Addictions: Treating Addicted Teen Clients (TC)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Four Reasons Teenagers are Prone to Addiction; The "Feeling Disease"; The Seven Differences of Teen Addiction; Levels of Use; Four Tasks of Adolescents; Power Plays; Types of Enablers; Supporting the Parents of Addicted Teens; Helping Parents Stop Enabling; The Four C's of Confrontation; Three Essential Confrontation Skills; Preparing for Intervention; Reintegration; Creating a Supportive Household; Treatment for Adolescent Chemical Dependency; Substance Abuse Prevention & Intervention: The Counselor's Role with Teens; Are Refusal & Resistance Skills Programs for Children & Adolescents Effective?; Withdrawal & Dependency Symptoms Among Adolescents; Substance Abuse Prevalence & Prevention among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Questioning Adolescents; The Complexity of Substance Abuse & the Challenge of Counseling Adolescents; Substance Abuse in Schools; Preventing Substance Abuse Among Elementary School-Aged Children; The Need for Improved Assessment of Adolescent Substance Involvement; After-School Counseling for High-Risk Middle School Students; Substance Abuse Intervention with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Questioning Adolescents; Self-Guided Change for Substance-Abusing Delinquent Adolescents This course is also offered in an abbreviated 1hour format (TCAbb1)