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  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Addiction Medicine

Background:

  • Adolescent substance use research often focuses on prevention or severe disorders, neglecting mild-to-moderate use.
  • Brief interventions using cognitive-behavioral (CB) and motivational interviewing (MI) strategies show promise for this population.
  • Parental involvement can enhance intervention accessibility and effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate an innovative home-based brief intervention for parents of adolescents with mild to moderate substance use.
  • To assess the intervention's impact on adolescent substance use and family cohesion.
  • To explore the role of baseline substance use severity in predicting intervention outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • A quasi-experimental design was employed with parents and adolescents from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area.
  • The intervention trained parents in CB and MI principles for home-based application.
  • Outcomes measured included adolescent substance use frequency, alcohol use disorder symptomology, and family cohesion.

Main Results:

  • Significant decreases in adolescent marijuana use frequency were observed.
  • Adolescent alcohol use disorder symptomology decreased.
  • Parental happiness with their adolescent child increased.
  • Alcohol and tobacco use frequency remained statistically unchanged.
  • Baseline drug use severity moderated intervention outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • The home-based intervention shows potential utility for addressing mild to moderate adolescent substance use.
  • Findings highlight the need for accessible and efficient interventions targeting this under-researched group.
  • Parental training in CB and MI principles is a feasible approach to enhance intervention delivery.