Adolescent Substance Abuse
Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment
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Beschreibung
The second edition of this book incorporates the latest theory, research, and best practices for understanding, treating, and preventing substance abuse among adolescents. It updates the progress made in treatments for and prevention of the misuse of substances and adds new specific chapters on prescriptions, opiates, and methamphetamine abuse. The book discusses the effects of commonly abused substances, from tobacco and alcohol to stimulants and opioids, on the human brain and the various psychosocial routes to their misuse by adolescents. Chapters provide evidence-based guidelines for assessing adolescent treatment needs and review psychological, pharmacological, family, and self-help interventions. The book offers new paths in diverse directions, analyzes the core components of substance use prevention, critiques emerging school-based interventions, and introduces a nuanced reconceptualization of recovery.
Topics featured in the book include:
- The effect of family and caregiver situations on adolescent substance abuse.
- A biological/genetic perspective on adolescent substance abuse.
- School-based preventions and the evolution of evidence-based strategies.
- The role of adolescent self-help in substance abuse interventions.
- Community-based interventions to reduce alcohol use and misuse.
Adolescent Substance Abuse, Second Edition, is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, social work, public health, developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and various interrelated mental health and social policy arenas.
The second edition of this book incorporates the latest theory, research, and best practices for understanding, treating, and preventing substance abuse among adolescents. It updates the progress made in treatments for and prevention of the misuse of substances and adds new specific chapters on prescriptions, opiates, and methamphetamine abuse. The book discusses the effects of commonly abused substances, from tobacco and alcohol to stimulants and opioids, on the human brain and the various psychosocial routes to their misuse by adolescents. Chapters provide evidence-based guidelines for assessing adolescent treatment needs and review psychological, pharmacological, family, and self-help interventions. The book offers new paths in diverse directions, analyzes the core components of substance use prevention, critiques emerging school-based interventions, and introduces a nuanced reconceptualization of recovery.
Topics featured in the book include:
- The effect of family and caregiver situations on adolescent substance abuse.
- A biological/genetic perspective on adolescent substance abuse.
- School-based preventions and the evolution of evidence-based strategies.
- The role of adolescent self-help in substance abuse interventions.
- Community-based interventions to reduce alcohol use and misuse.
Adolescent Substance Abuse, Second Edition, is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, social work, public health, developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and various interrelated mental health and social policy arenas.
Explores current research on treatment and prevention of substance abuse during adolescence Offers new chapters on prevention and treatment of adolescent prescription, opiate, and methamphetamine abuse as well as juvenile justice and adolescent females Examines social, behavioral, and biological factors contributing to adolescent substance abuse Emphasizes evidenced-based approaches that work, might work, and don’t work
Autor*in
Carl G. Leukefeld
Themen in »Adolescent Substance Abuse«
Adolescence and substance abuse Alcohol and teenagers Biological factors and adolescent drug misuse Community resources and teenage substance abuse Epidemiology and teenage substance abuse Genetic factors and adolescent drug misuse Heroin and adolescents Juvenile justice and adolescent substance abuse Marijuana and adolescents Methamphetamine abuse during adolescence Opioid abuse and adolescence Prescription drug abuse and adolescents Prevention and adolescent substance abuse Recovery and female adolescents Residential drug treatment and adolescence