Treating Adolescent Substance Abuse: Understanding the Fundamental Elements
A practical, easy-to-follow guide to diagnosing and treating teenage adolescent substance abusers.  Packed with ideas, suggestions, and strategies, Ross details eight fundamental elements that make a treatment program successful.  He presents a sound rationale for conceptualizing the problem of chemical dependency, includes an easy-to-follow framework for addressing it, and lists specifically defined goals and objectives for confronting the addiction.Fifteen treatment strategies for enhancing awareness, one full chapter that outlines a model treatment program that's ready to implement, nineteen questions for critiquing a group session, a set of 42 criteria for addressing the outcome of a program, suggestions for conducting a comprehensive evaluation with eight possible scenarios that could result from the evaluation, and ideas for helping parents respond emotionally and behaviorally to the situation.Clinical Psychologists , Social Workers and other professionals working with teenage substance abusers.  A Longwood Professional Book.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.