Abusive alcohol use in adolescence is at the moment, a bad public health problem, to the extent that its prevention has become one of the priorities in health policies. Also, in the field of social intervention, studies have shown, that there are psychosocial factors involved in such consumption. Now it carried out a review of these factors within the framework of the ecological perspective, in which the variables of psychological, relational and sociocultural. Alcohol consumption is analyzed as an integral part of youth culture, stripping away the explanation of pathological or moralistic content, and approaching the conception that alcohol consumption is a means used by adolescents to achieve their adjustment in a society characterized …show more content…
Attitudes toward alcohol are reflects what the young people has learned through its friends, through some social customs, practices, family, and through advertising and other messages contained in the media.
But attitudes must not become areas or specific areas of educational work, but their natural educational treatment corresponds to all situations and experiences that the young adult has had in their education or family background, along the whole process of its formation as a person.
How far above we can infer that the family can become both prominent source risk factors and protective factors and that, consequently, their role is central to the prevention. Prevention of alcohol abuse, the prevention of drug abuse in general.
The truth is that it has been more than three decades since World Health Organization (WHO) recommends its Member States not to focus on the health sector in the dissemination of Information, since the information received is not enough for a change of attitude and behavior.
That is, inform young people on the dangers of alcohol is not sufficient to reduce the likelihood of abusive sumo, because this depends on other …show more content…
In relation to the role of objective information, it is necessary to remember that a characteristic of the logic of adolescent thinking is the illusion of invulnerability. It is a type of perception of the reality in which the subject underestimates the probability that the negative consequences of such of a certain behavior, despite knowing the relationship between such behavior and such consequences.
Body 2: (Norms)
Adolescence is the period in which the social habit of drinking alcohol appears. Is a transition period between childhood and adulthood, in which the adolescent feels a member and participant of an "old culture" characterized by its own behaviors, values, norms, slang, spaces and fashions. The norms of groups in which adolescents is integrated, the commitments assumed in them and the values that by the group interaction internalize contribute to the construction of their self.
In this evolutionary context, consumption of alcohol becomes part of the culture for many and for young youth and is common and shared, which is built by them through interaction. Youth leisure can be analyzed as a social construction reflecting discourses, norms and collective values, within a historical cultural