Chunk #15 — Substance Misuse in North America — Personality-Targeted Interventions for the Prevention of Alcohol and Illicit Drug Misuse: the Preventure Programme
The one intervention for which very little evidence-based strategies were available at the time of developing the Preventure Programme was the intervention targeting SS. Our research has shown that one of the most important distinctions between SS and IMP is that SS does not appear to be related to risk for the other forms of non-addictive psychopathology. Therefore, sensation seekers tend not to be seen in general psychology or psychiatry clinics: As a consequence, other than interventions for substance use disorders, few CBT intervention strategies have been developed to help sensation seekers moderate the cognitive and behavioural tendencies that contribute to their difficulties in life.
