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elieve that using alcohol helps prove their manhood or helps them fit in with theirmale peer group. It is necessary to question the norms around alcohol use and tothink about how you and others can create forms of leisure and entertainment that donot place alcohol at the center.Trainingoptions1. Divide the participants into three or four small groups. Each will be given anassignment to draw a problem tree that looks at alcohol abuse.2. Draw a tree trunk in the center of a flipchart and label it “Alcohol Abuse.”3. Ask the group to discuss some of the causes of alcohol abuse. Each causeshould be depicted as one of the roots of the problem tree. After notingeach cause, the group should think about what contributes to that originalcause. For example, if one of the causes is “unemployment” then the groupshould think about what contributes to unemployment. One of thesubcauses could be “lack of economic opportunities.” This would then bedepicted as a subroot of the original cause.4. The problem tree will also look at the effects of alcohol abuse. Those effectswill be depicted as the branches of the problem tree. As with the causes, thegroups should brainstorm and identify the primary and secondary outcomesor effects. For example, domestic violence—which can result in serious harmor even death—is a secondary outcome of alcohol abuse.39