["Body and soul and friendships destroyed". Behavior therapy of a 14-year-old adolescent with alcohol dependence syndrome].
OBJECTIVE
About 250,000 children and adolescents in Germany are dependent upon alcohol or at severe risk of developing an alcohol disorder. Whereas adults who abuse alcohol benefit from a variety of therapy manuals and numerous institutions offering long-term disorder-specific care, the situation with regard to adolescent patients needs to be upgraded.


METHODS
We present the behavioral therapy of an alcohol-dependent 14-year-old boy, focusing on a version of Petry's therapy manual for alcoholism (1996) that has been adapted for the treatment of adolescents. The efficacy of worksheets as a supplement to the usual behavior therapy, or social or family interventions in the treatment of alcohol-dependent adolescents is discussed.
Becker
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Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters am Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Postfach 12 21 20, 68072 Mannheim. kbecker@zi-mannheim.de
Fuhrmann
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Holtmann
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Schmidt
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D000184:Acting Out; D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D002670:Child, Abandoned / Q000523:psychology; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D019372:Orphanages; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology