William B. Hansen, Ph.D.

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• William B. Hansen, Ph.D.
• Tanglewood Research
• Greensboro, North Carolina

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All Stars

• Based on over 20 years of research
• Focuses on changing risk and protective factors
  that account for the onset of drug use and other
  high-risk behaviors
• Designed to be culturally adaptive
• Features highly interactive methods

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What Do Teachers Typically Do?How Teachers Spend
Their Time
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How Teachers Should Spend Their Time
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All StarsOrganization and Focus

• School and community versions
• Focus on
• Idealism
• Norm Setting
• Commitment Building
• Positive Parental Attention
• Bonding
• Knowledge (social and immediate consequences)

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Idealism

• Idealism means
• Having a positive future that is imagined or
  dreamed about
• Perceiving that high-risk behaviors would
  interfere with fulfilling that future
• Resilience in over-coming obstacles and
  challenges that might occur

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Idealism and Drug Use
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Steps to Strengthening Idealism

• Identify and clarify a vision of the future
• Personalize the vision so that it becomes
  synonymous with a desired reputation
• Make sure students feel their vision of the
  future does not fit with high-risk behaviors

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Idealism Sessions

• Forward to the Future
• Ideal Futures
• Reputations
• Make Your Mark

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Possible Futures
Guess Which are Desired
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The Most Desired Futures
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The Least Desired Futures
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Norms

• Refers to two concepts
• How common a behavior is
• How acceptable a behavior is
• Can be applied
• To an entire society
• To generational, cultural, religious, ethnic, and
  friendship sub-groups within society

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How Do Different Groups of Drinkers Estimate
Prevalence?
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How Do Different Groups of Drinkers View Social
Acceptability?
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Educational Strategies for Establishing
Conventional Norms

• Collect information from individuals
• Calculate actual prevalence of use
• Portray actual attitudes about use
• Provide believable and persuasive feedback
• Encourage the group to actively adopt
  conventional norms

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Norm Setting Sessions

• Opinion Poll Game
• Where Do I Stand?
• Debates
• Unwritten Rules and the Court of Public Opinion
• Opinion Poll Game Rematch

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Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial Results
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Commitment

• Commitment means
• Having a personal intention to avoid drug use and
  other high-risk behaviors
• Developing skills to keep those intentions
• Making commitments known to others
• Having reminders that reinforce existing
  commitments

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Commitment Sessions

• The Definition of an Adult
• The Commitment Game
• Personal Commitment Draft
• Personal Commitment Interview
• Videotaped Commitments
• Celebration and Commitment Ring and Certificate

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Results of All Stars Field Trial
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Conclusion

• All Stars is
• Highly effective
• Easy to adapt
• Highly interactive
• A program providers and students alike love to be
  a part of

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