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Traditional Family Values and Substance Abuse: The Hispanic Contribution to an Alternative Prevention and Treatment Approach

By Mary Cuadrado , Louis Lieberman (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2002
ISBN
978-1-4613-5176-4, 978-1-4615-0649-2
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-0649-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18431844 bytes)
Series
The Plenum Series in Culture and Health
Edition
1
Pages
220\224
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
general; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention;Psychology

Description

Based on findings from a sample of nearly 1,100 Puerto Ricans living in the New York area, this book posits that adhering to traditional cultural values (for example, the family) has the socially desirable consequence of discouraging such deviant behaviors as substance abuse. The authors conclude that promoting specific values will not prevent certain individual and social ills; rather, promoting a `sense of tradition' itself is needed.

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