Risky Alcohol Consumption among Adolescents

This manual provides expert knowledge on theory and practice for conducting a motivational brief intervention with adolescents after alcohol intoxication, with the aim of promoting low-risk use of alcohol. Enriched with examples and tips on how to proceed in difficult (conversational) situations, users receive practical instructions on how to conduct a theory-based and evaluated motivational patient interview, instructions for a parent interview and all relevant materials for implementation. The intervention was developed and evaluated as part of a research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is based on the bridge conversation of the alcohol prevention programme "HaLT - Hart am LimiT".

Theory-based and evaluated approach to a reactive intervention for the Prevention of risky alcohol consumption among young people Practical, understandable with examples and summaries edited With all materials relevant to the implementation

Autorentext

Silke Diestelkamp is a psychologist and research associate at the German Center for Addiction in Childhood and Adolescence (DZSKJ) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Prof. Dr. med. Rainer Thomasius is Medical Director of the German Centre for Addiction Issues in Childhood and Adolescence (DZSKJ) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Klappentext

This manual provides expert knowledge on the theory and practice of conducting a brief motivational intervention with adolescents after alcohol intoxication, with the aim of promoting low-risk use of alcohol. Enriched with examples and tips on how to proceed in difficult (conversational) situations, users receive practical instructions on how to conduct a theory-based and evaluated motivational patient interview, instructions for a parent interview, and all relevant materials for implementation.

The content

• Theoretical background: risky alcohol consumption among adolescents and the effectiveness of brief motivational interventions
• Development and evaluation of the HaLT Hamburg intervention
• Practice: Implementation and goals of the brief intervention as well as a parent interview, interview documentation and materials for implementation The target groups

Social pedagogues, psychologists, pedagogues, educationalists, doctors and specialists in (addiction) counselling centres or clinics

The authors

Silke Diestelkamp is a graduate psychologist and senior researcher at the German Centre for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence (DZSKJ) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Prof. Dr. med. Rainer Thomasius is Medical Director of the German Centre for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence (DZSKJ) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Theoretical background.- The HaLT Hamburg study.- Practice.- Materials and further reading.