The authors draw from their experience with challenging youth and research
on adolescent substance use to combine a strength perspective with a harm - reduction approach to substance abuse.
The engagement of family members
in adolescent substance use treatment is vital for adolescent treatment completion and positive outcomes.
The purpose of this study is to review existing measures of family engagement, and to assess their conceptual coverage and utility
for adolescent substance use providers.
Methods and analysis The aim of the systematic review is to determine whether universal interventions focused on enhancing the resilience of adolescents are effective in
reducing adolescent substance use.
We are working to ensure that revenue from the sale of recreational marijuana goes to support evidence based and evidence
informed adolescent substance use prevention and education programs and services.
This grant includes a total of six adolescent substance abuse agencies, and aims to utilize a new treatment model in an effort to
reduce adolescent substance use.
Supportive parenting practices including autonomy granting and non-parental factors including adolescents» connections to their communities are significantly associated
with adolescent substance use outcomes; however, few longitudinal studies have considered both factors concurrently in nationally representative samples.
Variable - and person - centered approaches to the analysis of
early adolescent substance use: Linking peer, family, and intervention effects with developmental trajectories
«Our critical review on the limited existing treatment mechanism studies,» explained co-author Dr. Jessica Black, «found that «common» processes, such as positive social support, rather than a particular treatment modality, account for positive
adolescent substance use outcomes.»
This review assessed the effectiveness of parent training programs at reducing
adolescent substance use by participant gender, age, and race / ethnicity.
Indeed, greater intra-individual fluctuations in negative affect, conceptualized as dysregulated mood, predict increased risk for
adolescent substance use at the daily level [31] and also predict growth in drug use over time [32], as well as more significant symptoms of impairment [33].
Subica and his colleague, Li - Tzy Wu, a professor at Duke University Medical Center, took on the project in part because national estimates of Pacific Islander, American Indian, and
multiracial adolescent substance use and suicidality are scarce, presumably due to their small population sizes.
Parents may also play a role, as many previous research studies have found that parental R - rated movie restriction is associated with lower rates of adolescent substance use [57]--[61], presumably as a result of decreased exposure.
Recurrent adolescent substance use contributes to personal distress, poor school performance, short and long term health problems, relationship difficulties, and involvement in antisocial activities.
The developmental systemic frame for
conceptualizing adolescent substance use is based in part on the works of Drs. John McKinnon and John Santa, clinicians and researchers in the United States who are encouraging the leaders of American treatment programs to reflect on the assumptions that inform their definitions of successful treatment outcomes (McKinnon 2008 and 2011; Santa 2009).
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of The Parent Project, among parents of at - risk youth in the areas of general child management, family involvement, negative parent — child affective quality, substance use rules communication, and parental self - efficacy (PSE) in the ability to
affect adolescent substance use.
A series of studies will map the communications landscape and develop an evidence - based strategy for explaining
why adolescent substance use matters to society, how it works, and what we can do to promote better outcomes.
Through its research, CeASAR is developing evidence - based strategies to help pediatricians and other health care providers
identify adolescent substance use at its onset and intervene before serious harm results.
Externalizing symptoms robustly
predict adolescent substance use (SU); however, findings regarding internalizing symptoms have been mixed, suggesting that there may be important moderators of the relationship between internalizing problems and SU.
THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY RELIGIOSITY ON
ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USE ACCORDING TO RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE pp. 821 - 836 (16) Authors: Merrill, Ray M.; Folsom, Jeffrey A.; Christopherson, Susan S.
Specifically,
adolescent substance use increased the risk of verbal aggression in youth whereas parent substance use predicted youth - initiated physical aggression (Pagani et al. 2004).