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!

Kenneth W. Wanberg, ThD, PhD, has academic concentrations in biology, mathematics, clinical psychology, psychology of religion, psychometrics, quantitative analysis, and interpersonal communication and the psychology of spoken language. He worked as a counselor and clinical psychologist with the Division of Youth Corrections, State of Colorado for 17 years. He has been doing clinical work for 50 years and has had a private practice for 40 years. He has worked as a clinician and researcher in the field of alcohol and drug abuse for over 40 years and in the field of criminal conduct and substance abuse for over 25 years.

Harvey B. Milkman, PhD received his baccalaureate degree from City College of New York and his doctorate from Michigan State University. He is currently professor of psychology at Metropolitan State College of Denver. His doctoral research was conducted with William Frosch, MD, at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City, on the User’s Drug of Choice. From 1980–1981, he completed a sabbatical exploration of addictive behavior in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia; in 1985 he was recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Lectureship award at the National University of Malaysia. He has represented the United States Information Agency as a consultant and featured speaker in Australia, Brazil, Iceland, The Netherlands, Peru, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. He is principle author with Stanley Sunderwirth of “The Chemistry of Craving,” and author of “Better than Dope,” featured articles in Psychology Today, October, 1983 and April, 2001 respectively. From September 1992–June 2002, he was author, principal investigator, and director of Project Self-Discovery: Artistic Alternatives for High-Risk Youth, a national demonstration model funded by The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Edward Byrne Foundation.