Reviews
"This text does an excellent job of situating substance use assessment and treatment in a developmental framework. Each chapter is richly referenced and features easy-to-read tables that highlight developmentally appropriate tools and strategies. I have found this to be a good text for use in training graduate-level students in adolescent mental health and substance abuse counseling. It is also a useful resource for practicing clinicians who may be new to working with adolescent clients and their families."--Nancy A. Piotrowski, PhD, Harold Abel School of Psychology, Capella University "Researchers and practitioners looking for better ways to study, prevent, and treat youth alcohol and substance abuse will find this volume invaluable. It presents cutting-edge research on brief interventions for health care, behavioral health, school, and community settings. It also provides fresh perspectives on how emerging transdisciplinary research paradigms and communication technologies can be used to improve the appeal, reach, and impact of treatments designed for adolescents." --C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, Senior Scientist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "We finally have a book that recognizes the important differences between adolescent and adult substance abuse. Filling an important need, this is perhaps the best available work on understanding and intervening in the hazardous use of alcohol and other drugs by adolescents. The book is based on solid science and loaded with clinical insight. It is a 'must' read for clinicians and researchers in the field and an excellent background text for all who treat adolescents." --David C. Lewis, MD, Professor of Medicine and Community Health, Donald G. Millar Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University " This book covers its subject like no other in the field. With clarity, breadth, and depth, it illuminates the development of problems among teens, the social forces that surround them, and the reality of difficult clinical encounters. Many of the chapters in this volume amount to landmark reviews of their topics. The authors have provided a sourcebook that will be invaluable not just for students, but also for clinicians and researchers. To accomplish this with such sympathy toward the predicament of so many teens is a real achievement." --Stephen Rollnick, PhD., Department of General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, United Kingdom, "An excellent book in all respects. It is very readable (though not a quick read) and shows careful, even meticulous editing. All mental health professionals who work with adolescents and their families will find it of great value."--American Journal of Psychiatry, Given the solid grounding of the book's underlying principles, it offers great promise for engaging diverse groups of young peopleas a researcher I found it a valuable resource. The detailed 'how to' of conducting the interventions described will also appeal to clinicians in a variety of contexts., "Given the solid grounding of the book's underlying principles, it offers great promise for engaging diverse groups of young people--as a researcher I found it a valuable resource. The detailed 'how to' of conducting the interventions described will also appeal to clinicians in a variety of contexts."--Addiction, An excellent book in all respects. It is very readable (though not a quick read) and shows careful, even meticulous editing. All mental health professionals who work with adolescents and their families will find it of great value., 'Given the solid grounding of the book's underlying principles, it offers great promise for engaging diverse groups of young people - as a researcher I found it a valuable resource. The detailed 'how to' of conducting the interventions described will also appeal to clinicians in a variety of contexts.'-Addiction 'This book covers its subject like no other in the field. With clarity, breadth, and depth, it illuminates the development of problems among teens, the social forces that surround them, and the reality of difficult clinical encounters.'-Stephen Rollnick, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK, "...an excellent introduction to alternative approaches to address and deal with adolescent substance abuse....This is an excellent book for both researchers and practitioners concerned with adolescent substance use and abuse....here is a book that seems to take a realistic look at substance use. Instead of adamantly calling for immediate zero tolerance, which has been found to have very little impact on lasting self-motivated behavioral change, the authors who contributed to this book advocate a human touch, a dose of real life and, of course, more research."--Journal of Child and Family Studies "As a policy maker and instructor in an alcohol and drug studies department, I found this book to be an authoritative short course in current research and practice concerning adolescent development, brief intervention theory/practice, and substance abuse prevention and treatment. As the father of a 13-year-old, I also found it to be helpful in improving my understanding the hows, whys and what ifs of teen alcohol and drug use/abuse."--The Prevention Researcher Supplemental Resource Issue "...a book that thoughtfully introduces approaches to the problem of substance abuse in adolescents....This is an excellent book in all respects. It is a very readable (though not a quick read) and shows careful, even meticulous editing. All mental health professionals who work with adolescents and their families will find it of great value."--American Journal of Psychiatry "For those looking for a carefully laid-out approach to dealing with substance abuse in teens, with a depth and breadth of coverage that will allow the reader to come away with a clarity of understanding that other similar texts fail to provide, this is the book to read."--Science Books & Films "Adolescents, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse: Reaching Teens Through Brief Interventions is an equal boon to the new professional struggling with college drinking, as well as to the more seasoned worker who will appreciate the expertise and insight found in every chapter. With depth and clarity, this book seriously tackles the unique issues confronting college students who have been identified as abusing substances. In our opinion, this is perhaps the best source currently available for those seeking to understand and intervene at this crucial juncture of adolescence and adulthood."--Journal of American College Health "This thorough book is a combination of theoretical and more practically orientated chapters....It is refreshing to see this book focus on motivation, demonstrating that innovative approaches applied at ¿teachable moments' can reach and engage young people to meaningful discussion and consideration of their substance use, which may have a significant impact on their subsequent levels of harm if not their use itself....The practical chapters provide rich ideas on the ways in which brief interventions can complement existing approaches in a variety of settings and with numerous target groups....Given the solid grounding of the book's underlying principles, it offers great promise for engaging diverse groups of young people--as a researcher I found it a valuable resource. The detailed ¿how to' of conducting the interventions described will also appeal to clinicians in a variety of contexts."--Addiction "The book's principle strengths are its manual-like chapters on interviewing that can serve as a guide to therapists who need to immerse themselves in this field in a hurry."--Psychotherapy Networker
Table of Content
Introduction, Peter M. Monti, Suzanne M. Colby, and Tracy A. O'Leary I. Background and Context: Theory, Developmental, and Measurement Considerations 1. Developmental Matters: Taking the Long View on Substance Abuse Etiology and Intervention during Adolescence, John Schulenberg, Jennifer L. Maggs, Kenneth J. Steinman, and Robert A. Zucker 2. The Harm Reduction Approach to the Secondary Prevention of Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults: Considerations across a Developmental Spectrum, Elizabeth T. Miller, Aaron P. Turner, and G. Alan Marlatt 3. Assessing Adolescent Substance Use Problems and Other Areas of Functioning: State of the Art, Ken C. Winters 4. Personality and Learning Factors Combine to Create Risk for Adolescent Problem Drinking: A Model and Suggestions for Intervention, Gregory T. Smith and Kristen G. Anderson II. Empirical Illustrations Linked to Part I/Clinical Applications and Brief Interventions 5. Motivational Enhancement for Alcohol-Involved Adolescents, Peter M. Monti, Nancy P. Barnett, Tracy A. O'Leary, and Suzanne M. Colby 6. Alcohol Skills Training for College Students, Elizabeth T. Miller, Jason R. Kilmer, Eleanor L. Kim, Kenneth R. Weingardt, and G. Alan Marlatt 7. Integrative Behavioral and Family Therapy for Adolescent Substance Abuse, Holly Barrett Waldron, Janet L. Brody, and Natasha Slesnick 8. Motivational Interviewing and the Prevention of HIV among Adolescents, Larry K. Brown and Kevin J. Lourie 9. Toward Brief Interventions for Adolescents with Substance Abuse and Comorbid Psychiatric Problems, Mark G. Myers, Sandra A. Brown, Susan Tate, Ana Abrantes, and Kristin Tomlinson 10. New Frontiers: Using the Internet to Engage Teens in Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, Harvey Skinner, Oonagh Maley, Louise Smith, Shawn Chirrey, and Meg Morrison III. Future Directions 11. Transdisciplinary Research to Improve Brief Interventions for Addictive Behaviors, David B. Abrams and Richard R. Clayton
