Intervention for Drug Abusing Adolescents

Intervention is the action or process of intervening. Drug intervention is a process that helps a drug addict recognize

 the extent of their problem. Individuals who are addicted to drugs or alcohol usually do not know their addiction is out of control. There has been new research that say adolescence with an aud should undergo brief intervention for a higher success rate. Most people who need an intervention for their abuse do not know they do. They will fight until something is brought up that for force them to go receive help. Brief intervention only last at most 5 sessions. This new method is especially god for younger teens in because going to rehab for longer amount of time is unproductive for them they need to be in school and not fall behind. Brief intervention is few but very intense. The treatment is very costly but on the other hand very much efficient. There has not been a significant amount of studies on brief intervention for adolescences but the 20 that have been conducted they seem to all have positive outcomes. One study had 284 participants between ages 13-17 in metro area. The participants were taken from a pool of students in school who had substance abuse problems. The brief intervention sessions took about an hour. The first sessions focused on what triggers the problem and the consequences. The second session was then held at least 7-10 later focusing on progress. The third session was for the parent. After the session the researcher would then follow up collect data to see if the adolescent actually benefited from the intervention session. Research concluded that with this new methods many adolescence benefit from brief intervention.

Abstract

  Winters, K. C., Lee, S., Botzet, A., Fahnhorst, T., & Nicholson, A. (2014). One-year outcomes and mediators of a brief intervention for drug abusing adolescents. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28(2), 464-474. doi:10.1037/a0035041