De Visser and colleagues (2015) designed an intervention to address the harmful alcohol use among young people at NIU. To ensure that the intervention would appeal to its target audience, the researchers surveyed approximately 1,400 young people about the strategies that they thought would be effective to combat binge drinking. Participants indicated that an intervention that focused on which of the following skills would be effective?
a. interpersonal skills to know how to avoid certain environments
b. teaching skills to resist alcohol consumption when others were drinking
c. social skills to know when to drink
d. conflict management skills
Ans: B
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