Traditional Family Values and Substance Abuse

The Hispanic Contribution to an Alternative Prevention and Treatment Approach

• Author(s): Mary Cuadrado, Louis Lieberman,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 220
• ISBN_10: 1461506492
  ISBN_13: 9781461506492
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / General , Medical / Preventive Medicine , Medical / Epidemiology , Medical / Public Health , Psychology / Personality ,

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.