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A 4 page research paper that summarizes and analyzes a study by Hyun, Kools and Kim (2004), which was designed to provide a model that would shed light on the recovery process from substance abuse and dependence for Korean adolescents. Their study identifies the stages for recovery and specifies specific interventions for these stages. This article is useful as the strategies outlined may be applicable to Korean-American adolescents suffering from substance abuse, as well as other adolescents. No additional sources cited.
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dependence for Korean adolescents. Their study identifies the stages for recovery and specifies specific interventions for these stages. This article is useful as the strategies outlined may be applicable to
Korean-American adolescents suffering from substance abuse, as well as other adolescents. A principal theme of this study is that the dramatic increase in substance abuse in Korea is directly
connected to the rise in industrialization and exposure to Western concepts along with modernization. Due to the fact that adolescence is a period of inner turmoil, these young people are
extremely vulnerable to stress and competition for academic achievement is a major source of stress in Korea. Mass media stimulates Korean teens to be curious about drugs and to turn
to drugs rather than developing healthy coping methods for relieving stress (Hyun, Kools and Kim, 2004). Following the recovery process with a sample group of Korean teens, the researchers
determined that this process consists of four stages: retracing, accepting, surrendering, and turning to change. In most cases, incarceration in the rehabilitation hospital was against their will, as parents sought
treatment on their behave. Many were angry and refused to accept their admission. Most resisted treatment and stated their intention to continue substance abuse (Hyun, Kools and Kim, 2004). However,
after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retracing their lives, the teens moved onto being cognitively able
to connect their current problems with their abuse of drugs. Their denial was gradually broken down into acceptance. From this stage, it was important that the adolescents see that controlling
their addiction on their own is problematic and doomed to failure and to accept help. The next step encompassed real change as the adolescents embraced alternatives to drugs and understood
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