Adolescent Substance Abuse Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leukefeld, Carl (Editor), Gullotta, Thomas P. (Editor), Staton-Tindall, Michelle (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Issue in Children’s and Families’ Lives, 9
• Subjects: Psychology.; Social work.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

Substance abuse is, and has always been, an indisputable fact of life. People – especially young people – abuse various legal and illegal substances for any number of reasons: to intensify feelings, to achieve deeper consciousness, to escape reality, to self-medicate. And as substance-abusing teenag...

Table of Contents:

• A Selected Social History of the Stepping-Stone Drugs
• A Biological/Genetic Perspective: The Addicted Brain
• Individual Characteristics and Needs Associated with Substance Misuse of Adolescents and Young Adults in Addiction Treatment
• Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment: A Review of Evidence-Based Research
• Adolescent Outpatient Treatment
• Evidence-Based Family Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse and Dependence
• Residential Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders: Evidence-Based Approaches and Best Practice Recommendations
• Primary Prevention in Adolescent Substance Abuse
• Religious Involvement and Adolescent Substance Use
• School Prevention
• Community Prevention Handbook on Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment: Evidence-Based Practices.