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Description: All of our courses are approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors, the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification, Florida Board of Nursing and National Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors. This course on Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Abuse Issues meets license renewal continuing education requirements for many licensed health professionals and is taught using text, narrated PowerPoint, video and mp3 audio. All course materials and reference materials are available free online. This TIP aims to help treatment providers design and deliver better services to adolescent clients with substance use disorders and gives guidelines for treatment programs on designing and delivering effective services to adolescent clients. The clients addressed in the TIP included, among others, young people involved with the juvenile and criminal justice systems. In addition to defining the treatment needs of adolescents and providing a full description of the use of the severity continuum, three common types of treatment for adolescents today are covered: 12-Step-based treatment, treatment in the adolescent therapeutic community, and family therapy. TIP 32 details the scope and complexity of the problem; covers factors considered in making treatment decisions; details the features of successful programs; introduce and describe the treatment approaches used in 12-Step-based treatment, therapeutic communities, and family therapy; discusses adolescents with distinctive treatment needs, such as youths involved in the juvenile justice system, homeless and runaway youth, and youth with coexisting disorders; and describes the legal and ethical issues that relate to diagnosis and treatment of adolescents.

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