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.
Not exact matches
RRFT is an integrative, ecologically
informed, and exposure - based approach to addressing co-occurring symptoms of PTSD (and other mental health problems),
substance use problems, and other risk behaviors often experienced by trauma - exposed
adolescents.
Extensive research and consultations
informed the development of the current PRI model, a multi-component developmental - systemic approach to
adolescent substance abuse, where
substance use is conceptualized as a symptom of individual and family system challenges that have consequences for healthy development.
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).