Overview
- British Medical Association book award winner
- Explores the complexities of young adult drinking behaviours and profound changes in recent young adult drinking trends
- Advocates for a more inclusive approach to understanding how young adults approach alcohol
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This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old). Its chapters showcase an interdisciplinary range of perspectives from psychology, sociology, criminology, geography, public health and social policy. The contributors address themes including how identity becomes involved in young adult drinking practices; issues relating to the non-consumption of alcohol within friendship groups; and the role of social context, religious and ethnic orientation, gender identity, and social media use. In doing so, they highlight changing trends in alcohol consumption among young people, which have seen notably fewer young adults consuming alcohol over the last two decades.
In acknowledging the complex nature of drinking styles among young adults, the contributors to this collection eschew traditional understandings of young adult drinking which can pathologise and generalise. They advocate instead for an inclusive approach, as demonstrated in the wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, cultural perspectives, methods and international settings represented in this book, in order to better understand the economic, socio-cultural and pharmacological crossroads at which we now stand. This book will appeal in particular to researchers, theorists, practitioners and policy makers working in the alcohol and drugs field, public health and health psychology, in addition to students and researchers from across the social sciences.
In acknowledging the complex nature of drinking styles among young adults, the contributors to this collection eschew traditional understandings of young adult drinking which can pathologise and generalise. They advocate instead for an inclusive approach, as demonstrated in the wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, cultural perspectives, methods and international settings represented in this book, in order to better understand the economic, socio-cultural and pharmacological crossroads at which we now stand. This book will appeal in particular to researchers, theorists, practitioners and policy makers working in the alcohol and drugs field, public health and health psychology, in addition to students and researchers from across the social sciences.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Young Adult Drinking in Context
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Recognizing the Breadth of Young Adult Drinking Styles
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Alcohol Policy Relating to Young Adult Drinking Practices
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dominic Conroy is Lecturer in psychology at the University of East London, UK. Dominic is interested in exploring young adult drinking practices that illuminate issues of intimacy and social bonding underpinning alcohol use and developing understanding of flexible drinking styles and agency involved in young adults’ alcohol use. Dominic’s mixed methods research also involves developing effective behavioural interventions designed to reduce excessive alcohol consumption among young adults.
Fiona Measham is Chair in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Fiona has conducted research for nearly three decades across a broad area of criminology and social policy, exploring changing trends in legal and illegal drugs, night time and festival economies and the socio-cultural context to consumption. Fiona has served on numerous scientific advisory committees and expert panels and is co-founder and co-director of The Loop UK and The Loop AU.
This book was nominated as the category winner in Psychiatry at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2021.
Fiona Measham is Chair in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Fiona has conducted research for nearly three decades across a broad area of criminology and social policy, exploring changing trends in legal and illegal drugs, night time and festival economies and the socio-cultural context to consumption. Fiona has served on numerous scientific advisory committees and expert panels and is co-founder and co-director of The Loop UK and The Loop AU.
This book was nominated as the category winner in Psychiatry at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Young Adult Drinking Styles
Book Subtitle: Current Perspectives on Research, Policy and Practice
Editors: Dominic Conroy, Fiona Measham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28607-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28606-4Published: 11 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28609-5Published: 08 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28607-1Published: 30 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 364
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Public Health, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Applied Psychology, Social Policy