Brief Intervention for Alcohol Abusing Students

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究旨在评估一种简短的认知行为治疗干预对报告轻度或中度酒精滥用的青少年的疗效。此次干预的对象是270名中学生和高中生。这项以学校为基础的倡议采用了明尼苏达大学研究人员和圣保罗公立学校之间的合作努力。该项目涉及最近PA“青少年酒精使用障碍的治疗”中感兴趣的几个研究领域，其中包括开发更有效的青少年认知和行为治疗干预措施，以及通过澄清和确定治疗结果的中介和调节因子，通过行为技术提高青少年对治疗的参与和保留。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study sets out to evaluate the efficacy of a brief, cognitive behavioral therapeutic intervention for adolescents reporting mild or moderate alcohol abuse. The intervention targets 270 middle and high school students. This school-based initiative employs a collaborative effort between University of Minnesota researchers and the St. Paul Public Schools. This project addresses several research areas of interest in the recent PA, "Treatment of Adolescents with Alcohol Use Disorders," which include developing more effective adolescent cognitive and behavioral-based treatment interventions, and improving engagement and retention of adolescents in treatment through behavioral techniques by clarifying and identifying mediators and moderators of treatment outcome. A randomized clinical trial will be employed to evaluate the efficacy of a 2-session, adolescent focused, cognitive-behavioral intervention vs. a 2-session adolescent plus a 1-session parent intervention vs. a control, assessment-only condition. The therapeutic approach to be utilized in this study is theoretically based in Cognitive therapy, Coping Skills therapy, and motivational interviewing. Specifically, this intervention aims to reduce post-treatment alcohol use behaviors and enhance cognitions and coping skills. It is apotheosized that the two intervention groups will reveal superior outcome compared to the control group, and that receiving the intervention including the parent component will reveal superior post-treatment behaviors compared to the adolescent-only intervention group. Several mediators and moderators of intervention effects will be examined.