Prevention of drug abuse among young people living in a youth center
The adolescent accommodated in center youth are much more for risk to consume drugs and to develop a drug addiction owed to their experiences of life and their personal, social and family characteristics. The program ‘‘Group of Reflection on the Drugs’’ proposes to the young people an initiative combining two approaches which aim at their empowerment in front of the consumption instead of the abstinence. This program, combining the reduction of the misdeeds and the behavioral cognitive approach, was estimated in 2009 within the framework of a training of mastery in psychoéducation with a group of six accommodated teenagers. The results of the evaluation among others allowed to formulate recommendations to the authors of the program. To premium on board, we keep that the elements touching advertising and the different means of placement in relation are to be preserved seen their positive impact on the participants. Certain other elements as the format of the workshops and the necessity to present the program to the parents should be modified for some to increase effectiveness.