One Shot-One Kill: a culturally sensitive program for the warrior culture.

Despite efforts to reduce the stigma of mental health services across branches of the United States military, lasting change among this warrior culture remains an uphill battle. Difficulty affecting change can be attributed in part to stigma associated with psychological services and largely, mental health providers' difficulty tailoring traditional models of treatment to military personnel. We will discuss the development of One Shot - One Kill (OSOK), a culturally sensitive mental health prevention program piloted to reduce stigma and improve help seeking behaviors among the warrior culture.

Alcohol abuse prevention among high-risk youth: computer-based intervention.

SUMMARYThis study examined the feasibility of a CD-ROM intervention to prevent alcohol abuse among high-risk youths. Youths from 41 community-based agencies in greater New York City participated in a randomized trial of a skills-based interactive CD-ROM. Outcome data were collected on 489 early adolescents in these agencies before and after a randomized subset of youths interacted with a 10-session alcohol abuse prevention program on CD-ROM.