Attachment-Based Considerations for Addressing Adolescent Substance Use (ASU) in a Family Context

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

The American Journal of Family Therapy

Volume

43

Issue

1

Publisher

Routledge

Publication Date

7-30-2014

First Page

28

Last Page

43

Abstract

In this article, we highlight adolescence as a transitional period of great importance to families, outline the risk of adolescent substance use (ASU), and discuss the challenge of family therapists to adequately address issues of substance use in the therapy process. We also mention the increasing use of attachment theory as a conceptual tool, and discuss how it has recently been used to understand ASU. In this article, attachment-based considerations are proposed to address mild/moderate ASU issues that arise in the context of family therapy. A clinical narrative is provided to further illustrate the application of these considerations.

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