Choices & consequences : what to do when a teenager uses alcohol/drugs : a step-by-step system that really works / by Dick Schaefer ; edited by Pamela Espeland.

Choices and consequences

Minneapolis : Johnson Institute Books, 1987.

x, 155 pages ; 20 cm

This item was donated as part of the DrugScope archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/DRS https://wellcomecollection.org/works/psspw62x

Copy 1. Donor: DrugScope.

1. "You sat on the burner, baby, you sit on the blisters" and other basic principles of intervention -- Part I. Learning about teenage chemical dependence -- 2. Why teenagers use alcohol/drugs -- 3. The addiction process -- 4. The feeling disease -- 5. How chemical dependence in teenagers differs from chemical dependence in adults -- 6. From use to addiction: an overview of teenage involvement with alcohol/drugs -- 7. How to tell if a teenager is using and how bad it really is -- 8. The tasks of adolescence -- 9. The adolescent delusional system -- Part II. Intervening with teenagers in trouble with alcohol/drugs -- 10. Disengagement: preparing for intervention -- 11. The professional's role in disengagement -- 12. Confrontation: doing intervention -- 13. The professional's role in confrontation -- 14. Reintegration: following up intervention.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-141) and index.