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By Thomas P. Gullotta (auth.), Carl Leukefeld, Thomas P. Gullotta, Michelle Staton-Tindall (eds.)
Substance abuse is, and has continually been, an incontrovertible fact of lifestyles. humans – particularly adolescents – abuse numerous felony and unlawful ingredients for any variety of purposes: to accentuate emotions, to accomplish deeper realization, to flee truth, to self-medicate. And as substance-abusing young children mature, they pose specific demanding situations to the pros charged with protecting them fresh and sober and aiding them keep restoration into adulthood.
Adolescent Substance Abuse: Evidence-Based techniques to Prevention and Treatment deals transparent, interdisciplinary counsel that grounds readers within the many contexts – developmental, genetic, social, and familial between them – the most important to making potent interventions and prevention tools. Its individuals study present findings relating to popularly used remedies, together with psychopharmacology, residential remedy, university- and community-based courses, team houses, and particular varieties of person, kin, and workforce therapy.
Accessible to a large specialist viewers, this volume:
- Presents evidence-based help for the therapy decision-making approach via deciding upon interventions that paintings, may possibly paintings, and don’t paintings.
- Identifies person characteristics linked to susceptibility to substance abuse and dependancy in youth.
- Provides a biogenetic version of the consequences of gear at the mind (and refines the idea that of gateway drugs).
- Evaluates the effectiveness of prevention courses at school and neighborhood settings.
- Adds ancient, religious, and felony views on substance use and misuse.
- Includes the bonus source, the neighborhood Prevention instruction manual on Adolescent Substance Abuse and Treatment.
This quantity is an all-in-one reference for counseling execs and clinicians operating with early life and households in addition to software builders in kingdom and native organisations and graduate scholars in counseling and prevention.
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