Linda Langford

This article outlines a typology of programs and policies for preventing and treating campus-based alcohol-related problems, reviews recent case studies showing the promise of campus-based environmental management strategies and reports findings from a national survey of U.S. colleges and universities about available resources for pursuing environmentally focused prevention. The typology is grounded in a social ecological framework, which recognizes that health-related behaviors are affected through multiple levels of influence: intrapersonal (individual) factors, interpersonal (group) processes, institutional factors, community factors and public policy. The survey on prevention resources and activities was mailed to senior administrators responsible for their school's institutional response to substance use problems. The study sample was an equal probability sample of 365 2- and 4-year U.S. campuses. The response rate was 76.9%. Recent case studies suggest the value of environ...

Abstract: In response to ongoing concern about unacceptable levels of AOD (alcohol and other drug) use on campuses, in 1998 Congress authorized the Department of Education to identify and promote effective prevention through a model grants program. In 1999, ...

Many service members do not utilize the available services designed to assist them in coping with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems that emerge during active duty. In the current paper, we discuss the possible role stigma plays in the underutilization of treatments in the military, and attempt to transfer a well-articulated framework for understanding stigma and stigma-change in civilian populations to the military context. The literature was searched for papers reviewing negative beliefs about mental illness and fears of stigmatization and underutilization of treatments, especially as relevant to service members. We explain how public stigma, self stigma, and label avoidance may emerge as barriers to care seeking and service participation in soldiers, and propose approaches/strategies for change. We then discuss a number of recent applications of these approaches in both civilian and military initiatives. Stigma-change programs specifically created by/for the military that integrate components of education and direct contact with respected peers or veterans who have coped with mental health problems may have great utility at both the early stages of military training and later, when soldiers return from theatres of operation.

Multiple data sources were used to construct a database of intimate partner violence-related homicide cases from 1991 through 1995 in Massachusetts using an expanded case definition that includes others killed in the context of intimate partner disputes. Results show that nearly one in four victims who died in intimate partner-related incidents were victims other than the intimate partner. In a comparison of the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) with the study database, the SHR identified only 71.1% of the partner victims and could at best identify only 26.7% of the victims other than partners. Intimate homicides involving multiple victims were underreported in the SHR. Cases involving ex-boyfriend perpetrators were reported as partner homicides less often in the SHR than other intimate relationships. Rates calculated using a methodology designed to compensate for nonreporting and missing data in the SHR overestimated partner homicide rates. Issues of generalizability of...

HOMICIDE STUDIES/November 2001 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Reviewer Acknowledgments Grateful appreciationis expressed to the following individuals who prepared one or more reviews for Homicide Studies during the period July 2000 through June 2001. Thomas Baker, University of Scranton Candice Batton, University of Nebraska Paul Blackman, National Rifle Association Richard Block, Loyola University Paul Brantingham, Simon Fraser University Gray Cavender, Arizona State University Derral Cheatwood, University of Texas–San Antonio ...