Models and algorithms for health and social care of adolescents with addictive behavior, who use psychoactive substances

Abstract

Background. The use of various psychoactive substances by adolescents and young people is the actual medical, psychological and social problem, which, unfortunately, has not yet been properly addressed. It should be noted that early diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders that occur the use of psychoactive substances (both episodic and systematic ones) for this contingent of respondents is a very complex issue, closely related to the destigmatization of psychiatric care, the success of psychoeducational projects on microsocial and family macrosocial (staff of educational institutions, social services, general practice) levels. It is periodically detection and early care in the vast majority of cases which have been determined the prognosis of mental illnesses and social consequences.
 Objective – based on a systematic, interdisciplinary approach we have the purpose to develop a model and the algorithm for providing medical and social care to adolescents with addictive behavior who use psychoactive substances.
 Materials and methods. A systematic, interdisciplinary approach is used.
 Results. Trends in the use of psychoactive substances by adolescents and young people will be described in such a way. Most of the respondents when taking various psychoactive substances were mainly in the area of relatively “safe” (1-7 points) or “dangerous use” (8-15 points), but without harmful effects or states of dependence. For adolescents with addictive behavior who used psychoactive substances, depending on the degree of use, we developed a model and the algorithm for medical and social care. Proposed measures were mainly psychotherapeutic and psychocorrectional in their nature.
 Conclusions. Based on the obtained data, the study and testing of addictive behavior of adolescents, the influence of social factors, premorbid mental disorders were developed and a model and the algorithm for providing medical and social care to adolescents who use psychoactive substances at different levels of care were tested.