Adolescent Substance Abuse New Frontiers in Assessment Edited by Ken C. Winters, PhD

Number of Pages: xii + 114 pp. with Index.

“Dr. Ken Winters has assembled A STELLAR GROUP OF AUTHOR-INVESTIGATORS. . . . Too often, the empirical literature and research focuses on identifying risk factors for the development of substance abuse problems or on clinical trials testing treatment modalities at the expense of developing a literature on assessment. This volume fills that void quite nicely. . . . Other important topics include concordance among adolescent self-report, collateral reports, urine drug screens, comparison of anonymous surveys with confidential surveys of substance use, and an examination of gender differences within the context of the psychometric properties of the Personal Experience Inventory (PEI), a popular comprehensive assessment tool for adolescents with substance abuse problems. . . . THE READER WILL BE REWARDED BY THE DEPTH AND RANGE.”
-- Oscar G. Bukstein, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

 Contents 

    * Introduction: Progress in the Assessment of Adolescent Drug Abuse (Ken C. Winters)
    * Mapping the Clinical Complexities of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders: A Typological Study (Kathleen Meyers, Paul A. McDermott, Alicia Webb, and Teresa A. Hagan)
    * Community Readiness Survey: Norm Development Using a Q-Sort Process (Anu Sharma, Andria Botzet, Rebecca A. J. Sechrist, Nikki Arthur, and Ken C. Winters)
    * Screening American Indian Youth for Referral to Drug Abuse Prevention and Intervention Services (Ken C. Winters, Jerome DeWolfe, Donald Graham, and Wehnona St. Cyr)
    * Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use: Concordance Among Objective-, Self-, and Collateral-Reports (Joseph A. Burleson and Yifrah Kaminer)
    * Adolescent Substance Abuse in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States: Effect of Anonymous versus Confidential Survey Formats (William W. Latimer, Megan S. O’Brien, Marco A. Vasquez, Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Carlos F. Rios-Bedoya, and Leah J. Floyd)
    * Gender Differences in Measuring Adolescent Drug Abuse and Related Psychosocial Factors (Andria Botzet, Ken Winters, and Randy Stinchfield)
    * Index
    * Reference Notes Included