Integrative Risk Reduction and Treatment for Teen Substance Use Problems and PTSD



Status:Completed
Conditions:Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:13 - 18
Updated:8/5/2018
Start Date:November 1, 2012
End Date:July 12, 2018

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Adolescents receiving RRFT and their caregivers will report significantly fewer substance use
problems (quantity of use, frequency of use, and abuse symptoms) during treatment and
follow-up than control adolescents who receive Treatment as Usual (TAU). Adolescents
receiving RRFT and their caregivers will report improvement in empirically-demonstrated risk
and protective factors for substance use and abuse at the individual level (e.g., coping) and
at each level of an adolescent's ecology (e.g., increased number of positive family
activities, reduced family conflict, reduced number of peers who use drugs, improved school
attendance, increased involvement in pro-social community activities) during treatment and
follow-up than control adolescents who receive TAU. Adolescents receiving RRFT will
experience less PTSD symptoms (per youth and caregiver reports) during treatment and
follow-up than control adolescents who receive TAU. Adolescents receiving RRFT will report
engaging in fewer risky sexual behaviors (e.g., increased condom use, fewer partners) during
treatment and follow-up than control adolescents who receive TAU. Changes during treatment in
family relations (familial cohesiveness and conflict, satisfaction with caregiver-youth
relationship) and parenting practices (monitoring) will mediate changes in substance use.
Changes during treatment in emotional reactivity will mediate changes in PTSD symptoms.

See above.

Inclusion Criteria:

- 1) 13-18 years old;

- 2) Presenting to LCC/HH for evaluation or treatment;

- 3) Report having experienced IPV in their lifetime, including: CSA, defined as forced
or unwanted: (a) vaginal or anal penetration by an object, finger, or penis; (b) oral
sex; (c) touching of the respondent's breasts or genitalia; or (d) respondents'
touching of another person's genitalia; CPA, defined as having been (a) attacked or
threatened with a gun, knife, or some other weapon; (b) attacked by another person
with perceived intent to kill or seriously injure; (c) beaten and injured (i.e., "hurt
pretty badly") by another person; (d) spanked so forcefully that it resulted in
sustained welts or bruises or required medical care; or (e) cut, burned, or tied up by
a caregiver as a punitive consequence; Exposure to Domestic Violence; and being victim
of or bearing witness to Community Violence.

- 4) Have a memory of the incident(s);

- 5) Five or more DSM-IV PTSD symptoms;

- 6) Substance use, defined as alcohol or illicit drug use in the past 90 days per
self-report and/or urine drug screen or breathalyzer.

Exclusion Criteria:

- 1) Previously identified as having a Pervasive Developmental Disability or Moderate to
Severe Mental Retardation;

- 2) Actively suicidal or homicidal;

- 3) Reports active psychotic disorder
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