Providing Effective Treatment for Youth with Co-occurring Disorders

Kanary, Patrick
Shepler, Richard
Fox, Michael

2013-07

The presence of co-occurring mental disorders among court-involved youth with substance use disorders creates unique challenges for juvenile drug treatment courts. Research consistently finds that these youth present with the greatest impairment in individual and academic functioning, have elevated risk of suicide, and consistently have the poorest treatment outcomes. Policy and practice changes are necessary to successfully address youth with co-occurring disorders in juvenile drug treatment courts.

Substance abuse--Treatment
Mental illness--Treatment
Court-involved youth

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http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:2006070180

8 pages