Presented By: Department of Psychology
Developmental Area Brown Bag - A Developmental Perspective on Substance Use during Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood
John Schulenberg, Professor of Psychology; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research University of Michigan
Abstract: A better understanding of adolescence can come from placing it within the life course and systematically considering continuities and discontinuities in developmental course and connections across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The extent to which the characteristics and experiences of adolescence and the transition to adulthood make a difference on adult health and well-being, over and above the effects of childhood, is more assumed than empirically known. Because of continuities and discontinuities across the life course, some experiences and periods in life are more consequential than others; to advance our science and provide convincing evidence for social policy we need to know the long-term consequential characteristics and experiences of adolescence and the transition to adulthood. To this end, I present findings and conceptualizations regarding substance use across adolescence and adulthood to illustrate issues of continuity and discontinuity, heterogeneity in the course, risk factors, and consequences of substance use, and the power of developmental transitions on the course of health and well-being.
Bio: John Schulenberg is Professor, Department of Psychology, and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. He has published widely on several topics concerning adolescence and the transition to adulthood. As PI of the NIDA-funded U.S. national Monitoring the Future Follow-up Study on the epidemiology and etiology of substance use from adolescence through adulthood, he brings a developmental perspective to the understanding of individual and contextual risk factors, course, co-morbidity, consequences, and historical variation of substance use. Over the years, he has collaborated on several international interdisciplinary projects involving long-term studies to address key questions about life course pathways and connections. His work has been funded by NIAAA, NICHD, NIDA, NIMH, NSF, RWJF, Spencer, and WT Grant. For these and other institutes and foundations, he has served on numerous advisory and review committees, including chairing the NIH Psychosocial Development and Risk Prevention Study Section. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council’s consensus committee on Health and Well-Being during the Transition to Adulthood that recently published Investing in the health and well-being of young adults. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Past President of the Society for Research on Adolescence. John coached youth community and travel baseball teams for 14 years.
Bio: John Schulenberg is Professor, Department of Psychology, and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. He has published widely on several topics concerning adolescence and the transition to adulthood. As PI of the NIDA-funded U.S. national Monitoring the Future Follow-up Study on the epidemiology and etiology of substance use from adolescence through adulthood, he brings a developmental perspective to the understanding of individual and contextual risk factors, course, co-morbidity, consequences, and historical variation of substance use. Over the years, he has collaborated on several international interdisciplinary projects involving long-term studies to address key questions about life course pathways and connections. His work has been funded by NIAAA, NICHD, NIDA, NIMH, NSF, RWJF, Spencer, and WT Grant. For these and other institutes and foundations, he has served on numerous advisory and review committees, including chairing the NIH Psychosocial Development and Risk Prevention Study Section. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council’s consensus committee on Health and Well-Being during the Transition to Adulthood that recently published Investing in the health and well-being of young adults. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Past President of the Society for Research on Adolescence. John coached youth community and travel baseball teams for 14 years.
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