Adolescent substance abuse: evidence-based approaches to prevention and treatment

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 teenagers mature,they pose particular challenges to the professionals charged with keeping them clean and sober and helping them maintain recovery into adulthood. Adolescent Substance Abuse: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment offers clear, interdisciplinary guidance that grounds readers in the many contexts – developmental, genetic, social, and familial among them – crucial to creating effective interventions and prevention methods. Its contributors examine current findings regarding popularly used therapies, including psychopharmacology, residential treatment, school- and community-based programs, group homes, and specific forms of individual, family, and group therapy. Gathers into one concise volume the evidence in support of or against the use of psychopharmacology Reviews the positives and negatives of residential treatment, community care (e.g., group homes), specific individual and group therapies Examines familytherapies and provides an overview of programs that work effectively in schools and communities INDICE: Preface.- 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 Adultsin Addiction Treatment.- Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment: A Review of Evidence-Based Research.- Adolescence Outpatient Treatment.- Evidence-based Family Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse and Dependence.- Residential Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders: Evidence Based Approaches andBest 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.- Epilogue: The Status of Knowledge Development and Evidence Based Interventions for Adolescent Substance Abuse.- About the Editors.- About the Authors.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-09730-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 270
• Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés