Telephone Coaching of Family Members of Veterans with Substance Abuse Problems

 描述（由申请人提供）： 该项目将开发和试点测试一种增强的电话“辅导”干预，以帮助关心伊拉克或阿富汗战争退伍军人的家庭成员，他们需要寻求药物滥用问题的治疗。这种基于电话的辅导干预是基于目前在VA中使用的现有辅导策略，该策略帮助家庭成员与退伍军人谈论他们寻求护理的决定，并帮助退伍军人在退伍军人愿意获得帮助时找到正确的治疗方案。这一强化战略基于一种面对面的治疗方法，该方法得到了充分的研究支持，但将以教育形式在网站上介绍。电话辅导将与使用此基于网络的程序的家庭成员合作，帮助他们以个性化的方式将课程应用于他们与退伍军人的关系，并为该家庭成员提供支持。该项目将是一个更大项目的第一步，该项目旨在测试这种增强型教练干预策略是否优于目前使用的策略。这些方法将解决我们最新退伍军人的家庭成员支持者的一个重要的重返社会问题-如何帮助退伍军人在他们的家庭作出决定，寻求药物滥用问题的照顾。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will develop and pilot test an enhanced, telephone "coaching" intervention to help family members concerned about a Veteran of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan who needs to seek treatment for a substance abuse problem. This telephone-based coaching intervention is based on an existing coaching strategy currently in use in VA that helps family members talk to a Veteran about their decisions to seek care and helps the Veteran find the right treatment program when this Veteran becomes willing to get help. This enhanced strategy is based on a face-to-face treatment method that has received ample research support, but will be presented in an educational format on a website. The telephone coaching will work with the family member who uses this web-based program, helping them apply the lessons in an individualized way to their own relationship with the Veteran, and also provides support to this family member. This project will be a first step in a larger project meant to test whether this enhanced coaching intervention strategy is better than those currently in use. These methods will address an important reintegration concern of family member supporters of our newest Veterans-how to help the Veteran in their family to make decisions to seek care for a substance abuse problem.