Motivation of Adolescent Drug Abusers for Help and Treatment

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of the adolescent drug abuser's stated degree of motivation for treatment to treatment outcome, separately for clients admitted to inpatient treatment and for clients admitted to outpatient treatment. For both treatment groups, a significant, but only moderate, degree of association was found between stated degree of "importance of getting help and counseling" for drug and alcohol problems at admission, and the reduction of such problems at follow-up. The ratigns of importance of getting help for some types of life problems other than substance use/abuse problems also predicted, to a significant degree, a reduction in substance use/abuse at follow-up; but these types of problems were different for inpatients than for outpatients. An unexpected finding was that inpatients who rated getting help for employment as relatively more important for them, were fuond to reduce their substance use/abuse to a significantly lesser degree at follow-up.

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