Helping Youth Avoid Risky Behavior: Family-Based Program

Children’s behavior is determined, in part, by their genes and by the settings in which they develop. A new longitudinal study describes how a family-based prevention program helped rural African American teens avoid engaging in risky behaviors, even if some of them may have had a genetic risk to do so.

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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on May 18th, 2009