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A 4 page report on Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs by Dick Schaefer. No additional sources cited.
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teaching them productive ways to manage their lives without turning to drugs, many young people still do turn to drugs for a number of reasons. And, for the most part
it is generally agreed that while children will often experiment with drugs, they can become a serious problem. Anyone in society who is concerned with the welfare of young adults
and children know that drugs and alcohol can prove incredibly dangerous and destructive. Dick Schaefers book Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs is a book
that deals with these concerns. It is a book designed to help parents and teachers and anyone interested in helping youth, deal with young people who are involved in drugs
and/or alcohol. The following paper presents a report on the book by Schaefer. Choices and Consequences by Schaefer As mentioned, Schaefers book is essentially designed to help parents
and anyone involved with young people understand the signs of problems, and understand how to deal with the problems as they help the children. In the first chapter a very
important foundation is laid when the author notes that "You are not responsible for others, but to them. This is the first basic principle of intervention" (Schaefer, 1998; 5). He
notes that too many people feel they are responsible for a youths behavior but they are not and in being responsible "to" them the individual is helping them rather than
simply trying to ease the problem. As noted, this is the major foundation of the book and lays the groundwork for understanding the rest of the work, and how the
rest of the work, in terms of intervention, can prove successful. The first chapter is titled "Learning About Teenage Chemical Dependence" and it is broken up into many different sections.
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