Juvenile Rehabilitation



Juvenile Rehabilitation

Methods and Techniques

The juvenile rehabilitation program can provide Tony the help he needs to beat his alcohol and marijuana addiction. Tony should be provided with particular techniques and methods for a specified time period that can function as a sort of reset button for Tony, allowing him to develop new behavior and truly think about his addictions and craft a new plan for living. The juvenile rehabilitation must provide Tony a significant amount of medical supervision as well as counseling, which holds an immense importance to Tony who needs to struggle with addiction (Teen Treatment Center, 2012). The medications will help Tony to ease withdrawal symptoms, and to help treat stress, depression, or anxiety. Secondly, group counseling sessions are really important, as Tony can learn from other recovering addicts and will find out more regarding impacts of addiction on teens (Teen Treatment Center, 2012).

Tony's rehabilitation program must include the recovery techniques like Alcoholic Anonymous and Narcotic Anonymous meetings. Where, these recovery programs involve the meeting of men and women who share their expectations, strengths, and experiences with each other regarding solving their own issues and also supporting others to recover from substance abuse (www.aa.org; Narcotics Anonymous, 2012). The treatment program can also incorporate cognitive-behavioral therapy that will seek to support Tony identify, avoid, and cope with the conditions in which he is most likely to use alcohol and marijuana (NIH, 2009). This therapy is based on the theory that in progressing towards maladaptive behavioral patterns like alcohol usage or other substance abuse, process of learning plays a critical role (www.drugabuse.gov). Lastly, Tony's treatment program should also include multidimensional family therapy that is developed for teens with substance abuse issue as well as their families addressing a wide range of impacts on their substance abuse patterns and is developed for improving overall family functioning. As Tony's addiction is due to his parents' habit of taking in marijuana and alcohol drinks, it is really essential to make his family as a part of treatment.

Tony's Family and House for Living

I believe that Tony's family should be the part of treatment as without treating them we cannot treat Tony effectively. When Tony will be back to his home in future, he will face similar situation again and there is high probability that he would again start substance abuse. Therefore, it is really essential to treat whole family in order ...