Introduction
Alcohol consumption and students have a long history and tradition together, but why do students feel the need to participate in such harmful activities? Binge drinking has been linked to activities such as physical injury, high-risk sexual behavior, alcohol overdoses, alcohol-impaired driving, psychosocial problems, anti-social behavior and academic difficulties (Capece, 2013). Student alcohol abuse has a strong correlation to Albert Bandura’s social learning theory. Social learning theory is the concept that people learn through observation, furthermore, direct instruction, modeling, and imitation are other ways individuals learn behaviours. Students alcohol abuse happens in a student’s life when they are stressed and do not …show more content…
Being away from home can be an exciting time, however, can also be a nerve-racking. Students feel the pressure to achieve the full college experience while also balancing school and their social life. Most of these students do not have the support system of their family and friends as previously in their lives, therefore, the pressure mounts to make friends and create a new support system. At the beginning of a new school year, the weather is nice and campuses and dorms have events to get students out to socialize, these events are a good way to meet new individuals, however, the events also lead to meeting new individuals who have connections to other events happening constantly and throughout the school year. Most of these events involve alcohol and meeting new people. At these events students can view how other students who have experienced college or are considered popular have fun, according to Borsari “For example, watching peers drink provides the college student with information about both how to use alcohol and how other students will react to different levels of drinking (e.g. reward or punish the behavior).” New students’ watch these individuals who are considered successful in college and believe in they act/ participate in events with alcohol the same way they can be …show more content…
The family, school, and law enforcement have to work together to educate youth on the dangers of alcohol abuse. It must start at home with the family life. The family needs to set a good example and not show the youth any bad habits that they could observe and imitate; furthermore, being able to communicate and express the danger to the youth is needed as well. The school has to educate the youth by bringing in experts and showing the dangers of alcohol abuse. The Government of Canada has numerous types of program options available for schools to use. There should be no excuse why schools are not educating their students on alcohol abuse when there is information available to them, such as the Government of Canada website, which has step-by-step processes to initiate the programs. Lastly, law enforcement should present to students on the danger of alcohol abuse. Law enforcement should discuss the correlation between alcohol and substance abuse and the more likelihood of being involved in delinquent behaviors. As a society alcohol abuse among students will never be completely gone, however the more information and support groups given to students to help them cope with the stress of school, the better they will be able to make proper healthy decisions when it comes to alcohol
Alcohol consumption and students have a long history and tradition together, but why do students feel the need to participate in such harmful activities? Binge drinking has been linked to activities such as physical injury, high-risk sexual behavior, alcohol overdoses, alcohol-impaired driving, psychosocial problems, anti-social behavior and academic difficulties (Capece, 2013). Student alcohol abuse has a strong correlation to Albert Bandura’s social learning theory. Social learning theory is the concept that people learn through observation, furthermore, direct instruction, modeling, and imitation are other ways individuals learn behaviours. Students alcohol abuse happens in a student’s life when they are stressed and do not …show more content…
Being away from home can be an exciting time, however, can also be a nerve-racking. Students feel the pressure to achieve the full college experience while also balancing school and their social life. Most of these students do not have the support system of their family and friends as previously in their lives, therefore, the pressure mounts to make friends and create a new support system. At the beginning of a new school year, the weather is nice and campuses and dorms have events to get students out to socialize, these events are a good way to meet new individuals, however, the events also lead to meeting new individuals who have connections to other events happening constantly and throughout the school year. Most of these events involve alcohol and meeting new people. At these events students can view how other students who have experienced college or are considered popular have fun, according to Borsari “For example, watching peers drink provides the college student with information about both how to use alcohol and how other students will react to different levels of drinking (e.g. reward or punish the behavior).” New students’ watch these individuals who are considered successful in college and believe in they act/ participate in events with alcohol the same way they can be …show more content…
The family, school, and law enforcement have to work together to educate youth on the dangers of alcohol abuse. It must start at home with the family life. The family needs to set a good example and not show the youth any bad habits that they could observe and imitate; furthermore, being able to communicate and express the danger to the youth is needed as well. The school has to educate the youth by bringing in experts and showing the dangers of alcohol abuse. The Government of Canada has numerous types of program options available for schools to use. There should be no excuse why schools are not educating their students on alcohol abuse when there is information available to them, such as the Government of Canada website, which has step-by-step processes to initiate the programs. Lastly, law enforcement should present to students on the danger of alcohol abuse. Law enforcement should discuss the correlation between alcohol and substance abuse and the more likelihood of being involved in delinquent behaviors. As a society alcohol abuse among students will never be completely gone, however the more information and support groups given to students to help them cope with the stress of school, the better they will be able to make proper healthy decisions when it comes to alcohol