Family and Cognitive Integrative Treatment to Prevent Relapse of Substance Abuse among Adolescents in Indonesia

Substance-dependent adolescents tend to experience relapses despite the psychological and medical treatment they received. Factors associated with the relapses include ineffective therapy, lack of posttreatment family support, and inability to prevent future relapses. This study investigates the effectiveness of the Family-Cognitive Integrative Therapy (F-CIT) model in preventing relapses of substance abuse among adolescents. There were ten participants randomly allocated into two groups. The experimental group received F-CIT, and the control group received no treatment. The Adolescent Relapse Coping Questionnaire used to measure the effectiveness of F-CIT model. The results showed that F-CIT model improves the adolescent ability to prevent relapses and remain abstinence after treatment. Thus, the additional of F-CIT model is sufficient to prevent relapses and improve abstinence against substance abuse among adolescents.