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12‐Step Facilitation reduces damage from substance use in youths
Publication year - 2017
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.30240
Subject(s) - facilitation , intervention (counseling) , psychology , substance use , population , test (biology) , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , medicine , paleontology , environmental health , neuroscience , biology
A pilot study helps to fill a gap in research on 12‐Step‐oriented approaches in treatment, finding that 12‐Step Facilitation (TSF) helped to reduce consequences related to substance use in young people ages 14 to 21. A significant aspect of the study, beyond being the first to test TSF in an adolescent population, is that the intervention overall compared favorably against a motivational enhancement therapy (MET)/cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach that researchers referred to in their paper as “gold‐standard” outpatient treatment for youths.