ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment
Do improvements in substance use and mental health symptoms during treatment translate to long-term outcomes in the opposite domain?
Article in Journal of substance abuse treatment. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions for prevention and treatment of substance use in youth with traumatic childhood experiences: a systematic review and synthesis of the literature.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Evidence Base on Outpatient Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use, 2014-2017: Outcomes, Treatment Delivery, and Promising Horizons.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- Evidence Base on Outpatient Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use, Update 2018-2023: Current Status, Best Practices, and Opportunities for Advancing the Science.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- Development of a brief inpatient curriculum to enhance trainee skills in assessment and treatment of adolescents with substance use and co-occurring mental health problems.International journal of psychiatric trainees · 2025Article
- Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent Outpatient Treatment for Substance Use Problems: Exploring the Co-occurrence of Mental Health and Substance Use Problems.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2024Article
- A tutorial comparing different covariate balancing methods with an application evaluating the causal effects of substance use treatment programs for adolescents.Health services & outcomes research methodology · 2023Article
- Comparative effectiveness of individual versus family-based substance use treatment on adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- Adolescents with substance use problems in outpatient treatment: a one-year prospective follow-up study focusing on mental health and gender differences.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2022Article
- Nonparametric Estimation of Population Average Dose-Response Curves using Entropy Balancing Weights for Continuous Exposures.Health services & outcomes research methodology · 2021Article
- Expanding outcomes when considering the relative effectiveness of two evidence-based outpatient treatment programs for adolescents.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Observational
- Core Elements of CBT for Adolescent Conduct and Substance Use Problems: Comorbidity, Clinical Techniques, and Case Examples.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2020Article
- Treating Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents: What Is on the Menu?Current psychiatry reports · 2017Review
- Characteristics of Youth Presenting to a Canadian Youth Concurrent Disorders Program: Clinical Complexity, Trauma, Adaptive Functioning and Treatment Priorities.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2016Article
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Abstract
Providers who treat adolescents with co-occurring substance use and mental health issues may prioritize treatment of one set of symptoms believing that improvements in one domain will result in improvements of the other. However, limited empirical data for adolescents provide evidence of such "spillover effects." Using data from 2900 youth in an outpatient treatment, we examined whether during-treatment changes in substance use or mental health symptoms predicted 12-month outcomes in the analogous and opposite domains. There was very little evidence of spillover effects, only that youth with no internal distress at 0 and 3 months reported lower levels of substance use problems at 12-months relative to youth with internal distress that stayed the same from 0 to 3 months. These findings suggest that providers treat both sets of substance use and mental health symptoms in an integrated manner given that these symptoms commonly co-occur among youth with either set.
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