Adolescent drug treatment, a family affair: a community day center approach.
This paper describes a day care program for treating youth drug abuse. Day care treatment is situated in the middle, between outpatient care and the full-time alternatives such as residential therapeutic communities. Day care is structured to treat youth drug abuse as a family problem and requires behavioral change in all family members. Some social work interventions aimed at effecting family changes are outlined and illustrated. Follow-up research indicates that this approach is a viable one in treating youth drug abuse.
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Department of Social Work Services, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11042.
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D000293:Adolescent; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000379:methods; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D012947:Social Work; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*