Adolescent substance use: Developmental considerations
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Use of brief interventions for drug abusing teenagers within a middle and high school setting
Abstract: Promising and encouraging results have been recently reported on the use of briefer interventions for adolescent drug abusers. Because middle- and high-school-based drug abuse intervention programs have grown in popularity over the past several decades, the use of brief interventions (BIs) in school settings merits consideration.
Differences among substance abusing Latino, Anglo, and African-American juvenile offenders in predictors of recidivism and treatment outcome
Abstract: Alcohol and drug use is prevalent among juvenile offenders and many of the risk factors that predict delinquent behavior also predict adolescent drug use. This study examined the impact of self-reported risk factors on treatment outcomes and recidivism among Latino, Anglo, and African American juvenile offenders.
Correlates of treatment retention among multi-ethnic youth with substance use problems: Initial examination of ethnic group differences
Abstract: Aims: To explore (1) the influence of pretreatment and treatment factors on treatment retention among a multi-ethnic sample of adolescents and (2) the potential differential influence of pretreatment and treatment factors on treatment retention within each ethnic subgroup.
School-based group treatment for adolescent substance abuse
Abstract: The extant empirical literature indicates that treatment for adolescent alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse (a) can succeed for adolescents with AOD use problems, (b) produces treatment outcomes comparable to those found among adults with AOD use problems, (c) yields varied improvement across different domains of functioning
Guided Self-Change: A brief motivational intervention for cannabis users
Abstract: Studies of treated cannabis abusers (Ellingstad et al ., 2002; Sobell et al ., 1990; Stephens et al ., 2000) and those who have recovered without treatment (L.C. Sobell et al ., 2000) are few in number compared with studies of other drug abusers.
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