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Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Cannabis Users: 5 Sessions

Acknowledgements, Disclaimer, and Contact Information

Susan Sampl, Ph.D.
Ronald Kadden, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
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Rockville, MD 20857
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The material appearing on pages 68 through 76 was adapted from copyrighted material and may still be under copyright. The handouts are reproduced herein with the permission of the copyright holders. Before reprinting, readers are advised to determine copyright status of all such materials or to secure permission of the copyright holders.

The document was written with the support of CSAT through grant numbers TI11317, TI11320, TI11321, TI11323, and TI11324. Jean Donaldson, M.A., served as the CSAT Project Officer. This document was edited and prepared for publication by CSAT’s Knowledge Application Program (KAP) under contract number 270-99-7072 with Johnson, Bassin & Shaw, Inc. (JBS), and The CDM Group. Karl White, Ed.D., served as the CSAT KAP Government Project Officer. Lynne McArthur served as the Project Director. Other JBS personnel included Barbara Fink, M.P.H., Deputy Director for Product Development; Nancy Hegle, Quality Control Manager; and Tonya Young, Graphic Artist.

The opinions expressed herein are the views of the authors and do not represent the official position of CSAT, SAMHSA, or any other part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 01–3486
Printed 2001

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This document is a product of the Steering Committee for the Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Project Cooperative Agreement that was funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The document was prepared with support from CSAT grants for a coordinating center awarded to Chestnut Health Systems, Inc. (TI11320); four sites awarded to the University of Connecticut Health Center (TI11324), Operation Parental Awareness and Responsibility, Inc. (PAR) (TI11317), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) (TI11323), and Chestnut Health Systems (TI11321) as well as Federal staff time from the CSAT collaborators. The authors would like to acknowledge that this work builds directly on earlier manuals done for adults as part of CSAT’s Marijuana Treatment Project (Steinberg, Carroll, Roffman & Kadden, 1997), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s (NIAAA) Project MATCH (Kadden, Carroll, Donovan, Cooney, Monti, Abrams, Litt & Hester, 1992; Miller, Zweben, DiClemente & Rychtarik, 1992), and an earlier manual for treating alcohol dependence through coping skills training (Monti, Abrams, Kadden & Cooney, 1989). They would also like to thank the staff of the CYT studies and the following people for their assistance in preparing and implementing this protocol: Michael Dennis, Guy Diamond, Jean Donaldson, Susan Godley, Jim Herrell, Yifrah Kaminer, Kerry Anne McGeary, Frank Tims, Janet Titus, and William White. Appreciation is also extended to Joan Unsicker of Chestnut Health Systems for the thoughtful review she provided of an earlier draft of the manual. Finally, the authors would like to thank Barbara Fink of Johnson, Bassin & Shaw, Inc., who provided valuable assistance in preparing the manual for publication.

The opinions expressed in this document are solely those of the authors and do not represent official positions of CSAT or any other governmental agency. While studies of a combined motivational enhance-ment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (MET/CBT) approach are promising, this treatment protocol was tested with adolescents for the first time as part of this study. The findings from the CYT study will be made public in 2001. Appendix 5 presents a detailed account of the CYT study.

For further information about this manual, please contact the MET/CBT5 work group chair, Dr. Ronald Kadden, at 860–679–4249 (Kadden@psychiatry.uchc.edu) or Dr. Susan Sampl at 860–679–4715 (Sampl@psychiatry.uchc.edu). For further information about the Cannabis Youth Treatment Project please visit our Web site (www.chestnut.org/CYT) or contact the Steering Committee Chair, Dr. Michael Dennis, at 309–827–6026 (Mdennis@chestnut.org).

To order copies of this manual or any other manuals in this series, contact the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) at 800–729–6686, 800–487–4889 (TDD), (ncadi.samhsa.gov).

The manuals also will be available to download from http://www.samhsa.gov/csat/csat.aspx.

Manuals in the Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series

Sampl, S., & Kadden, R. Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Cannabis Users: 5 Sessions, Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series, Volume 1. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. BKD384

Webb, C., Scudder, M., Kaminer, Y., & Kadden, R. The Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Supplement: 7 Sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Cannabis Users, Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series, Volume 2. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. BKD385

Hamilton, N. L., Brantley, L. B., Tims, F. M., Angelovich, N., & McDougall, B. Family Support Network for Adolescent Cannabis Users, Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series, Volume 3. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. BKD386

Godley, S. H., Meyers, R. J., Smith, J. E., Karvinen, T., Titus, J. C., Godley, M. D., Dent, G., Passetti, L., & Kelberg, P. The Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach for Adolescent Cannabis Users, Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series, Volume 4. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. BKD387

Liddle, H. A. Multidimensional Family Therapy for Adolescent Cannabis Users, Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series, Volume 5. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. BKD388

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