What is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?
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What is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?
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Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
703-921-1166
jwcousins91@hotmail.com
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 is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?
Judith Welles Cousins: Hi, my name is Judy Cousins, I am a Clinical Social Worker. I have a private practice in Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia and what I am talking about right now is how to recognize teen alcohol and drug abuse. What are the signs and symptoms and what I want to talk about specifically now is, how do you know and what do you look for and what are the signs and symptoms of recovery of a teen getting healthy again?
Host: What is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?
Judith Welles Cousins: When I talk with families about what to look for when they are concerned that they have a teen who is using alcohol or other drug, one of the things I do is make an assessment, make an evaluation, what's going on in this family, what's going on with this teen and I talk about risk factors and protective factors.
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Judith Welles Cousins: Hi, my name is Judy Cousins, I am a Clinical Social Worker. I have a private practice in Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia and what I am talking about right now is how to recognize teen alcohol and drug abuse. What are the signs and symptoms and what I want to talk about specifically now is, how do you know and what do you look for and what are the signs and symptoms of recovery of a teen getting healthy again?
Host: What is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?
Judith Welles Cousins: When I talk with families about what to look for when they are concerned that they have a teen who is using alcohol or other drug, one of the things I do is make an assessment, make an evaluation, what's going on in this family, what's going on with this teen and I talk about risk factors and protective factors.
A risk factor are those things that are going to influence a teen to use. A protective factor is just the opposite. A protective factor are those behaviors or those values or those actions, those traits in a teen and in the family and in society as well that are going to make it less likely that a teen is going to use, really mitigate against the teen using. 1
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alcohol treatment by Johnclave at 02/16/11 11:43AM Flag
Alcohol abuse is a pattern of drinking that results in harm to one’s health, interpersonal relationships, or ability to work. According to Gelder, Mayou & Geddes alcohol abuse is linked with suicide http://www.biblehealth.com/alcoholism/alcohol-treatment.html
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