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Treatment of Adolescents With Substance Use Disorders

Substance use among 12 to 17 year old youth rose 11.4% during 1997. This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) provides treatment providers assistance in designing and delivering better services to adolescent clients with substance use disorders. Treatment interventions need to be tailored to the youth based on a continuum of six points -- abstinence, use, abuse, abuse/dependence, recovery, and secondary abstinence. Contents of this TIP include: general program characteristics; 12-step-based programs; therapeutic communities; family therapy; youths with distinctive treatment needs like juvenile offenders, homeless youth, homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered youth, and juveniles with co-occurring disordered; and legal and ethical issues like consent to treatment, confidentiality, duty to warn, and child abuse or neglect. Accession Number: 015468

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