| Description | A guide providing information and evidence to support the development of services for young people experiencing problems due to their own problematic drugs and/or substance misuse. |
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| Website Publication Date | January 31, 2003 |
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Effective Interventions Unit &Partnership Drugs Initiative Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland
SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH PROBLEMATIC DRUG MISUSE:
A GUIDE TO PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
METHODS
CHAPTER 1: WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
Age range
Risk and protective factors
National picture
Assessing local need
CHAPTER 2: YOUNG PEOPLE'S NEEDS AND RIGHTS
How do the needs of young people differ from those of adults?
What are the rights of children and young people?
Involving parents / carers
CHAPTER 3: ACCESSING SERVICES: WHERE, WHEN, WHO?
Where and when?
Choosing staff
CHAPTER 4: ASSESSING NEEDS
Assessment processes and principles
Assessment tools
CHAPTER 5: THE IMPORTANCE OF EVALUATION
Why evaluate?
Planning an evaluation
Using assessment data in an evaluation
CHAPTER 6: PLANNING SERVICES
The planning process: generic and specialist services
Working Together
CHAPTER 7: WHICH INTERVENTIONS?
Diversionary and preventative approaches
Risk reduction services
'Counselling' and behavioural approaches
Working with families
Pharmacological therapies
KEY ACTION AREAS
APPENDIX 1: REFERENCE GROUP MEMBERSHIP
APPENDIX 2: SEMINAR DELEGATES
APPENDIX 3: CONSULTING YOUNG PEOPLE
APPENDIX 4: LANARKSHIRE STAGED INTERVENTION MODEL
REFERENCES
What is in this Guide?
Definitions of the target client group and their needs
Key principles underpinning effective services
Key issues to address in delivering services
What is the aim?
To provide information and evidence to support the development of services for young people experiencing problems due to their own problematic drugs and/or substance misuse. The guide focuses on the needs of DATs in their role as commissioners of services as well as the direct delivery of services.
Who should use it?
Anyone involved in developing, designing, implementing or evaluating services for young people with developed substance misuse problems. Those developing wider services aimed at vulnerable children and young people may find the information useful.
Who wrote this Guide?
This guide is a collaborative piece of work between the
Effective Interventions Unit and Nicola Richards, Programme Manager for the
Partnership Drugs Initiative, Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland.
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