Home | Parenting | Teenage Years | Alcohol Abuse in Teens - Protective Factors & Recovery Signs

What is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?

Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

To properly view this site, javascript must be enabled and Flash version 9 or higher must be installed.
Get the latest Flash player

View All Videos In This Series

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

Expert: Judith Welles Cousins

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

judithwellescousinslcsw.com

P: 703-921-1166

Email: 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 More »