Youth Living In Balance (LIB)

描述(由申请人提供)：本第二阶段小型企业创新研究(SBIR)提案的目的是继续开发和评估青年平衡生活(青年LIB)，这是一个创新的、全面的心理教育计划，适用于13至18岁有酒精或其他物质相关问题的青少年及其家庭。2002年，在估计需要戒毒的230万青年中，只有8.2%的人得到了治疗，估计有210万青少年得不到帮助(SAMHSA，2003年)。总体而言，该领域缺乏基于研究的、可复制、评估、传播和轻松整合到现有青少年治疗计划中的青少年药物滥用的手动方法(Dennis，2002；Riggs，2003)。青年图书馆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达到这一目的，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。这一适合发展和文化敏感的计划将包含一份辅导员指南，其中将包括以下部分：(1)如何使用该计划的介绍和概述；(2)12个核心客户会议的顾问、参与者和家庭材料，其中包括激励参与技巧，以增加青少年治疗和采用健康行为的动机；以及(3)八个补充会议的顾问、参与者和家庭材料。在第一阶段，丹亚制定了主持人指南和12次核心治疗会议的全部内容，并与专业利益攸关方进行了咨询小组内容审查和可行性研究。在第二阶段，我们的目标是把建议的改变纳入青少年图书馆；发展家庭内容，并把家庭内容纳入核心心理教育课程；制订八个补充课程的内容；为青少年图书馆进行成果评估，以确定课程成效；以及根据试验评估的结果，为课程定稿。鉴于缺乏针对有药物使用问题的青少年及其家庭的研究性心理教育课程，青年解放组织应通过改善对这些青少年的服务和成果来促进公共卫生。

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.