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Added parent training no better than contingency management for teen cannabis addiction
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30059
Subject(s) - cannabis , contingency management , intervention (counseling) , addiction , psychiatry , psychological intervention , parent training , psychology , child and adolescent psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine
Comprehensive parent training doesn't provide any additional treatment benefits for teens with cannabis use disorders, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry . For the study, “Clinic‐ and Home‐Based Contingency Management Plus Parent Training for Adolescent Cannabis Use Disorders,” researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of Texas compared interventions for treatment of adolescent cannabis use disorders, focusing on one intervention with parent training and one without.