1st Edition

Adolescent Substance Abuse A Guide to Prevention and Treatment

    An enlightening discussion of the major issues related to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance abuse. Information-packed chapters lend a new perspective to the field and suggest implications for practice in services for youth.

    Contents Introduction: Understanding Adolescent Substance Abuse
    • Substance Abuse and Social Deviance: A Youth Assessment Framework
    • Childhood: Setting the Stage for Addiction
    • Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior: Causes, Connections, and Contexts
    • Reducing Black Adolescents’ Drug Use: Family Revisited
    • Hispanic Adolescents and Substance Abuse: Issues for the 1980s
    • Psychotropic and General Drug Use by Mentally Retarded Persons: A Test of the Status Model of Drug Use
    • Conceptual and Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Adolescent Alcohol and Substance Misusers

    Biography

    Jerome Beker, Richard Isralowitz, Mark Singer