Life Skills and the prevention of psychoactive substance use

According to Botvin (2004) and Sloboda (2004), there is empirical evidence that prevention programs, such as Life Skills, based on knowledge, identification of risk factors and development of psychosocial skills related to drugs are more effective. One of the examples of the use of the life skills model for the prevention of the use of psychoactive substances, with greater success and application time, is the work of more than 20 years carried out by Botvin and collaborators, from Cornell University, United States. With the school as its stage of action, the program called Life Skills Training...