DIAGNOSTIC STRATEGIES FOR TREATMENT OF DRUG ABUSE YOUTH

本次调查计划进行系统的诊断和治疗 对21岁或以下青少年药物滥用者的结果研究， “无毒”门诊治疗方案、住院治疗方案，以及 非住院方案，具体目标如下： (1)To开发一种新的有效和可靠的诊断工具（“青少年 药物滥用诊断”（ADAD）），这将有助于改善客户 诊断服务，用于评估客户的治疗需求， 治疗计划，并提高进行研究的潜力 与青少年药物滥用客户（研究#1）; (2)To制定一份指导和评分表， 该手册将通过以下方式启用并促进ADAD仪器的使用 青少年吸毒者项目中的临床和研究人员 （研究1）; (3)To测试这种新工具对预测结果的有用性 门诊治疗（研究#1）， (4)To制定一种方法，将青少年吸毒者与三个 治疗环境类型：门诊、住院和非医院 根据其问题的概况（对住房的需求）， 治疗）。

This investigation plans to conduct a systematic diagnostic and treatment outcome study of adolescent drug abuse clients, aged 21 years or less, in "drug-free" outpatient treatment programs, inpatient programs, and non-hospital residential programs, with the following specific aims: (1)To develop a new valid and reliable diagnostic instrument ("Adolescent Drug Abuse Diagnosis" (ADAD)) that will be useful for improving client diagnostic services, for evaluation of client treatment needs, for treatment planning, and to enhance the potential for conducting research with adolescent drug abuse clients (Study #1); (2)To develop for distribution to the field an instruction and scoring manual which will enable and facilitate use of the ADAD instrument by clinical and research personnel in programs for adolescent drug abusers (Study #1); (3)To test the usefulness of this new instrument for predicting outcome of outpatient treatment (Study #1), (4)To develop a method for matching adolescent drug abuse clients to three types of treatment environments: outpatient, inpatient, and non-hospital residential according to the profiles of their problems (needs for treatment).