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
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Issue in Childrens and Families Lives, 9
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Social work.; Applied psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.
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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:

• 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 Adults in 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 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
• Epilogue: The Status of Knowledge Development and Evidence Based Interventions for Adolescent Substance Abuse
• About the Editors
• About the Authors.