Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Enhancing Juvenile Drug Court Outcomes With Evidence-Based Practices
Brief Summary: Juvenile drug courts were developed in response to a perceived need to intervene more effectively with youth with substance abuse problems. Close collaboration between the court and substance abuse treatment provider is a defining component of the drug court model and is critical to helping youth achieve positive outcomes. Despite the proliferation of juvenile drug courts in recent years, however, evaluation of their capacity to reduce offender substance use and criminal activity has lagged. Moreover, the Institute of Medicine (IOM, 1998) and leading experts (McLellan, Carise, \& Kleber, 2003) have presented a bleak picture of the nation's capacity to meet the treatment needs of substance abusing individuals. Although community-based programs provide the backbone of substance abuse treatment in the nation, their capabilities have not kept up with major scientific advances in the development and validation of evidence-based substance abuse interventions.

Building on our research findings and experience regarding juvenile drug court outcomes as well as the transport of evidence-based practices to community treatment settings, the purpose of this study is to develop and test a relatively flexible and low cost strategy for enhancing the outcomes of juvenile drug courts by integrating components of evidence-based treatments into existing substance abuse services.

Specifically, this project aims to:

Aim 1: Adapt existing intervention and training protocols from evidence-based practices (i.e., Contingency Management for adolescent substance abuse; family engagement strategies from evidence-based treatments of juvenile offenders) for integration into juvenile drug court sites.

Aim 2: Conduct a study to examine youth (e.g., substance use and criminal behavior) and system level (e.g., intervention adherence, feasibility, retention and completion rates, consumer satisfaction, cost estimates) effects of implementing the intervention protocols in juvenile drug courts.

Aim 3: Revise the intervention and training protocols in preparation for a Stage II study if findings are supportive.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Juvenile Drug Court-involved youth
* Fluency in English

Exclusion Criteria:

* None
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Teens and parents of any gender, ethnicity/race, or socioeconomic status.
* Teens 14 to 16 years of age who are freshmen and sophomores taking a health class at one of the participating high schools.
* Teens who assent to participation.
* Teens with a custodial parent who consents for themselves and their teen's participation in the study.
* Teens who can speak and read in English (educational instruction in Arizona High Schools is conducted in English)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Teens who are under age 14 will be excluded because:

  * They are not likely to be enrolled in high school, and
  * They are unlikely to have sufficient cognitive development to benefit from the proposed intervention
* Teens who are over age 16 will be excluded for two key reasons:

  * We believe that the cognitive development of and social expectations for older teens requires a more complex and flexible intervention than that proposed, and
  * Teens need to be available for 12 month follow-up sessions (our pilot studies indicated that this becomes less likely once teens are old enough to leave/graduate from high school, emancipate from parents, and/or leave home).
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* secondary school student
* scoring one standard deviation above the school mean on one of 4 personality dimensions.
* Able to provide consent from parent/guardian for participation in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* None
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* All young people between the ages of 14 and 17 who were in the detention centers at which recruitment took place.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age less than 14 or non-English speaking

Answer: A