Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Behavioral Approaches

Assignment 4.1 Treating Adolescent Substance Use Disorders

OBJECTIVES:

To provide an understanding of adolescent treatment behavioral approaches. Behavioral interventions help adolescents to actively participate in their recovery from drug abuse and addiction and enhance their ability to resist drug use. In such approaches, therapists may provide incentives to remain abstinent, modify attitudes and behaviors related to drug abuse, assist families in improving their communication and overall interactions, and increase life skills to handle stressful circumstances and deal with environmental cues that may trigger intense craving for drugs.

Step 1:

Read Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Research-Based Guide–Behavioral Approaches

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-adolescent-substance-use-disorder-treatment-research-based-guide/evidence-based-approaches-to-treating-adolescent-substance-use-disorders/behavioral-approaches

After you have chosen a behavioral approach please do some further research on the therapy that you prefer.

Step 2: 

Write a one page essay choosing from one of the listed behavioral approaches that you would most likely chose when working with the adolescent population:

• Group Therapy for Adolescents
• Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Contingency Management (CM)
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
• Twelve-Step Facilitation Therapy
  • How would you best use the behavioral approach that you chosen?
  • Why do you feel the behavioral approach that you chose would be more successful than the other behavioral approaches?
  • Do you feel that adolescents with Substance Use Disorders require different treatment than adults with Substance Use Disorders?

•  https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-adolescent-substance-use-disorder-treatment-research-based-guide/evidence-based-approaches-to-treating-adolescent-substance-use-disorders/behavioral-approaches