Counseling Theories

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This paper critically evaluates the integration of Person-Centered, Behavior, and Family Systems theories as they apply to counseling adolescents with substance abuse history. The paper will also reveal the therapy approaches in school, group, and private settings.

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"In the United States, substance abuse is a grave dilemma across all sections of the population. Various studies have concluded that substance abuse is the most devastating and the most common mind disorder among Americans. Researchers have established that substance abuse is the foremost enduring health dilemma, and the foremost prison dilemma in the United States. Substance abuse has got a lot of attention in the prevalent, as well as practiced literature in current years. The dilemmas of community statistics with numerous illegal substances receive almost weekly attention in the media (Clayton and Elsie, 1997). Given this observation, the excessive occurrence of substance abuse in the society, the financial expenses, and the costs in human distress, it is very important that counseling specialists are educated on the subject of substance abuse as a disability."

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