Substance Abuse Programs for Adolescents

Accordingly, the research problem proposed for study here is the evaluation of Sharma, Dillbeck and Dillbeck's (1994) Transcendental Meditation program. This program, containing individual and family components, was designed to assist adolescents with problems of alcohol and drug abuse. The fact that the program contains family-related elements and components makes it especially salient for substance abusing adolescents from divorced homes because the existing research indicates that family structure may be a contributor to the development and maintenance of substance abuse problems (e.g., Hoffman, 1995; Doherty & Needle, 1991; Runeson, 1990).

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his instrument will be collected from three groups: the therapist/counselor treating the teen, the teen's parents, and the teens themselves. The first draft of this instrument (all three versions) is presented in Table 1. As can be seen from examination of this table, the first draft contains only two key questions regarding outcome; it is quite likely that more questions will be added to the second draft. To make sure that the developed instrument is valid and reliable, a number of steps will be taken, all of which are recommended by Best (1991) for boosting the psychometric properties of researcher-designed questionnaires. First, the initial draft of the questionnaire will be submitted to a panel of experts in the field. These experts will be asked to review the first draft and make comments as to how the instrument might be re-drafted to boost its validity and reliability. These comments will then be incorporated into a second draft of the instrument. The second draft will then be administered to a small sample of students who have received treatment at the clinic as well as to their counselor/therapists and parents (N = 6) who will be Table 1 Treatment Outcome Data Sheet ____________________________________
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