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You don't have to reinvent the wheel--select and implement an
effective substance abuse program from this essential book This
essential book is the first ever published on exemplary models of
adolescent drug treatment. It delivers detailed descriptions of
exemplary drug treatment models and gives you the latest
information on substance use and its consequences to aid your work
with adolescents who use alcohol and drugs. The in-depth
examinations of treatment models you'll find in this book include
programs serving adolescent substance users from a wide range of
ethnic and cultural backgrounds (African Americans, Hispanics,
Whites, Native Americans, Russian Immigrants). With sections
covering outpatient, residential, family-oriented, and modified
therapeutic community (TC) programs, this book is a vital reference
for educators and students as well as practitioners. Adolescent
Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Exemplary Models
from a National Evaluation Study gives you thoughtful examinations
of: trends in adolescent substance use and treatment approaches
three exemplary outpatient treatment programs, including program
design, treatment issues, and client characteristics the
Multidimensional Family Therapy Approach (MDFT), a family-oriented
outpatient treatment model used to intervene with younger
adolescents a 30- to 60-day residential treatment program that is
based on a medical model which blends in treatment approaches from
the therapeutic community model the special treatment needs and
issues of substance-using Native American youths issues of gender
differences as they relate to drug use and trauma three different
modified therapeutic community treatment models and much more
Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States is an
invaluable source of information for anyone working with this
vulnerable population. Use it to choose and implement the program
that will work best for you and your clients
In Women and Substance Abuse: Gender Transparency you ll see what
can be done to aid women in some of the world s hardest hit
substance abuse hubs, including Rio De Janeiro, Brazil;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New Haven, Connecticut. Filled with
timely research and practical solutions, this volume shows you what
you can do to aid the tremendous and immediate need for specialized
interventions in the lives of women.Women and Substance Abuse
considers many of the variables in the lives of women who abuse
drugs--race, choice of drug, HIV risk, and drug treatment
history--and gives you line-by-line proof of the need for
custom-tailored harm reduction strategies for addicted women who
are and who aren t engaged in drug treatment therapy. In addition,
you ll see why frequent cocaine use, current physical and sexual
abuse, and concerns relating to children can alter the success of
therapies and treatments. Overall, this unique volume will broaden
your understanding of the subject by covering: gender differences
in risk for gonorrhea infection risk factors for women who trade
sex for drugs and money the role of physicians and prenatal care
providers of substance abusing women how drug treatment programs
can be more multifacted to include planning, prenatal care, and
parenting skills prison-based therapeutic communities long-term
residential treatment for women with children, pregnant women, and
women without childrenFor every unique woman with a drug problem,
there is a unique treatment. Women and Substance Abuse turns away
from the lost cause of blanket treatments and takes you into the
world s slums and inner-city ghettoes, where the faces of addiction
are as diverse as the women who bear its debilitating burdens. You
ll see women s drug addiction for what it is--a montage of
suffering and pain that only individual and specialized care can
cure.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel--select and implement an
effective substance abuse program from this essential book This
essential book is the first ever published on exemplary models of
adolescent drug treatment. It delivers detailed descriptions of
exemplary drug treatment models and gives you the latest
information on substance use and its consequences to aid your work
with adolescents who use alcohol and drugs. The in-depth
examinations of treatment models you'll find in this book include
programs serving adolescent substance users from a wide range of
ethnic and cultural backgrounds (African Americans, Hispanics,
Whites, Native Americans, Russian Immigrants). With sections
covering outpatient, residential, family-oriented, and modified
therapeutic community (TC) programs, this book is a vital reference
for educators and students as well as practitioners. Adolescent
Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Exemplary Models
from a National Evaluation Study gives you thoughtful examinations
of: trends in adolescent substance use and treatment approaches
three exemplary outpatient treatment programs, including program
design, treatment issues, and client characteristics the
Multidimensional Family Therapy Approach (MDFT), a family-oriented
outpatient treatment model used to intervene with younger
adolescents a 30- to 60-day residential treatment program that is
based on a medical model which blends in treatment approaches from
the therapeutic community model the special treatment needs and
issues of substance-using Native American youths issues of gender
differences as they relate to drug use and trauma three different
modified therapeutic community treatment models and much more
Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States is an
invaluable source of information for anyone working with this
vulnerable population. Use it to choose and implement the program
that will work best for you and your clients
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