Description
Topics addressed in Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families include:
- understanding the gap between research and practice in substance abuse counseling
- prevalence and patterns of illicit drug use among juvenile offenders
- the relationship between the reported substance abuse of African-American and Hispanic youth and their perceived attachments with their primary caregivers
- using a harm reduction approach to the evaluation of treatment outcomes
- using a nonconfrontational approach to substance abuse counseling when addressing client denial
- why contingency management interventions are underutilized, especially in community settings
- how to determine if and when Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Adapted Motivational Interviewing (AMI) are effective
- how to use nonabstinence-based prevention services in working with adolescents
- how to use and score the K6 scale to screen serious mental illnesses
- how to use Receiver Operating Characteristics analysis to evaluate rapid assessment instruments
