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。干预对象是270名初中和高中学生。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中感兴趣的几个研究领域，“青少年酒精使用障碍的治疗”，其中包括制定更有效的青少年认知和行为为基础的治疗干预措施，并通过澄清和确定治疗结果的调解人和调解人，通过行为技术提高青少年在治疗中的参与和保留。 将采用一项随机临床试验来评价2次、以青少年为重点的认知行为干预与2次青少年加1次父母干预与对照、仅评估条件的疗效。本研究所采用的治疗方法以认知疗法、应对技巧疗法和动机访谈为理论基础。具体而言，这种干预旨在减少治疗后的饮酒行为，提高认知和应对技能。两个干预组与对照组相比将显示出上级结果，并且接受包括父母成分的干预将显示出与仅接受治疗的干预组相比的上级治疗后行为。几个调解人和调解人的干预效果将进行审查。

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.