September 2, 2005
Psychology Meeting Tackles Student Drinking, Mental Health
Recent experimental evidence suggests that parental conversations can have powerful effects on students' drinking behavior, according to a scholar who spoke at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association on August 21.
Rob Turrisi, a professor of biobehavioral health at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, has worked for more than six years on a simple idea: Colleges might mail pamphlets to the parents of every newly admitted student, encouraging them to
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