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Family-Based Intervention Program for Parents of Substance-Abusing Youth and Adolescents.

2016

Theuse of drugs among adolescents/youth often results in a high degree of distress for the familymembers who live with them. This in turn can lead to a deterioration of mental (psychological) health, hindering any attempt to successfully cope with the situation. The goal of our research was to study the effect of the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) program on parents of adolescents/young adult drug users. Study volunteers (𝑛�� = 50) were parents fromValencia (Spain) that were divided into two groups. The experimental group (𝑛�� = 25) was made up of parents whose sons and daughters exhibited problems with drug use and the constructed noncausal baseline group (𝑛�� = 25)…