By H. Waldron
It is a unmarried reference resource for cutting-edge, empirically-tested methods to assessing, fighting, and treating adolescent substance abuse difficulties. earlier texts on adolescent substance abuse have given constrained awareness to intervention, were non-empirical in orientation, or were dedicated to a unmarried intervention process. This booklet comprises sixteen chapters from leaders within the box, with a scope that incorporates review, fundamental prevention, secondary prevention, and therapy.
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Assessing Adolescent Substance Use 21 Problem Recognition Questionnaire (PRQ). , action orientation). The scale was developed with a combination of rational and empirical procedures. The PRQ factors have adequate internal reliability and were shown to modestly predict posttreatment functioning in an adolescent substance-abusing population (Cady, Winters, Jordan & Solheim, 1996). Circumstances, Motivation, Readiness and Suitability scales (CMRS). The 25-item CMRS, which was originally developed for use with adults in a therapeutic community setting, has also been evaluated for use with drug-abusing adolescents (Jainchill, Bhattacharya & Yagelka, 1995).
This consists of ten booster sessions in grade eight and five in grade nine. For school districts with a middle school, the LST program can be implemented with students in grades six, seven, and eight. Below is a brief description of the major components of the LST program. Program Components Personal self-management skills. The personal skills component of the LST program is designed to impact on a broad array of self-management skills. , goal-setting, self-monitoring, sel f-reinforcement). Social skills.
87). Perceived-Benefit of Drinking and Drug Use Scales. This ten-item scale was constructed to serve as a non-threatening problem severity screen (Petchers & Singer, 1987). It is based on the approach that beliefs about drug use, particularly regarding expected personal benefits of drug use, reflect actual use. Five perceived-benefit questions are asked regarding use of alcohol and then repeated for drug use. 74) and is related to several key indicators of drug use behavior when tested in school and adolescent inpatient psychiatric samples (Petchers & Singer, 1990).