Prevention for Youth at Risk Explain the process of finding your article and how you determined it was peer-reviewed The process of finding relevant peer-reviewed articles concerning evidence-based approaches to prevention for youth at risk involv Continue Reading...
For some, there will be a denial and minimization of the substance habit as being inconsequential, purely recreational or extremely intermittent. This response is akin to the young adult asserting that there is no problem. For other homeless youths, Continue Reading...
Research that the authors report in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy -- a peer-reviewed journal -- shows that adolescents abusing substances cause "stress-related symptoms" in parents (Yuen, et al., 2011, p. 250). The stress Continue Reading...
Substance Abuse Treatment Analysis of David Ruffin Most people today probably recognize his signing voice from his hits such as "My Girl," but few may remember David Ruffin of The Temptations music group from the latter half of the 20th century. Lik Continue Reading...
Substance abuse is a significant problem for all Americans. Research has revealed increased risk factors including exposure to drugs among African-American males, making a race-specific intervention program necessary to ensure recovery success rates Continue Reading...
He has been called upon to train Child Protective Service personnel, Foster Grandparents, State Workforce Commission employees, and County Probation officers. Within the past 3 years, the coordinator has trained over 700 people. They also assist se Continue Reading...
There were also facilities that conducted both random tests and tests based on reasonable suspicion (Drug and Alcohol Treatment in Juvenile Correctional Facilities, 2002). In addition, of the facilities that responded to the survey 17% tested resid Continue Reading...
801). According to Green (2006), "Research on how gender influences substance use and substance-abuse-related problems has established clear differences between women and men in several important areas. Women typically consume less alcohol than men Continue Reading...
Substance Abuse In modern society, substance abuse refers to a maladaptive pattern of using a substance that is unnecessary for health. It is not limited to mood-altering or psycho-active drugs (marijuana, alcohol, etc.), but is defined as any subst Continue Reading...
' If a person does not disclose their drinking behavior if they seek outside help, they may be misdiagnosed as having an anxiety disorder. Mixing alcohol and medications for anxiety disorders can have lethal consequences, as well as prolonging a proc Continue Reading...
Treatment is also viewed as a tool to address an adolescent's use of one substance, whereas prevention programs address the risks of multiple substances (Sussman, 2011). Prevention programs that have provided some evidence of effectiveness include s Continue Reading...
Substance Abuse Introduction to the Characteristics and Extent of Alcohol, Tobacco or Other Drug Use. Addiction means physical dependence on a drug, with withdrawal symptoms when its use ceases, and in this sense, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocai Continue Reading...
Substance / Alcohol Abuse among the Elderly Substance/alcohol abuse among the elderly 60 years and older Alcohol and substance abuse among the elderly is a significant social problem, not only because people in this age group tend to have very perm Continue Reading...
Young People Misuse Substances The misuse of substances involves more than just taking illegal drugs. Youth can also get involved with prescription drugs (either theirs or someone else's), or they can focus on alcohol or other ways in which they ca Continue Reading...
Role of Drugs as Part of Youth Culture The use of drugs among the youth has become a normal part of dance and culture of young people. Generally, drugs have been regarded as a part of daily life, particularly among the youth to an extent that it has Continue Reading...
Part 1: Treatment Planning and Individual Treatment Assessment Process Assessing for substance abuse can be tricky, given the client’s potential for denial, their perception of social stigma related to substance abuse, and even the therapist&rs Continue Reading...
PowerPoint Slides Transcript Slide 1 (Title Slide) Substance Abuse in Elderly Population Slide 2 Overview When one thinks of substance abuse or drug addiction, the picture that is likely to come to mind is that of a young or middle-aged man with a ru Continue Reading...
Drugs and Alcohol Abuse The United States military faces considerable difficulty related to substance abuse amongst its personnel. It is critical to denote that its substance abuse issues pertain to both active personnel on duty, as well as to veter Continue Reading...
1 The determining factors and the relationship between substance abuse and addiction include time, the build-up of tolerance, the development of craving, and the experience of withdrawal so that the individual no longer wants to ever be without the d Continue Reading...
Counselor Trainee Resource List Rachel Faybyshev Foundations of MHC Mary Owens Resource 1: Name of the organization - Care Counseling Center Address, phone, fax, email address and website address. • Address - 214-216 West 116th Street, NY Continue Reading...
Substance Abuse Prevention Programs in the United States The menace of drug abuse among the most active population in the U.S. has been an issue that successive governments have struggled to contain, some to a significant success rate and yet there Continue Reading...
Adolescent Substance Abuse Substance abuse, commonly referred to as drug abuse and alcohol abuse, has recently gained popularity amid the youth of America. This has been confirmed by SAMHSA (2003) whose survey indicated that around 2.2 million teena Continue Reading...
Indeed, the lack of "recognition and protection" by schools in general contributes to the "critically high level of suicide" among this community of minority students (146). Surely alert, competent, contemporarily up-to-date school counselors under Continue Reading...
, Ellingstad, Timothy, and Brown, Sandra A. (2006). Adolescent Self-Selection of Service Formats: Implications for Secondary Interventions Targeting Alcohol Use. The American Journal on Addictions, Vol. 15, 58-66. The authors employed three format Continue Reading...
Reducing Substance Abuse Among College Freshman Nursing Motivational Interviewing as an Intervention for Substance Abuse Problems among College Freshman Motivational Interviewing as an Intervention for Substance Abuse Problems among College Freshm Continue Reading...
Interventions to Reduce Adolescent Substance Abuse The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the relevant literature to describe current government initiatives for addressing substance abuse by adolescents in the United States. An analysis Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Disorders There is a high correlation between youth with substance abuse problems and youth with mental illness. Often, the substance abuse is a means of self-medicating. There are a lot of potential underlying factors for this high como Continue Reading...
Help her to realize that having a child may interfere with her future career, but that many mothers have successful home and job lives. There are an infinite number of options, and a determined teenager can find a way to success. Do not skirt around Continue Reading...
It is not only addiction to abusing substances that may go hand in hand with ADHD, but also cigarette smoking. A study by Wilens and colleagues (2007) of the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit Continue Reading...
In 2005, Gallione, Hawke and Hennen conducted research demonstrating the principles of Social Learning Theory. They evaluated the treatment modalities in five different residential facilities situated in New Jersey. They noted some significant flaw Continue Reading...
His article does an excellent job of discussing in comprehensible terms the recent research which has addressed the current state of knowledge about the relationship between substance abuse amongst teens and mood disorders and provides a breakdown o Continue Reading...
IntroductionSubstance abuse among children and adolescents is a growing concern, with studies showing that alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis are the most commonly used substances among this age group. The Adverse Childhood Experiences study has shown a Continue Reading...
Co-Occurring Disorder and the Substance Disorder The concept of disorder in people has been a hard to grasp condition and psychiatrists often face various challenges in handling these patients since there is no single blueprint on how to handle the Continue Reading...
The presence of violence is one of the most dangerous behaviors associated with substance abuse particularly with alcoholism for the reason that it is a behavior that can cause significant injuries or fatality associated with substance abuse consequ Continue Reading...
Drugs and Kids Preventing Substance Abuse One environmental factor is an adult model of substance abuse in addition to a lack of clear family prohibition against it (Hawkins et al. 2004); One cultural risk factor is the collection of stresses in f Continue Reading...
Clinical Case Management Case management emerged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in an effort by professional social workers to address the broad-based social problems that followed the Industrial Revolution, including most especially Continue Reading...
Health Risks Across the Life Span: Impact of Nursing Intervention on Decreasing Substances Among Homeless Youth Statistical data shows that an estimated 1.2 million people from ages 11 to 19 live without any shelter. Usage of alcohol (mainly binge Continue Reading...
