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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner's Guide

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HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Last Reviewed: October 2015

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup

This guide helps health care professionals to quickly identify youth at risk for alcohol-related problems. It includes age-specific screening questions, an assessment tool to estimate risk level, and other clinician support materials.

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Reduce the proportion of adolescents who drank alcohol in the past month — SU‑04
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people under 21 years who engaged in binge drinking in the past month — SU‑09
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2015). Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner's Guide. Retrieved from https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-screening-and-brief-intervention-youth-practitioners-guide