• Pharmacology
• Intervening with the ATOD Adolescent
• Dual Disorders: Alcohol, Other Drug and Mental Illness
• Substance Abuse Among Older Adults
• Proposal Development and Grant Writing
• Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence
• Brief Intervention/Therapies for Substance Abuse
• Enhancing Motivation for Change
• Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders
• Relapse Prevention
• Prevention Basics
• Prevention Principles for Scientifically Defensible Prevention Strategies
• Science-Based ATOD Abuse Prevention
• Prevention and Treatment Among Women
• Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth
• Substance Abuse Treatment with the Criminal Justice Offender

Treatment of Adolescents
With Substance Use Disorders

Course developed by Pamela Petersen-Baston, CAP, CAPP.

Perceived risk of harm from substance use is falling while the availability fo drugs is climbing. These trends are a major national problem, especially as the social and economic costs of adolescent substance use are becoming better understood. The onset of substance use is occurring at younger ages, resulting in more adolescents entering treatment for substance use disorders with greater developmental deficits and perhaps much greater neurological deficits than have been observed in the past. This course begins by defining the unique treatment needs of the adolescent and by providing a full description of the severity continuum.

topics covered

• Tailoring treatment to the adolescent's problem
  
  
• Important program characteristics (including staff recruitment and training, treatment components, treatment planning and client services)
  
  
• Using the 12-step program with youth, including modifications that are needed to address the developmental needs of the adolescent
  
  
• Information on therapeutic community as a form of treatment
  
  
• Using family therapy with adolescents and their families
  
  
• Possible distinctive treatment needs of adolescents with coexisting psychiatric conditions, involvement with the criminal justice system, physical health problems, nonhetersexual sexual orientation, and displaced living conditions.
  
  
• Legal and ethical issues related to treating the adolescent

CEUs: 8

Continuing Education Units available for:

• Substance Abuse Professionals
  Content Area:
  Service Coordination (7 CEUs)
  Documentation (1 CEU)
• Licensed Clinical Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Mental Health Counselors
• Nurses

Contact us at (850) 878-2196 for more information or email us at Carol Hyden at chyden@fadaa.org.