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College And Alcohol Essay, Research Paper

College Alcohol Risk

Assessment Guide

Environmental Approaches to Prevention

Barbara E. Ryan / Tom Colthurst / Lance Segars, PhD

The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention

Education Development Center, Inc.

55 Chapel Street

Newton, MA 02158-1060

Tel: 800 676-1730

In cooperation with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Studies UCSD Extension,

University of California, San Diego

This publication was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education,

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE).

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank the individuals listed below for reviewing draft manuscripts for this

publication. We appreciate the comments they provided to help the authors assure

that this Guide has a solid scientific foundation and contains clear messages. To the

extent that we achieved that goal, the credit is theirs. To the extent that we didn’t, the

fault is ours.

William DeJong, PhD, lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health.

James H. Evans, MS, assistant professor of behavioral sciences and chair, Chemical

Dependency Program, San Diego City College.

Louis Gliksman, PhD, scientist and acting director, Social Evaluation and Research

Department, Addiction Foundation, London, Ontario, Canada.

Thomas Griffin, MSW, division director, Health Promotion Resources, St. Paul, MN.

Lavona M. Grow, director of dissemination competition, FIPSE, Drug Prevention

Programs in Higher Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC.

Harold D. Holder, PhD, director, Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for

Research and Evaluation, Berkeley.

Karen Hughes, MPH, associate director, the Trauma Foundation at San Francisco

General Hospital.

Michelle Johnston, MPH, campus organizer, University of California, San Diego.

Chris Lovato, PhD, project director, California College Health 2000, San Diego State

University.

Special thanks go to members of the San Diego Area Intercollegiate Consortium for

the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems and to participants in project

focus groups who provided valuable insight and direction for the development of this

Guide.

U.S. Department of Education

This guide is a publication of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other

Drug Prevention funded by the U.S. Department of Education, under contract No.

SS95013001. Views expressed are those of the contractor. No official support or

endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education is intended or should be inferred.

The University of California, San Diego, first published the CARA in 1994, with

support from the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of

Postsecondary Education. The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug

Prevention subsequently engaged the same authorship team to update the publication,

hence this Second Edition, 1997.

Layout Design: J. Lane Designs

Production: The Higher Education Center

College Alcohol Risk

Assessment Guide

Environmental Approaches to Prevention

4 Introduction

11 Problem-Oriented Prevention

13 Scanning

19 Analysis

25 Response

43 Assessment

49 Let Students Have a Say in Prevention

Appendices

A: Scanning Exercises

B: Analysis Exercises

C: Selected Publications and Resources

D: About the Authors

Introduction

The College Alcohol Risk Assessment Guide will help you identify and modify risks

that contribute to alcohol-related problems within college and university

communities.

The Guide describes methods and exercises you can follow to gather and organize

information about alcohol use and associated adverse consequences at institutions of

higher education and within surrounding communities.

Despite general agreement among campus officials and students alike that alcohol

use contributes to a range of problems confronting colleges and universities,

prevention often does not command a high priority for students, faculty, and staff.

Making the case for prevention can be frustrating work, posing the challenge of

getting people to understand why problems occur and how they can make a

difference.

The Guide can help you meet that challenge. Its four goals are to:

*help you gather information on the extent of problems related to alcohol use at your

college or university;

*help you understand and describe environmental factors within your campus

community that promote or discourage high-risk alcohol use;

*assist you in organizing information on alcohol-related problems in an intelligible

way, so that you can articulate concerns and generate a prevention support network at

your college;

*prepare you for work in reducing alcohol-related problems by identifying possible

issues that can stimulate prevention efforts.

What Is Prevention?

This Guide focuses on alcohol problem prevention, defined as the avoidance of

problems (the 5 Ds) related to alcohol use, such as social Disruption–including lost

academic opportunities–injury, property Damage, Disability and physical Disorder,

and premature Death.

Although problems related to the use of illicit drugs continue to challenge colleges

and universities, alcohol has long been the drug of choice among

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