First Contact
A Brief Treatment for Young Substance Users
Curtis Breslin, Kathy Sdao-Jarvie, Elsbeth Tupker and Shelly Pearlman
Most young people tend to drop out early from extended outpatient treatment for
substance use. First Contact is a brief treatment program designed for counsellors
working with adolescents and young adults who have substance use problems. Designed
to strengthen clients' motivation and commitment to change, this outpatient program
combines elements of cognitive-behavioural and motivational interviewing approaches.
The program can be a "first-step" for youth with substance use problems,
fostering motivation for change before addressing more specialized or long-term needs.
The program includes exercises on topics such as:
- costs and benefits of changing
- setting goals and monitoring results
- identifying high-risk situations for alcohol or drug use
- learning about the change process and how to sustain change over time
- coping with relapse
Published 1999
67 pages
$24.95 Ontario * $29.95 outside Ontario
ISBN 0-88868-355-3
Product code: PG100
Freedom to Act: The "Harm Reduction for Rural
Youth" Project Experience
Freedom to Act is a case study about young people in a high school co-op
program combining their skills to reach a common goal. This youth team creates a
magazine called Wild Times, Deadly Times, with information on how to avoid alcohol
and drug use.
This project guide provides suggested activities, tips and ideas for supporting
rural youth to address issues and problems related to alcohol and other drug use
among their peers. The resources and strategies of this case study could be applied
equally to rural youth service agencies and to urban secondary schools.
Published 2000
36 pages
$19.95 Ontario
$24.95 outside Ontario
ISBN 0-88868-374-X
Product Code: PG106
Let 'Em Go: How to Support Youth
in Creating Their Own Solutions
Kim Breland, Elsbeth Tupker and Paulette West
Let 'Em Go demonstrates the value in using a participatory approach when
working with youth. The book chronicles the story of the Street-Involved Youth Harm
Reduction Project (SIYHRP), which brought together a diverse group of people interested
in education, action and social change.
Written in an easy-to-follow format, offering ideas and techniques and including
samples of materials that can be used as templates for your own projects, Let 'Em
Go is a "must have" for anyone working with street youth or youth in general,
and for those in any field who are interested in learning more about conducting participatory
research and development.
Published 1998
64 pages
$24.95 Ontario
$29.95 outside Ontario
ISBN 0-88868-361-8
Product Code: PG094
Antisocial and Violent Youth
Do Not Choose to Be Bad
This brochure explains why some youth commit antisocial and violent acts and what
we can all do to help children and families.
Published 2001
Package of 10: $5.00
Product Code: PR061
Unlike other CAMH brochures, the first fifty copies are not free.
Antisocial and Violent Youth,
Volume II
The Latest Research in an Easy-to-Read Format
Forthcoming
Edited by Jalal Shamsie, Joanne Lawrence and Carole Hood
For 20 years, Dr. Jalal Shamsie has been selecting clinically relevant articles,
from over 70 professional scientific journals, on antisocial and violent behaviour
in youth and offering valuable summaries of the latest research findings.
Antisocial and Violent Youth, Volume II covers literature from 1998 to
2002. The abstracts show more research on bullying and on the effectiveness of school-based
programs, advances in knowledge about risk and protective factors, effective methods
of prevention and treatment, and the links between fundamental and applied research
that informs intervention methods.
To be published February 2003
150 pages * $20.00
ISBN 0-88868-435-5
Product Code: PR057
Antisocial and Violent Youth,
Volume I
The Latest Research of over 600 Authorities in Easy-to-Read Format
Jalal Shamsie, Sorrel Nicholl and Kirsten C. Madsen, Editors
Antisocial and Violent Youth, Volume I is a collection of accessible abstracts
of research documents that have appeared in professional journals from 1983 to 1997.
Bridging the gap between research and practice, between what is known and what is
done, this collection helps professionals to provide evidence-based treatment, and
parents to be aware of what makes children antisocial and how to prevent it.
Published by Lugus Publications
Published 1999
381 pages $35.50
ISBN 1-896266-69-X
Product Code: PR063
Are You Worried about Your Child's
Misbehaviour?
This brochure, originally published by the Institute for the study of Antisocial
behaviour in Youth (IAY), gives quick guidance to parents and caregivers of when
to worry about a child's misbehaviour and the steps to take to get help.
Published 2001
Package of 10: $5.00
Product Code: PR060
Unlike other CAMH brochures, the first fifty copies are not free.
Youth with Conduct Disorder
Jalal Shamsie and Cathy Hluchy
Conduct disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disorders affecting children
and adolescents between the ages of four and 16. It is characterized by a persistent
pattern of behaviour whereby the child violates the basic rights of others and major
age-appropriate societal norms.
This booklet presents the major issues of conduct disorder, from diagnosis to treatment
and prevention, and assesses the heavy toll conduct disorder exacts on society.
Published 1991
30 pages $4.95
Product Code: PR062
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