Adolescent Substance Abuse - A Guide to Prevention and Treatment

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Jerome Beker, Richard Isralowitz, Mark Singer

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Beker, Beker Jerome, Richard Isralowitz, Richard E. Isralowitz, Mark Singer, Singer Mark
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780866561853
• ISBN: 978-0-86656-185-3
• No. of pages: 132
• Weight: 317 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / General, MEDICAL / Pharmacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Adolescence, Addiction & therapy, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy