Discussion:
Adolescence and Substance Abuse
1. What population do you want to help? Children and Adolescents
2. What is the clinical area of concern (substance abuse) that you would like to help this population with? Please make sure that the clinical area of concern is something that can be measured by formal or other appraisal instruments or some other observable and measurable method. Make sure to integrate, cite, and reference at least one peer-reviewed journal article to support your clinical area of concern.
3. What programs exist that address this clinical area of concern? Provide examples of interventions used to help with this clinical area of concern such as cognitive behavioral therapy, person centered therapy, family therapy, et cetera. Make sure to integrate, cite, and reference at least one peer-reviewed journal article to support this section of your post.
4. Given the programs that exist and have been evaluated in addressing the clinical area of concern, what aspects of the clinical area of concern are not being addressed(Substance Abuse in the public school system)? In other words, how are the existing programs not really making a difference? What area still needs to be addressed? Look for the gap where the treatment or intervention has not been applied for your chosen population. Need journal article to support.
5. How do you propose to help address this unmet aspect(s) of the clinical area of concern? Provide an explanation of the treatment intervention/clinical program that you are proposing to use, or the variation or difference in the intervention/clinical program that you are proposing that will help. Be sure to integrate, cite, and reference at least one peer-reviewed journal article that supports your proposal. One example may be how your identified clinical intervention worked with a different, but similar, clinical area of concern.
Peer reviewed Journals or articles only.