Choices & consequences : what to do when a teenager uses alcohol/drugs : a step-by-step system that really works

Book 1987

Written for parents, teachers, family doctors, mental health professionals, school guidance counsellors, social workers, juvenile justice workers, clergy, and anyone else who cares about teenagers, it describes a step-by-step process called intervention that you can use to stop a teenager's harmful involvement with chemicals.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Alcoholism Prevention

Drug addiction

Drug addiction Prevention

Teenagers Alcohol use

Teenagers Drug use

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ISBN:

9780935908428
0935908420

Description:

x, 155 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Choices and consequences

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 140-141

Contents:

1."You sat on the burner, baby, you sit on the blisters" and other basic principles of intervention
Part I. Learning about teenage chemical dependence
2. Why teenagers use alcohol/drugs
3. The addiction process
4. The feeling disease
5. How chemical dependence in teenagers differs from chemical dependence in adults
6. From use to addiction: an overview of teenage involvement with alcohol/drugs
7. How to tell if a teenager is using and how bad it really is
8. The tasks of adolescence
9. The adolescent delusional system
Part II. Intervening with teenagers in trouble with alcohol/drugs
10. Disengagement: preparing for intervention
11. The professional's role in disengagement
12. Confrontation: doing intervention
13. The professional's role in confrontation
14. Reintegration: following up intervention

LCCN:

87022717 //r88

Control Number:

27618

Other Authors:

Espeland, Pamela, 1951- editor

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