Development of Alcohol Problems: Exploring the Biopsychosocial Matrix of Risk

摘要

The monograph is intended to provide a stimulus for cross-discipline inquiry intothe etiology and prevention of alcohol-related problems in youth, this volume integrates current knowledge about the development of risk for alcohol problems among this population. Summarizes major findings and research techniques from a variety of research fields, including basic methodological approaches to study genetic contributions to risk for alcohol dependence; physiological mechanisms that underlie alcoholism vulnerability; individual risk factors; family and peer effects on adolescent alcohol abuse; sociodemographic, environmental, and cultural influences on youth drinking behavior; impact of legal and social sanctions that formally control access to alcohol; and various models and methods to study adolescent alcohol use.