Chunk #125 — Urgency and Psychopathology — Urgency and Psychological Interventions — Urgency-based Interventions as Distinct from Sensation Seeking-based Interventions
For adolescents high in sensation seeking, researchers have developed media prevention messages with high “sensation value,” meaning they elicit unusually high levels of sensory arousal; these messages encourage alternative, safer means of seeking sensation (Stephenson, 2003). They have been effective in reducing substance use among high sensation seeking adolescents, and the effects were largely specific to that group (Everett & Palmgreen, 1995; Lorch, Palmgreen, & Donohew, 1994; Palmgreen, Donohew, & Lorch, 2001, 2002; Palmgreen & Donohew, 1993; Stephenson et al., 1999; Stephenson, Morgan, & Lorch, 2002). These efforts reflect an important success in selective prevention.
