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What are the ways that a teen's personal behavior indicates alcohol abuse?

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Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
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Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

What are the ways that a teen's personal behavior indicates alcohol abuse?

 

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Host: What are the ways that a teen's personal behavior indicates alcohol abuse? Judith Welles Cousins: A teenager's behavior changes in a number of ways when they are using alcohol or other drugs and some of which I have touched on already. Teens will become -- often they will become more disrespectful, will become less concerned about what adults in particular think, become more oppositional, less cooperative, become more secretive, will often resort to lieing, sometimes stealing as well and usually, when that happens in a family there is a lot of angst, a lot worry and lot of anxiety that occurs. So you will also see the teenager acting in ways that indicate that they feel guilty and for instance, they might say to their parents, "You are always picking on me, you are always telling me, you don't trust me, you never let me do what I want to do.

" You hear those kinds of things where kids are using more often than you will with kids that or not.

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