Chunk #14 — Substance Misuse in North America — Personality-Targeted Interventions for the Prevention of Alcohol and Illicit Drug Misuse: the Preventure Programme
The main difference between the personality-targeted approach and other brief intervention strategies (e.g. brief motivational interviewing; [53]) is that each component is introduced and discussed in personality-specific ways. For example, the IMP intervention will discuss drug and alcohol expectancies as they pertain to IMP, as well as promote the development of cognitive behavioural skills that are most relevant to cognitive control and response inhibition, whereas the AS intervention will challenge expectancies related to the positive nature of anxiolytic substances, while also helping high-risk youth learn to challenge their catastrophic reactions to interoceptive cues and reduce avoidance behaviours in response to such cues. The cognitive–behavioural strategies that are used in the personality-targeted approach are closely based on the evidence-based strategies that would be used in CBT interventions for major psychiatric disorders to which each of these personality profiles is most relevant, for example, CBT for depression in the case of HOP (e.g. [54]), CBT for panic disorder in the case of AS (e.g. [55, 56]) or CBT for ADHD in the case of IMP (e.g. [57]).
