Social Markers of Maturation and the Transition to Young Adulthood: The Life Courses of Adolescent Substance Users After Treatment

"Findings did not support use of the Cumulative Stress Theory or the Precocious Development Theory for predicting outcomes in this clinical population. The ADP models offered significant improvement over the model with background characteristics only. Change in social environment was the leading predictive indicator of both substance use and illegal activity outcomes. Implications for re-specifying the ADP theory suggest a focus on social environment impact and resilience, and expansion of the theory to include gender differences. Implications for clinicians treating adolescents with substance use disorders include the need for broader definitions of treatment ""success"" and more consumer input into this definition, the use of continuing care post-primary treatment through assertive secondary care and through interventions that target community, such as recovery schools. Finally, because these multiple antisocial behaviors are intertwined, system cooperation is needed among between schools, the justice system, and the treatment system."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• White, Michelle K.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Catherine Kenney

• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3223749

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86216