Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change: Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: The Participant's Workbook

Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable patient population in the justice system. Mental health providers can get specific tools for improving evaluation and treatment of at-risk youth with this comprehensive and developmentally appropriate treatment program.

About the Participant’s Workbook

• Presents a written and illustrated format designed to help adolescents better understand and reflect on each of the 32 treatment sessions
• Supplies adolescent clients with a visual and written record of all treatment objectives, content information, modeling and role plays, discussion points, interactive exercises,
• Encourages journaling with reflective assignments and space to record ideas, insights, short and long term goals, and progress
• Geared toward a range of reading and conceptual abilities
• Uses comic strip illustrations and first-person stories to engage adolescents
• Guides participants through three discrete phases of resiliency and success:

1. Challenge to Change – WHAT?
2. Commitment to Change – HOW?
3. Ownership of Change – NOW!