Creating active involvement interventions to effectively reduce adolescent health risk behavior

This chapter discusses how active involvement prevention interventions can be used to reduce adolescents’ health risk behaviors. Considering the impact of these risk behaviors, it is essential to develop effective prevention and intervention strategies to reduce the uptake of such behaviors during adolescence. The active involvement prevention interventions allow for tailoring the program to the adolescent audience, which fosters engagement and therefore stronger effects of the program. We first discuss the theoretical foundations of the theory. Next, we discuss different programs which have incorporated these foundations in their intervention strategies. Finally, we discuss how future programs could integrate active involvement interventions and which research avenues are still open.