Evaluation and Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Decision Tree Method
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Vol. 16 (1-2) , 1-46
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00952999009001570
Abstract
A procedure for systematically evaluating and treating adolescents with known or suspected substance abuse is described. Integrating assessment with intervention affords the opportunity to comprehensively characterize the adolescent's problems and to quantitatively monitor treatment progress and outcome.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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