This practice-based guide gives readers a comprehensive overview of the many issues related to adolescent substance use. The book illustrates the basic etiology and epidemiology of addiction, as well as the specific concerns surrounding prevention, assessment, intervention, and recovery when
working with youths. The author makes a conscious effort to address topics central to the lives of youths and adolescents that are often overlooked in more general substance use books. This includes considerations of specific youth populations, and the influence of different youth environments from
family and high school to college campuses. The book also provides a rare look at the long-term recovery process with information about community-based systems of care like alternative peer groups, and recovery mentorship programs.
Holleran Steiker focuses on the lived experiences of
adolescents. Theoretical frameworks and recent research findings are presented, but always within the context of working directly with youths and their families. She ultimately brings together personal, professional, and research perspectives to produce an honest and empirically sound volume that
will appeal to both students and practitioners.
Preface
Section I Conceptualization of Adolescence, Substance Use, Addiction, and Theory
1. Overview of Substance Misuse
2. Substance Misuse Implications for Children and Adolescents
3. Substance Misuse Models and Theories
Section II Prevention and the Family
4. Substance
Misuse Prevention
5. Family and Parental Interventions and Attitudes
Section III Empirically Supported Screening and Assessment
6. Youth and Adolescent Substance Misuse Screening, Assessment, and Diagnosis
Section IV Evidence-Based Treatment Interventions
7. Different
Approaches to Evidence-Based Treatment
8. Support Groups, Twelve-Step, and Other Paths to Recovery
Section V Current Issues
9. Young People in Recovery-A New Life
10. Substance Abusing Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
11. Current Issues, Policies, and Future
Directions
References
Epilogue
Index
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Lori Holleran Steiker (MSW, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Arizona State University) is associate professor in the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin. She has over a decade of experience working with youth and families of those with addictions, and is a co-founder of
Austin's first recovery high school as well as the liaison to the University of Texas at Austin Center for Students in Recovery. She is the recipient of multiple honors including the 2015 Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Distinguished Recent Contributions in Social Work Education Award.
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