Mark is a health education specialist designing a drug prevention program for yo

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Mark is a health education specialist designing a drug prevention program for young adolescent males. He has been directed to develop the program based on the Social Cognitive Theory in order to teach them refusal skills for avoiding the use of drugs. He has asked you to assist him in this assignment. As part of Mark's assessment with these young men Mark conducted a focus group, asking them questions for discussion about drug use in their community. They talked about their friends, relatives, and neighbors who used drugs from early ages. Some of them though that they might eventually succumb to that same lifestyle, since everybody else does 1). As a health education/promotion professional, describe at least 2 concerns that you have for this group of young men. 2. Using the social cognitive theory, what would be four (4) factors or constructs that you would consider as you plan an intervention for this population? 3. Using the Social Cognitive Theory, design a draft of a health education/promotion program using a or all of the four (4) factors that you identified in item 2 above.

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1. Concerns with these young groups

A. Young groups are more prone to the drug habituation because of wrong people they meet and they live with them is a major factor for drug habits.

B. Second things is the at this age body hormonal condition is changes due to also they prone to drug habituation .

2. Following 4 factor will be considered

A. Education: education is most important in this case because if they know the adverse drug reaction , then there must be different scenario. We have to identify such groups and educate them the bad effects of drug habituation.

B. Motivation: the people who already patient of drug use, we have best treatment for them is motivation. We collect such people and motivate them to left them from this habit

C. Treatment: people who involved in daily use of drugs and not treated by motivation has to give antagonist treatment because we don't have any other option.

D. Adult education: Young group mind setup can be changed if you educate their parents. Because child's are more nearer to parents and if from starting their parents educate them then it is well and good.

3. Drugs habituation is a serious scenario in today's world. Young groups are more prone to this because of factor listed above.

Though there is a treatment for this but most useful things is the education. We educate this groups about the drug habits and their sad effects on health and family. We tell them how this habit may altered their day to day life and also harmful to their aim and ambition.

We also tell them by doing this you must face serious issue of health in future. We motivate them by making picture and video.

Here education of only young group is not sufficient we.must move to the other social group also, so that maximise population know about the bad habits of drugs.

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