BRIEF THERAPY PLAN

Brief Therapy Plan

MY NAME: Taher Syed

SCHOOL NAME:Grand Canyon University

DATE:

Substance Abuse Therapy

Prevention Programming

The two major psychosocial approaches that have been adopted by schools are the social influences approach and the more comprehensive personal and social skills enhancement approach (Ruff et al., 2010). Parent- or family-targeted prevention programs include those that offer early childhood education, social support for parents, parenting skills training, parent-child communication skills, and resource acquisition instruction or networking. Examples of evidence-based family programming include the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) and Family Matters (FM). The Strengthening Families Program is a family skills-training program designed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for problem behaviors in high-risk children, primarily ages 6-12 years (Hesse, 2010). The program emphasizes improving family relationships, parenting skills, and youth's social and life skills. Family Matters is a home-based program designed to prevent tobacco and alcohol use in children 12-14 years old (McCollum & Trepper, 2001). The program is delivered through booklets mailed to the home and follow-up telephone calls to parents by health educators. The booklets contain readings and activities designed to get families to consider general family characteristics and tobacco and alcohol use attitudes.

Mass media-targeted programs involve programs or public service announcements with novel, fast, and unconventional messages (e.g., the American Legacy Foundation Truth Campaign), use of the internet, and interactive CDs (e.g., video games and videos on sites such as YouTube). The contents of mass media campaigns that appear to have exerted the strongest effects on drug misuse have been those that depict a dramatic true consequence of drug use, take an activism stance, assert for greater autonomy experienced by non-drug use lifestyles, make appeals to sensation-seeking youth through fast-paced material with exciting activities being depicted, or attempt to correct misperceptions of drug use norms (Ruff et al., 2010). For example, Hesse (2010) utilized sensation-seeking as a risk factor for drug misuse in the development of a marijuana prevention mass media campaign. Five professionally produced 30-second television spots that involved material likely to appeal to youth high in sensation-seeking (e.g., fast-paced and novel) were produced and aired extensively.

The Individual

The individual that I chose is the sixteen year drug addict, Dylan. Dylan started smoking marijuana at the age of 11, and since then he has not stopped. Despite going through therapy and meetings with his probation officer, Dylan just cannot stop taking drugs. The reason I chose Dylan situation is because at this age, teenagers gets more attracted towards substances abuse, and it is highly likely that a teen would get involved in any substance abuse (McCollum & Trepper, 2001).

For some, addiction is a time of course. Rather than talk about structure, we must look at things in a more dynamic, note the type of relationship that the individual has with the surrounding world and with the product. After a number of years, we no longer distinguish between what are the consequences of the product and the person of the addict.

Care Program

The addict will seek a psychiatric hospitalization with a focus on ...