1st Edition
Adolescent Substance Abuse A Guide to Prevention and Treatment
132 Pages
by
Routledge
123 Pages
by
Routledge
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An enlightening discussion of the major issues related to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance abuse. Information-packed chapters lend a new perspective to the field and suggest implications for practice in services for youth.
Contents
Introduction: Understanding Adolescent Substance Abuse
- Substance Abuse and Social Deviance: A Youth Assessment Framework
- Childhood: Setting the Stage for Addiction
- Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior: Causes, Connections, and Contexts
- Reducing Black Adolescents’ Drug Use: Family Revisited
- Hispanic Adolescents and Substance Abuse: Issues for the 1980s
- Psychotropic and General Drug Use by Mentally Retarded Persons: A Test of the Status Model of Drug Use
- Conceptual and Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Adolescent Alcohol and Substance Misusers
Biography
Jerome Beker, Richard Isralowitz, Mark Singer
