title: Substance abuse in adolescent mothers: strategies for diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
abstract: Adolescent drug addiction and alcohol abuse are on the rise in this country. Teenagers of all races, socioeconomic groups and both genders have become avid experimenters with a full spectrum of substances, including alcohol, marijuana, stimulants, cocaine and hallucinogens. A diagnosis of addiction requires familiarity with the normative trends of adolescent behavior, as well as deviations from these trends. Moreover, an adolescent mother with a drug addiction problem confronts the additional burden of fostering adaptive developmental patterns in her infant. Treatment techniques such as previewing, which empowers through the representation and enactment of future outcomes, have helped addicted teenage mothers relinquish drug use and adopt more mature caregiving behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescent Outpatient Department, Cornell University Medical College, White Plains, New York 10605.
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Trad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D016578:Crack Cocaine; D005183:Failure to Thrive / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology; D006208:Halfway Houses; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D011613:Psychotherapy; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*
chemical_list: D016578:Crack Cocaine