A Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model for Preventing High-Risk Substance Use Across the Lifespan

Course overview

This course examines a model that works across the lifespan for preventing high-risk substance use, the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model. It includes: The Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model as an Exemplar of Lifespan Prevention, the six principles of the LRRM, the LRRM's five conditions, Visual Depiction of the LRRM and Corresponding Principles, LRRM Characteristics Making It Applicable Across the Lifespan, Describing Problem Development and Avenues for Change, Addressing Risk Factors That Do and Do Not Change, Using Behavioral Guidelines for Reducing High-Risk Use, Having Utility in Different Types of Prevention Programs, Prime For Life (PFL) as an Example of Intervention Utilizing the LRRM, and Outcomes for This LRRM-Based Program.