Clinical Assessment and Substance Abuse Treatment

The Target Cities Experience

Richard C. Stephens, Christy K Scott, Randolph D. Muck, Richard C. Stephens, Christy K Scott, Randolph D. Muck

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780791487518
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Urban Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

During the 1990s, in response to the multi-faceted phenomenon of substance abuse, the federal government's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment funded the Target Cities project in nineteen U.S. cities. This volume evaluates how the Target Cities project affected both treatment systems and individuals with drug and alcohol problems. In each city, programs were established to evaluate the impact of these substances on an individual's mental and physical health, housing, family relationships, and involvement with the criminal justice system. A brief summary of the evolution of national perceptions of drug and alcohol problems is followed by a description of the project, its participants, the process of entering treatment, an organizational analysis of the project's many components, participant satisfaction and adjustment, and the implications of the research findings for policy makers and treatment personnel.

Table of contents

• Clinical Assessment and Substance Abuse Treatment
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Background and Overview of the Target Cities Demonstration Program by Christy K Scott and Randolph D. Muck
• 2. Methodological Issues in the Development of the Target Cities Multisite Databases by Peter J. Leahy, Richard C. Stephens, Heather K. Huff, and Russell S. Kaye
• 3. Participants in the Target Cities Program by Ronald E. Claus and René M. Dailey
• 4. Identifying Service Needs among Substance Abuse Treatment Participants by Mark A. Foss, Nancy Barron, and Cynthia L. Arfken
• 5. The Target Cities Participants: From Centralized Intake to Treatment Entry by Ronald E. Claus, Nancy Barron, and Kimberly A. Pascual
• 6. Effects of Centralized Intake on Participant Satisfaction with Treatment and Ancillary Services by Christy K Scott, Mark A. Foss, and Richard E. Sherman
• 7. Implementation of Selected Target Cities Components: Analysis of Matching, Case Management, and Linkages by Cynthia L. Arfken, Chris Klein, Elizabeth J. Agius, and Salvatore di Menza
• 8. Does Centralized Intake Improve Substance Abuse Outcomes? A Multisite Analysis by Joseph Guydish, Alan Bostrom, Sven Klingemann, Christy K Scott, Mark A. Foss, and Nancy Barron
• 9. Outcomes Before and After Implementing Centralized Intake Services by Christy K Scott, Mark A. Foss, and Richard E. Sherman
• 10. Effectively Assessing and Preparing Inmates for Community Substance Abuse Treatment: The Portland Target Cities Project In-Jail Intervention by Michael W. Finigan, Nancy Barron, and Shannon Carey
• 11. Lessons Learned from the National Target Cities Initiative to Improve Publicly Funded Substance Abuse Treatment Systems by Joseph Guydish, Richard C. Stephens, and Randolph D. Muck
• References
• Contributors
• Index