Title of Document: EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF THE LET’S ACT BEHAVIORAL ACTIVATION TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT DROPOUT Jessica F. Magidson, Master of Science, 2010 Directed By: Carl W. Lejuez, Professor, Department of Psychology Despite the prevalence of depression among substance users and the negative impact of depressive symptoms on substance abuse treatment outcomes, f...

Substance use disorders are widely recognized as one of the most pressing global public health problems, and recent research indicates that environmental factors, including access and exposure to substances of abuse, neighborhood disadvantage and disorder, and environmental barriers to treatment, influence substance use behaviors. Racial and socioeconomic inequities in the factors that create r...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common mental health condition among military veterans, and research indicates that lifetime prevalence rates of PTSD among military veterans are higher than that of the general population (SAMHSA, 2007). The treatment of PTSD is often complicated by issues of comorbidity, such as substance use disorders, and treatment outcomes are poorer when comorbid...

Youth substance abuse relapse prevention was examined as a function of patients' situational self-efficacy (SE), their confidence to abstain from substance use in high-risk situations. An increase in SE has been shown to be enhanced by cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in adults. Eighty-eight adolescent substance abusers were randomly assigned to either CBT or psycho-education (PET) group ther...

In the past, traditional treatment methods for drug addiction and alcoholism have been characteristically intense and confrontational. They are designed to break down a client’s denial, defenses, and/or resistance to his or her addictive disorders, as they are perceived by the provider. Admissions criteria to substance abuse treatment programs usually require abstinence from all illicit substan...

This study examines the relationship among 4 treatment stages (i.e., engagement, persuasion, active treatment, relapse prevention) and the composition, social support, and structural characteristics of personal networks. The study sample includes 242 women diagnosed with substance dependence who were interviewed within their first month of intensive outpatient treatment. Using EgoNet software, ...

the purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of group schema therapy approach for b category personality disorders score adjustment in substance dependent individuals. the present study was performed on individuals under maintenance treatment with methadone in shiraz public centers. sample group included 30 persons who were under treatment. instruments used included: clinical inte...