Youth Living in Balance: A Curriculum for Adolescents

超出所提供的空间。青少年滥用药物现已被认为是一个全国性的公共卫生问题（Stevens & Mortal 2003）。2002年全国药物使用和健康调查报告说，青少年（2至17岁）的药物依赖或滥用率为9%，年轻人（18至25岁）的药物依赖或滥用率为22%（2003年SAMHSA）。2002年，230万需要成瘾治疗的青少年中只有18.6万人（8.2%）得到了治疗，估计有210万青少年得不到帮助。尽管需要服务的青少年人数不断增加，但对他们具体的成瘾治疗需求重视不够。总的来说，该领域缺乏以研究为基础的、可以复制、评估、传播和容易整合到现有青少年治疗方案的青少年药物滥用的手动方法（Dennis et al . 2003）。由于这种不足，一小部分青少年治疗中心使用为青少年设计的方法（2002年SAMHSA）。相反，大多数药物滥用治疗中心对他们的青少年群体使用成人模式，产生的结果充其量是好坏参半。青少年治疗项目必须了解青少年发展和药物滥用之间的关系，并使用针对这些因素的治疗方法，而不是使用经验验证的成人模型的向下延伸（CSAT 2002; Kaminer 2001）。针对这一情况，丹雅国际公司建议开发和评估“平衡中的青年生活”（Youth LIB）——一个创新的、全面的心理教育项目，供咨询师用于治疗与酒精或其他物质有关的青少年问题。拟议的产品将包括一份引导者指南和一盘放松和引导图像的录音带/CD。引导者的指南将包括对项目和技能培训的介绍，动机增强技术，以及24次会议的咨询师和参与者材料。青少年LIB将为辅导员和其他专业人员（治疗师，心理学家，案例管理人员）设计，用于在不同的治疗环境中为药物滥用服务提供青少年。青少年药物滥用治疗和治疗人员将参与拟定和制作方案。第一阶段将专注于产品开发。第二阶段将集中于最终确定产品和评估青年LIB计划。网站性能 ======================================== 节结束 ===========================================

EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. Substance abuse among youth is now recognized as a national public health concern (Stevens & Mortal 2003). The 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported the rate of substance dependence or abuse as 9 percent for youth (agesl2 to 17) and 22 percent for young adults (ages 18 to 25) (SAMHSA 2003). In 2002, only 186,000 (8.2%) of the 2.3 million youth who needed addiction treatment actually received it, leaving an estimated 2.1 million adolescents without assistance. Despite the rising number of youth needing services, insufficient attention has been paid to their specific addiction treatment needs. Overall, the field lacks research-based, manualized approaches to adolescent substance abuse that can be replicated, evaluated, disseminated and easily integrated into existing youth treatment programs (Dennis et al 2003). Due to this shortfall, a fraction of adolescent treatment centers use approaches designed for adolescents (SAMHSA 2002). Instead, the majority of substance abuse treatment centers use adult models with their youth populations, generating poor to mixed outcome results at best. It is imperative for adolescent treatment programs to understand the relationship between adolescent development and substance abuse and to use treatment approaches that address these factors, rather than using downward extensions of empirically-validated adult models (CSAT 2002; Kaminer 2001). In response to this Danya International, Inc. proposes to develop and evaluate Youth Living in Balance (Youth LIB) - an innovative, comprehensive psychoeducational program for counselors to use with adolescents with problems related to alcohol or other substances. The proposed product will consist of a facilitator' s guide and a relaxation and guided imagery audiotape/CD. The facilitator's guide will include an introduction to the program and skills training, motivational enhancement techniques, and counselor and participant materials for 24 sessions. Youth LIB will be designed for counselors and other professionals (therapists, psychologists, case managers) to use with adolescents presenting for substance abuse services in diverse treatment settings. Youth in substance abuse treatment and treatment staff will be involved in the development and production of the proposed program. Phase I will focus on product development. Phase II will focus on finalizing the products and evaluating the Youth LIB program. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================