The Family Context of Adolescent Drug Use

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. Contributors thoroughly examine practical, effective interventions that are positive, instructional and preventive instead of remedial.

List of contents

Introduction

• I. Adolescent Drug Use: A Family Problem
• The Institutionalization of Drug Use in America: Hazardous Adolescence, Challenging Parenthood
• Family Theory and Research on Adolescent Drug Use: A Review
• II. Family Styles, Stages, and Varieties
• Contrasting Family Patterns of Adolescent Drug Users and Nonusers
• Developmental Stages in Drug Use: Changing Family Involvements
• Ethnic Family Differences in Adolescent Substance Use
• Personality, Family, and Ecological Influences on Adolescent Drug Use: A Developmental Analysis
• Families With Attention Deficit Disordered Children and Others at Risk
• III. Family Interventions
• Empirical Guidelines for a Family Intervention for Adolescent Drug Use
• Managing Adolescent Behaviors at School: Implications for Families
• Peer Relationships, Social Competence, and Substance Abuse Prevention: Implications for the Family

About the author

Robert H. Coombs Professor of Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine is trained as a sociologist (doctorate), counseling psychologist (Masters), family therapist (California licensed) and group psychotherapist (nationally certified). He has published 14 books and more than 175 other manuscripts. Professor Coombs teaches courses on addiction at UCLA where he received the Award for Excellence in Education from the School of Medicine and the Distinguished Faculty Educator Award from the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert H Coombs (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.1988
• EAN: 9780866568289
• ISBN: 978-0-86656-828-9
• No. of pages: 274
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology, Coping with drug & alcohol abuse, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Addiction & therapy, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems