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

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 har...

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Main Author: Schaefer, Dick (Author)
Other Authors: Espeland, Pamela, 1951- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Johnson Institute Books, 1987.
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Table of 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.