Innovations in Adolescent Substance Abuse Interventions

Download or read book Innovations in Adolescent Substance Abuse Interventions written by Eric Wagner and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovations in Adolescent Substance Abuse Interventions focuses on developmentally appropriate approaches to the assessment, prevention, or treatment of substance use problems among adolescents. Organized into 16 chapters, this book begins with an assessment of adolescent substance use; theory, methods, and effectiveness of a drug abuse prevention approach; and problem behavior prevention programming for schools and community groups. Some chapters follow on the community-, family- and school-based interventions for adolescents with substance use problems. Other chapters explain psychopharmacological therapy; the assertive aftercare protocol for adolescent substance abusers; and twelve-step-based interventions for adolescents.