Dealing with and treating substance use and abuse
Dealing with and treating substance use and abuse
Dealing with and treating substance use and abuse
Resource Analysis on Substance Use and Abuse. Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use Prevention Programs in U.S. Schools: A Descriptive Summary, School-Level Correlates of Adolescent Tobacco, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use, and Sobriety Studies: Recovery High Schools Show Success in Helping Students Overcome Substance Abuse.
Identify and analyze one resource that provides information regarding services for dealing with and treating substance use and abuse in youth or adolescence.
Write a paper which discusses the availability of the services, the requirements for accessing those services, and the human service professionals involved in the service setting.
Proper APA Style format (7th ed.) is required (see the Writing Center’s Introduction to APA for assistance). If you choose to expand beyond the resource located for this assignment and utilize supporting materials, then the use of two (2) peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles is also a requirement.
Watch the YouTube video What Is Benchmarking? Benchmark the service chosen against these standards.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument