Prevention Program for Grades 9-12 (GIF version)


Grades

Influences on AODA Conceptualization

Effects of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse

Rules About Alcohol and Other Drugs

Keeping Safe From Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse

9-12

A. What current economic, cultural, and social factors promote alcohol and

other drug abuse?
B. To what extent have tobacco, alcohol, and other

drugs permeated my culture and community?
C. How has this permeation of

tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs influenced the way I demonstrate that I am

becoming more adult?
D. What concept of adulthood are others

demonstrating for me?
E. What concept of adulthood am I demonstrating

for others?
F. How does my use or nonuse of alcohol and other drugs

enhance or detract from my sense of self-worth, sexuality, and gender

identity?
G. How do my family's and friends' views and practices

regarding alcohol and other drugs affect my behavior?
H. What stages has

my thinking gone through since kindergarten regarding alcohol and other drugs?

A. How do parents' choices regarding alcohol and other drugs affect their

children?
B. How does a person's alcohol and other drug use affect

others? Misuse? Abuse? Nonuse?
C. How does alcohol and other drug

nonuse, use, misuse, and abuse affect a person's style of thinking or ability to

think?
D. How are these effects on thinking addressed in treatment and

recovery?
E. How do effects of alcohol and other drugs on the mind and

body change if drugs are combined with one another or with other

substances?
F. What effect has AODA had on our city, state, nation, and

world?

A. What process do I now use to set rules for myself concerning alcohol and

other drugs?
B. How does this process compare with the way I established

rules for myself when I was younger?
C. Do my rules about alcohol and

other drugs allow me to make positive choices for myself?
D. Do my rules

about alcohol and other drugs affect others positively, negatively, or in a

mixed way?
E. What are my internalized rules for alcohol and other

drugs?
F. How do these rules compare with previous rules and with

external rules?
G. What is the basis of the school's, community's, and

society's thinking that generated current laws and policies related to alcohol

and other drugs?
H. How can a person differentiate norms from rules and

laws related to alcohol and other drugs?
I. What are the implications

for myself and others if the majority of people in society choose to ignore

rules and laws related to alcohol and other drugs?
J. What are the legal

consequences for me of ignoring rules and laws related to alcohol and other

drugs?
K. What are justifiable criteria for judging the fairness of

rules, laws, policies, and norms related to alcohol and other drugs?
L.

If rules, laws, policies, and norms related to alcohol and other drugs are

proven unfair, what is the appropriate response to individuals and society?

A. What skills and attitudes have I developed that help keep me and others

safe and healthy in relation to AODA?
B. How consistently do I apply

these skills and attitudes in AODA-related situations?
C. What kind of

support do I need to help me consistently use these skills and

attitudes?
D. How have my skills and attitudes improved as I've gotten

older?
E. How do these skills and attitudes affect my risk of becoming

infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or other sexually

transmitted diseases, having a child with fetal alcohol syndrome, becoming a

victim or perpetrator of sexual violence, being involved in an unplanned

pregnancy, dropping out of school and breaking the law?
F. How can I foster

positive skills and attitudes in others?
G. How can I become involved in

the social systems that exist to develop positive skills and attitudes in

citizens and help those with AODA-related problems?
H. How can I become an

advocate for AODA programs in my school and community?

Potential Integration Areas:

Health, Developmental Guidance, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Reading,

Speech, Foreign Language, Family and Consumer Education, History. Economics,

Drama, Psychology, Music, English, Driver's Education

Health, Developmental Guidance, Art, Science, Physical Education, Social

Studies, Speech, Math, Family and Consumer Education, History, Economics,

English, Music, Drama, Science, Psychology, Business Education, Agriculture,

Technical Education, Driver's Education

Health, Developmental Guidance, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Speech,

Foreign Language, Physical Education, Family and Consumer Education, History,

Economics, English, Music, Drama, Science, Psychology, Business Education,

Agriculture, Technical Education, Driver's Education

Health, Developmental Guidance, Art, Science, Physical Education, Social

Studies, Speech, Math, Family and Consumer Education, English, Drama, Science,

Psychology, Agriculture, Business Education, Technical Education, Driver's

Education

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