SECTION ON ADOLESCENTS
Director: Ken Winters, Ph.D.
The Section on Adolescents at the Treatment Research Institute is the focus for all projects dealing with the causes, effects and treatment of youth substance use and abuse. Findings are disseminated to parents and parent groups, treatment providers and to those who help design and approve treatment and prevention strategies for this unique population.
Helping parents and other adults effectively exercise their considerable influence over youth drinking and drug-taking is a major focus of this Section. With the Partnership at DrugFree.org (Partnership for a Drug Free America), TRI investigators supply the science for such empirically informed parent tools as A Parent’s Guide to the Teen Brain and Time to Act! Other projects disseminate science-based information on adolescent brain development, availability of drugs via the Internet, and teen-age/college student use of over-the-counter medications.
TRI provides expertise to the Betty Ford Institute, most recently aimed to improving parenting practices for adults who themselves are in recovery. Investigators in this Section are also principals in the Parents Translational Research Center and collaborate with their colleagues from TRI’s Law and Ethics Section to develop interventions for youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
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