We learned some very important lessons early on with the Adventure Trial and its predecessor Preventure. The programme divided students with a high propensity for risk-taking behaviour into four key groups so that a tailor-made intervention, based on cognitive behaviour therapy, could be delivered to them.
The programme’s aim was to reduce drinking behaviour by teaching students to better manage the personality traits and individual tendencies that put them at higher risk of problem drinking.
The accuracy of the groupings, based on the kids scaling a very short questionnaire, was uncanny. Keeping the impulsive and sensation seekers in the room was always a challenge and the anxiety sensitives had to be handled with care.
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