Internship report : St. John's Adolescent Health Counselling Service/Behavioral Group Therapy : efficacy for the cessation/reduction of smoking in adolescents

• Main Author: Buffett, Ena Jean, 1963-
• Other Authors: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Faculty of Education
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: Dr. Charles A. Janeway Child Health Centre (St. John's; N.L.) > Adolescent Health Counsellinng Service; Youth > Tobacco use > Newfoundland and Labrador; Smoking cessation; Newfoundland; Canada; Newfoundland studies; University of Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/theses2/id/192111

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1993. Education Bibliography: leaves 66-75. This report describes a thirteen week full-time counselling internship completed from April to August, 1988, at the St. John's Adolescent Health Counselling Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland. Included is a statement of the internship objectives and rationale, a description of the internship activities, evaluation procedures utilized during the internship and a required research study. This study was set up to measure the efficacy of a multi-component behavioral group program, 'Freedom From Smoking in 20 Days', with adolescents. T-tests were employed to assess the changes in smoking behavior for 12 adolescent program participants (pre/post and three month follow-up) as compared to a control group of twelve adolescents. It was found that the program participants significantly reduced their smoking rate at program completion and three month follow-up, as compared to non participants.