based preventive interven tion is Preventure 284 . This is designed for high- risk youth with personality traits that are associated with substance use and psy chopathology: hopelessness, high anxiety, high impulsivity, and sensation seeking.”

    From Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention (2023) · cites this paper as [284]

    The Preventure Programme section describes a selected intervention for high-risk youth targeting hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity and sensation seeking; the review also describes its delivery in secondary schools. The claim overgeneralizes their association with psychopathology: the same section says sensation seeking does not appear to be related to risk for other forms of non-addictive psychopathology. It also calls the target anxiety sensitivity, rather than high anxiety. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Preventure uses approaches based on CBT and motivational interviewing to teach young people personality-specific coping skills aimed to prevent substance use.

    “Preventure uses approaches based on CBT and motivational interviewing to teach young people personality- specific coping skills aimed to prevent substance use.”

    From Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention (2023) · cites this paper as [284]

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Conrod, P. J.
Affiliations
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (CA)
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Conrod, Patricia J.
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Conrod, Patricia J.
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Current Addiction Reports
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-11-04
Volume
3
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4
Pages
426-436
ISSN
2196-2952 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1007/s40429-016-0127-6
PMC
PMC5110575
OpenAlex
W2548957187
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Funders
King's College London
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Keywords
substance use disorders, substance misuse prevention, personality risk factors, high-risk individuals, brief intervention, intervention efficacy, randomised trials

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