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This 5 page paper reports five journal articles that discuss the effectiveness of behavior therapy with adolescents using drugs. Behavior therapy, contingency management and family cognitive behavior therapy. Statistical data, when provided in the articles, is included in the essay. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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more important to know which types of therapeutic interventions are more successful in helping adolescents stop using drugs. More often than not, adolescent drug abusers have other psychiatric disorders
and behavioral problems (Weinberg et al, 1998). Various treatment interventions have been used with this population, including family therapy and cognitive behavior therapy (Weinberg et al, 1998; Elliott et al,
2005; Carroll and Onken, 2005). One particular model of family therapy shown to be successful is the structural-strategic family therapy (SSFT) model (Weinberg et al, 1998). This approach involves all
family members, which has been shown to improve parent-adolescent relationships (Weinberg et al, 1998). Another approach that has shown promise is the cognitive-behavioral model that includes rehearsal and social control
contracting (Weinberg et al, 1998; Carroll and Onken, 2005; Elliott et al, 2005). In fact, behavior therapy is promoted as being one of the most successful intervention treatments for adolescents
using drugs (Elliott et al, 2005). So much attention was given to behavior therapy in treating substance abusers in the early 1990s, that "the National Institute on Drug Abuse
began to offer comprehensive support for a broader range of scientific activity in behavioral treatment development" (Carroll and Onken, 2005, p. 1452). Citing Azrin et al, Elliott and colleagues (2005)
reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-recording between sessions, review of self-recordings and assignment records, and extensive praise for progress" (p.
1). Behavior therapy has been shown to be effective in reducing the degree of drug use among young people (Elliott et al, 2005). In one study, adolescent drug
users who participated in "behavior therapy for 12 months achieve a mean of 8.9 drug-free months compared with 0.6 in the nonintervention group" (p. 1). A side-note is that adolescents
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