Youth Living In Balance (LIB)

描述（由申请人提供）：这个第二阶段小企业创新研究（SBIR）提案的目的是继续发展和评估青年平衡生活（Youth LIB），这是一个创新的，全面的心理教育计划，供辅导员使用，年龄在13到18岁之间，与酒精或其他物质有关的问题，以及他们的家庭。2002年，估计230万需要成瘾治疗的青少年中只有8.2%接受了治疗，使大约210万青少年得不到帮助（SAMHSA, 2003）。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, 2002; Riggs, 2003）。Youth LIB将通过将基于研究的方法整合到一个可复制的、手动的心理教育计划中来实现这一目标，该计划可以很容易地整合到现有的治疗中心，并将专门满足13至18岁青少年及其家庭的发展需求。这个适合发展和文化敏感的项目将包含一个引导者的指南，其中将包括以下部分：(1)如何使用该项目的介绍和概述；(2)咨询师、参与者和家庭的12个核心客户会议的材料，包括动机参与技术，以提高青少年治疗和采用健康行为的动机；(3)辅导员，参与者，和家庭材料的八个补充会议。在第一阶段，Danya制定了引导者指南的全部内容和12个核心治疗环节，并与专业利益相关者进行了咨询小组内容审查和可行性研究。在第二阶段，我们的目标是将建议的更改纳入青年LIB；开发并将家庭内容纳入核心心理教育课程；制定八个补充会议的内容；进行青少年自由课程的结果评估，以确定课程的效果；并根据试点评估结果最终确定课程设置。鉴于缺乏针对有药物使用问题的青少年及其家庭的以研究为基础的心理教育课程，Youth LIB应该通过改善对这些青少年的服务和结果来促进公共卫生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal is to continue the development and evaluation of Youth Living in Balance (Youth LIB), an innovative, comprehensive psychoeducational program for counselors to use with adolescents ages 13 to 18 with problems related to alcohol or other substances, and their families. In 2002, only 8.2 percent of the estimated 2.3 million youth who needed addiction treatment received it, leaving an estimated 2.1 million adolescents without assistance (SAMHSA, 2003). 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, 2002; Riggs, 2003). Youth LIB will serve this purpose by integrating research-based approaches into a replicable, manualized psychoeducational program that can be easily integrated into existing treatment centers and will specifically meet the developmental needs of adolescents ages 13 to 18 and their families. This developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive program will contain a facilitator's guide that will include the following sections: (1) an introduction and overview of how to use the program; (2) counselor, participant, and family materials for 12 core client sessions that include motivational engagement techniques to increase adolescent motivation for treatment and adoption of healthy behaviors; and (3) counselor, participant, and family materials for eight supplemental sessions. In Phase I, Danya developed the full content for the facilitator's guide and 12 core treatment sessions, and conducted an Advisory Panel content review and feasibility study with professional stakeholders. In Phase II, we aim to incorporate recommended changes to Youth LIB; develop and incorporate family content into the core psychoeducational sessions; develop content for eight supplemental sessions; conduct an outcome evaluation of Youth LIB to determine curriculum efficacy; and finalize the curriculum based on the results of the pilot evaluation. Given the shortage of research-based psychoeducational curricula for adolescents with substance use problems and their families, Youth LIB should contribute to public health by improving services and outcomes for these youth.