The Family Context Of Adolescent Drug Use

Author : Robert H Coombs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317714972

Get Book

The Family Context of Adolescent Drug Use by Robert H Coombs Pdf

Here is an essential volume for educators, social workers, health care professionals, and parents who are frustrated by the consuming power of drugs over the lives of young people and looking for answers to this enormous problem. In this unique and highly practical volume, experts concentrate on the family--the foundation of mental health and social control--as the most positive force in the prevention of adolescent drug use. Despite the “war on drugs,” young people in large numbers continue to use substances. This instructive guide focuses on educating and strengthening families--which makes stronger children who are less likely to use drugs--instead of the traditional efforts based on rehabilitation instead of prevention. It offers instructive background information about societal forces that affect families and make it difficult to raise drug-free youngsters. Family differences are discussed, such as family structure, parenting styles, ethnic and cultural characteristics. Contributors thoroughly examine practical, effective interventions--at home, at school, and with peers--that are positive rather than negative, instructional rather than punitive, and preventive instead of remedial.

Author : Robert A. Zucker,Sandra A. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199735662

Get Book

The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse by Robert A. Zucker,Sandra A. Brown Pdf

Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem. It originates out of a developmental era where experimentation with the world is increasingly taking place, and where major changes in physical self and social relationships are taking place. These changes cannot be understood by any one discipline nor can they be described by focusing only on the behavioral and social problems of this age period, the characteristics of normal development, or the pharmacology and addictive potential of specific drugs. They require knowledge of the brain's systems of reward and control, genetics, psychopharmacology, personality, child development, psychopathology, family dynamics, peer group relationships, culture, social policy, and more. Drawing on the expertise of the leading researchers in this field, this Handbook provides the most comprehensive summarization of current knowledge about adolescent substance abuse. The Handbook is organized into eight sections covering the literature on the developmental context of this life period, the epidemiology of adolescent use and abuse, similarities and differences in use, addictive potential, and consequences of use for different drugs; etiology and course as characterized at different levels of mechanistic analysis ranging from the genetic and neural to the behavioural and social. Two sections cover the clinical ramifications of abuse, and prevention and intervention strategies to most effectively deal with these problems. The Handbook's last section addresses the role of social policy in framing the problem, in addressing it, and explores its potential role in alleviating it.

Author : Julie Anne Laser-Maira,David Blair,Jamie Blair Echevarria,Darin Wallis,Orion Castro,Jason Conger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190079413

Get Book

Youth and Their Families by Julie Anne Laser-Maira,David Blair,Jamie Blair Echevarria,Darin Wallis,Orion Castro,Jason Conger Pdf

Though a number of books covering adolescent substance abuse are available, there are very few resources that explore the topic in the context of Family Systems Therapy (FST). Youth and Their Families offers an expanded view of the therapeutic process with a specific focus on the relationship between therapists, adolescents, families, communities, and substance use. By applying an FST lens, the clinician learns to view their client as an entire family system being affected by adolescent substance abuse. Furthermore, FST can be used at every stage of the substance abuse intervention continuum (from prevention to intervention) to provide increased functioning and strength in the family system. This book incorporates easily applicable clinical skill acquisition with the use of lively cases to give the reader requisite skills to be an effective family systems therapist.

Author : Michelle A. Miller-Day,Janet Alberts,Michael L. Hecht,Melanie R. Trost,Robert L. Krizek
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135663476

Get Book

Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use by Michelle A. Miller-Day,Janet Alberts,Michael L. Hecht,Melanie R. Trost,Robert L. Krizek Pdf

Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who makes the offers and how they are resisted, where the offers take place, and what relationship exists between the persons making the offers and the persons receiving them. Unlike other studies of drug resistance, this work examines the communication processes that affect adolescents' ability to effectively resist drug offers. Michelle Miller and her colleagues study how personal qualities, communication skills, and relationships with others affect an individual's ability to resist offers of drugs. This volume provides a detailed analysis of drug resistance in the context of such factors as relationships, types of drugs, family and peer group relationships, personality, and situations. It places drug use and resistance in a living, relational context, and offers the first comprehensive communication and relational approach to drug resistance. The authors argue for the development of a relational and communication competence model of drug resistance, and suggest unique approaches for future drug prevention efforts. In describing the social and relational processes of drug resistance and then linking intervention techniques to the adolescents' relational world, this work makes a major contribution toward understanding drug use among adolescents. It informs relationship, communication, and psychology research, assists drug and health research by presenting new ways of considering the issue, and enlightens drug resistance practice by demonstrating a new approach to prevention. As such, it makes an effective and invaluable contribution to the ongoing efforts to reduce drug use among adolescents.

Author : Documentation Associates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : UCSC:32106014299959

Get Book

Drugs and Family/peer Influence by Documentation Associates Pdf

Author : Philip P. Muisener
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0803942761

Get Book

Understanding and Treating Adolescent Substance Abuse by Philip P. Muisener Pdf

"Treating substance abuse in adolescents requires a creative integration of individual, group, and family therapy, along with an understanding of addiction and recovery, family dynamics, and adolescent development. This book incorporates all of these elements into its discussion. Its thoroughness makes it a valuable addition to the literature in this relatively new clinical specialty." --Joseph K. Nowinski, Private Practice "This is a hopeful book that promotes a comprehensive view of a complicated difficulty." --Virginia Child Protection Newsletter

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UCR:31210012244941

Get Book

Adolescent Drug Abuse by Anonim Pdf

"Based on the papers from a technical review ... held on May 13-14, 1993 ... sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse"--T.p. verso.

Author : Robert A. Johnson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788145988

Get Book

The Relationship Between Family Structure and Adolescent Substance Use by Robert A. Johnson Pdf

This study uses data from approximately 22,000 respondents to the 1991, 1992, and 1993 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. Particular topics explored include: the particular family types that are most highly associated with adolescent substance use, dependence, and the need for treatment; the interaction between gender, race, ethnicity and family structure in substance abuse; the effects of family structure on type and pattern of substance use; and the effect of the gender of the custodial parent on the risk of substance use. Tables, references, and a technical appendix.

Author : Eric Wagner,Holly Waldron
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780080508771

Get Book

Innovations in Adolescent Substance Abuse Interventions by Eric Wagner,Holly Waldron Pdf

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.

Author : Sheila Greene,Diane Hogan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781847877253

Get Book

Researching Children′s Experience by Sheila Greene,Diane Hogan Pdf

`Strongly recommended as it provides a very useful overview of a range of methods, mainly textual, for exploring children′s experiences. These accounts are placed well in the broader conceptual frameworks concerning both methodologies and ethical considerations′ - Educational Review How should the researcher approach the sensitive subject of the child? What are the ethical issues involved in researching children′s experiences? In essays written by a collection of key, international authors, Researching Children′s Experience addresses these questions, and examines up-to-date methodological and conceptual approaches to researching children. This book is a practical, comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide for advanced students and researchers, exploring a range of studies, and the theoretical and ethical motivations behind them. The book is divided into three coherent sections: - Conceptual, methodological and ethical issues in researching children′s experiences. - Methods for conducting research with children. - The generation and analysis of text. Researching Children′s Experience provides examples of how researchers from a variety of social science perspectives have set about carrying out research into children′s experience. Useful to students embarking on a research project, and to experienced researchers wishing to explore new methods, Greene and Hogan′s book is an essential addition to anyone doing research on children. It will be especially useful to those in developmental psychology, education, nursing and other disciplines interested in studying children′s experience.

Author : Michael T. Bardo,Diana H. Fishbein,Richard Milich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441912688

Get Book

Inhibitory Control and Drug Abuse Prevention by Michael T. Bardo,Diana H. Fishbein,Richard Milich Pdf

The purpose of this book is to review our state of knowledge about the neurobehavioral and psychosocial processes involved in behavioral inhibitory processes and to provide an insight into how these basic research findings may be translated into the practice of drug abuse prevention interventions. Over the last decade, there has been a wealth of information indicating that substance use disorders do not simply reflect an exaggeration of reward seeking behavior, but that they also represent a dysfunction of behavioral inhibitory processes that are critical in exercising self-control. A number of studies have determined that individuals with substance use disorders have poor inhibitory control compared to non-abusing individuals. In addition, the fact that the adolescent period is often characterized by a lack of inhibitory control may be one important reason for the heightened vulnerability for the initiation of drug use during this time. Controlled experiments utilizing neuroscience techniques in laboratory animals or neuroimaging techniques in humans have revealed that individual differences in prefrontal cortical regions may underlie, at least in part, these differences in inhibitory control. Although a few excellent journal reviews have been published on the role of inhibitory deficits in drug abuse, there has been relatively little attention paid to the potential applications of this work for drug abuse prevention. The current book will provide both basic and applied researchers with an overview of this important health-relevant topic. Since translational research cuts across multiple disciplines and most readers are not familiar with all of these disciplines, the reading level will be geared to be accessible to graduate students, as well as to faculty and researchers in the field. The book will be organized around three general themes, encased within introductory and concluding chapters. The first theme will review basic neurobehavioral research findings on inhibition and drug abuse. Chapters in this theme will emphasize laboratory studies using human volunteers or laboratory animals that document the latest research implicating a relation between inhibition and drug abuse at both the neural and behavioral levels of analysis. The second theme will move the topic to at-risk populations that have impulse control problems, including children, adolescents and young adults. The third theme will concentrate on prevention science as it relates to inhibitory control. Chapters in this theme will be written by experts attempting to develop and improve prevention interventions by integrating evidence-based knowledge about inhibitory control processes. In all of the chapters, writers will be asked to speculate about innovative approaches that may be useful for the practice of prevention.

Author : Holly Barrett Waldron,Janet L. Brody,Michael S. Robbins,James F. Alexander
Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128065396

Get Book

Interventions For Addiction by Holly Barrett Waldron,Janet L. Brody,Michael S. Robbins,James F. Alexander Pdf

Author : Judith Brook,Barry Stimmel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317774280

Get Book

Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Adolescence by Judith Brook,Barry Stimmel Pdf

This timely volume explores the possible reasons that young people turn to drugs, the most effective methods to manage those who are afflicted, and ways to educate youth to prevent their initial drug involvement.

Author : Yifrah Kaminer,Ken C. Winters
Publisher : American Psychiatric Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1585623814

Get Book

Clinical Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment by Yifrah Kaminer,Ken C. Winters Pdf

Clinical Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment brings together extensive new research in the field of adolescent substance abuse to serve as a comprehensive resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, substance abuse specialists, and other clinicians, as well as residents and students of psychology. It provides the most recent information about adolescent substance abuse assessment, prevention and treatment. Special emphasis is given to different psychosocial and pharmacological interventions in addition to the treatment of various coexisting psychiatric disorders. This extremely timely and practical guide offers a review of most substances of abuse currently available, covers laboratory work for drug detection in youth, and discusses the legal boundaries of school-based assessment of substance abuse. Each of the 16 chapters in the manual provides thorough examination of each topic, succinct summaries, suggested readings, and referrals to relevant Web sites and other resources for further investigation. Case vignettes and visual aids such as tables and charts illustrate and reinforce key concepts. Readers will find this manual a valuable resource in furthering their understanding of adolescent substance abuse and increasing their effectiveness in providing treatment.

Author : Sandra L. Christenson,Amy L. Reschly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135892593

Get Book

Handbook of School-Family Partnerships by Sandra L. Christenson,Amy L. Reschly Pdf

Family and community involvement are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school-level achievement. This has led to an increase in policies, initiatives and goals designed to address family involvement in schools. Once recognized and implemented, such family-school partnerships can lead to the following benefits: enhanced communication and coordination between parents and educators; continuity in developmental goals and approaches across family and school contexts; shared ownership and commitment to educational goals; increased understanding of the complexities of child.