You can juggle several identities at once and try many brands over a lifetime. No brand comes with a trouble-free guarantee. In his studies at Point of the Mountain and a residential drug treatment center, Jones found more diffusers among violent criminals, achievers among white collar criminals and foreclosers among those being treated for drug offenses. Left to their own devices, diffusers may never find their place. That is why Jones advises a shift in public school prevention programming.
Prevention is broad-based and directed at all students.
The Arizona schools studied by Jones used his findings to identify at-risk students who might benefit from existing intervention programs. He would like to see schools take the additional step of designing programs for diffusers that would modify their self-defeating behavior. Of the existing programs, Jones has been particularly impressed with alternative high schools, where class schedules are linked to educational results. Instead of rushing through five or six classes a day, students immerse themselves in half that number. Lumped together, diffusers can make their way to the top where jocks and cheerleaders predominate in traditional high schools.