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

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About the Course

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.

This course is based on the reading online article, A Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model for Preventing High Risk Substance Use Across the Lifespan created by Rita E. Dykstra et al in 2023.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Edition Jun 2023

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Rita E. Dykstra
Rita E. Dykstra is an employee at the Prevention Research Institute™ (PRI), a private nonprofit organization that develops and sells preventive substance misuse interventions, including the Prime For Life® program described in the article. She is actively involved in research and program development related to preventing high-risk substance use across the lifespan​.
Blair Beadnell
Blair Beadnell is a board member and contributor at the Prevention Research Institute. She has also been involved in various studies focused on motivational interventions for alcohol and drug use, including those targeting impaired driving recidivism and other substance misuse contexts. Blair has published multiple works related to substance use prevention and intervention

Course Creator

L.A. Rankin

L.A. Rankin is a social worker with experience in many different settings with a variety of clients. She has worked with dementia and Alzheimers patients, dual diagnosis MH/MR, in a battered women’s shelter, and a rape crisis center. She also has 11 years of experience as a child protective social worker, where she earned certificates in domestic abuse/family violence and substance abuse.

Target Audience

Prevention professionals at all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Discuss the under looked age groups as they pertain to substance use prevention.
  2. 2 Identify the six principles of the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model.
  3. 3 Describe age-appropriate prevention models.

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The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Material Authors

Any relevant financial disclosures for course material authors can be found in the article.

Course Creator

L.A. Rankin – There are no relevant disclosures.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Course Details

1 CE Hour
Reading Online
Course 103581

Availability

This course is available until Oct 22nd, 2034.

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