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Table 5 Relevant conceptual frameworks and intervention implications

From: Anticipating and addressing event-specific alcohol consumption among adolescents

 

Past

Present

Future

Conceptual frameworks

- Rite of passage rituals

- Maturation theories

- Social learning theory

- In-groups and out-groups

- Self-efficacy

- Regulatory focus

- Social memories

- Social capital

Intervention implications

- Reduce the role of alcohol in the rite of passage to adulthood

- Increase availability of, access to, and awareness of alternative activity options

- Improve self-efficacy relating to moderate drinking and refusal skills

- Work with young people to develop and deliver alternative activities