Learn what prevention and recovery programs work What role can schools play in the full continuum of care for substance use, abuse, and addiction? Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults is a landmark work that addresses this issue by providing interventions, prevention strategies, identification and assessment skills, treatment options, and recovery approaches. Respected authorities and pioneers in the field present case studies, descriptive research of high school programs, evaluations of college programs, data on the extent of substance abuse and dependence among students, and transcriptions of actual twelve-step meetings involving adolescents and young adults. This one source provides a unique look at the “authentic voices” of students and staff that attend, teach in, and run high school and college programs, bringing a balance of academic, professional, and student perspectives. Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults comprehensively discusses possible referral sources, new programs and concepts to adopt in high school or college communities, and the latest epidemiology data, research, and evaluation of school-based programs. The book also offers insightful material from the adolescents and young adults whose lives have been changed by these programs, has figures and tables to clearly present research, and is extensively referenced. Topics discussed in Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults include: * approaching recovery support as a systemic issue
* existing and emerging treatments for adolescent substance use
* choosing the most effective treatment approach
* research into the effectiveness of recovery high schools
* first person accounts from teachers and counselors who work in and administer recovery high schools
* a unique program evaluation of a collegiate recovery community
* and much more! Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults is a valuable resource for counselors, social workers, school principals, program directors in colleges, alcohol and drug prevention specialists, student assistance professionals, researchers, policymakers, college student health workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapists, nurses, teachers, and guidance counselors. Contents: Section I: Introduction 1. Rationale for Including Recovery as Part of the Educational Agenda Andrew J. Finch 2. Authentic Voices: Stories from Recovery School Students Andrew J. Finch Section II: How it Was and HowWe Got Here 3. Twelve Step Meeting—Step One Recovery School Students 4. Schools as a Collection of Groups and Communities Seth Harkins and Jeffrey D. Roth 5. Adolescent Substance-use Treatment: Service Delivery, Research on Effectiveness, and Emerging Treatment Alternatives Keith C. Russell 6. Recovery Support Meetings for Youths: Considerations When Referring Young People to 12-Step and Alternative Groups Lora L. Passetti and William L. White Section III: WhereWe Are Now: Recovery in High Schools 7. Twelve Step Meeting—Step Two Recovery School Students 8. Recovery High Schools: A Descriptive Study of School Programs and Students D. Paul Moberg and Andrew J. Finch 9. Restorative Justice Angela Wilcox 10. A Secondary School Cooperative: Recovery at Solace Academy, Chaska, Minnesota Monique Bourgeois 11. The Insight Program: A Dream Realized Traci G. Bowermaster Section IV: WhereWe Are Now: Recovery in Colleges 12. Achieving Systems-Based Sustained Recovery: A Comprehensive Model for Collegiate Recovery Communities Kitty S. Harris, Amanda K. Baker, Thomas G. Kimball, and Sterling T. Shumway 13. The Need for a Continuum of Care: The Rutgers Comprehensive Model Lisa Laitman and Linda C. Lederman 14. An Exploratory Assessment of a College Substance Abuse Recovery Program: Augsburg College’s StepUP Program Andria M. Botzet, Ken Winters, and Tamara Fahnhorst 15. Reflections on Chemical Dependency in a College Setting and Its Intersection with Secondary School Programs Bruce Donovan 16. Twelve Step Meeting—Step Twelve Recovery School Students About the Editors: Jeffrey D. Roth, M.D. is an addiction psychiatrist and group psychotherapist in private practice. He is a fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He has been a practicing group psychotherapist for 25 years. He has presented workshops on group psychotherapy to diverse professional audiences, including group therapists, addictions treatment professionals, psychoanalysts, employee assistance professionals, attorneys and judges. He has served as director, associate director and consultant in numerous group relations conferences sponsored by the A. K. Rice Institute. Andrew Finch currently holds an appointment as Assistant Professor of the Practice of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. He is also the School Counseling Coordinator for the Human Development Counseling program. He was a co-founder of the Association of Recovery Schools and from 1997-2006 worked for Community High School, a recovery school in Nashville. |
