approach (e.g., pros and cons of drinking, normative feedback) can also be used with male youth at risk for problematic drinking (Brown, Anderson, Schulte, Sintov, & Frissell, 2005). Boys may benefit more from learning basic decision-making strategies since their executive functioning skill set appears to be developing at a slower pace than that of girls. While both genders could benefit from such prevention/intervention efforts, male adolescents may require increased therapeutic dosage in order to attain the cognitive schema and skills that protect adolescent females from a trajectory of escalated alcohol involvement.
