Adolescent Substance Abuse

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Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment, Issues in Children’s and Families‘ Lives

ISBN: 3030080544
ISBN 13: 9783030080549
Herausgeber: Carl G Leukefeld/Thomas P Gullotta
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxii, 397 S., 2 s/w Illustr., 6 farbige Illustr., 397 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.01.2019
Auflage: 2/2018
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

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. Schoolbased preventions and the evolution of evidencebased strategies. The role of adolescent selfhelp in substance abuse interventions. Communitybased 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.

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