FAMILY AND GROUP THERAPIES FOR ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL ABUSE

针对青少年酒精滥用的家庭和团体治疗

• 批准号: 6496200
• 负责人: MORRIS D STANTON
• 金额: $ 3.06万
• 依托单位: MORTON CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-30 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6496200
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse; alcoholism /alcohol abuse therapy; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; early experience; family therapy; group therapy; human subject; human therapy evaluation; longitudinal human study; outcomes research

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: Despite well-founded societal concerns over use of illicit drugs by youth, alcohol use has persisted for decades as the number one adolescent substance abuse problem in the U.S. Further, research has shown that the earlier the onset of alcohol use, the more likely a person is to develop alcohol dependence later during the life course. Consequently, the need is clear for interventions that will arrest this process at the earliest point possible. Hence, interventions that mobilize a youth's social systems to help that young person deal with the problem, i.e., the family and peer systems, would make sense from a number of standpoints. The first objective of the research proposed here is to compare the effectiveness of two different modalities. One of these is a state-of-the-art family therapy approach, Transitional Family Therapy (TFT), which integrates nuclear family, here-and-now interventions, with multigenerational issues. The other is a standardized version of the established modality of Adolescent Group Therapy (AGT), which includes both psycoeducational and therapeutic components. Both approaches have been developed expressly to target adolescent alcohol problems. Participants will be 140 males and females, ages 13-17, with diagnoses of alcohol abuse or dependence. Following random assignment to conditions, treatment in either condition will take four months in addition to two months of aftercare (six months total). Outcomes will be compared at treatment termination, one year post-treatment, and two years post-treatment. The second objective is to establish a standard as to the outcomes that can be achieved with AGT for this population. Even though group therapy is probably the most widely used treatment modality for such problems, there presently appear to be no clinical trails defining its parameters and expectation with adolescent alcohol abusers.

申请人摘要：尽管有充分的社会关注使用 虽然青年人使用非法药物，但酒精使用持续了几十年， 美国青少年药物滥用问题。此外，研究表明， 表明，越早开始饮酒，一个人越有可能 在生命的后期发展成酒精依赖。 因此，委员会认为， 显然，需要采取干预措施， 最快的时间点。 因此，动员青年的干预措施 帮助青年人解决问题的社会制度，即，的 家庭和同伴系统，从许多角度来看都是有意义的。 这里提出的研究的第一个目标是比较 两种不同模式的有效性。 其中一个是 最先进的家庭治疗方法，过渡家庭治疗（TFT）， 它将核心家庭，此时此地的干预措施， 多代问题。 另一个是标准化版本的 青少年团体治疗（AGT），其中包括 心理教育和治疗成分。 这两种方法都是 专门针对青少年酗酒问题而开发的。 参与者 将有140名男性和女性，年龄在13-17岁之间， 或依赖。 在随机分配条件后， 这两种情况都需要四个月的时间， 后续护理（共6个月）。 将在治疗时比较结局 终止、治疗后一年和治疗后两年。 第二个目标是建立一个关于结果的标准， 在这个人群中，AGT可以实现。 尽管团体治疗 可能是最广泛使用的治疗方式，这些问题，有 目前似乎没有临床试验定义其参数， 对青少年酗酒者的期望。