the effectiveness of family-based treatment on craving in girl students with substance abuse

Background: substance abuse and addiction are serious problems all around the world. increased substance use tendency in adolescents has attracted the researchers’ and therapists’ attention. objectives: the current study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of family-based treatment on craving in girl students with substance abuse. patients and methods: in this multiple baseline experimental single case study, four families and their girl adolescents who were engaged in substance abuse were selected using the purposive sampling technique. family-based treatment (fbt) was performed in three phases of baseline, intervention, and follow-up. data were collected using the craving beliefs questionnaire (cbq). the data was analyzed using descriptive statistics methods. results: this study demonstrated that fbt could significantly decrease the craving, 40.08% improvements. conclusions: fbt canbeconsidered asaneffective strategy for changing the dysfunctional cycle of the family systemanddecreasing substance use tendency in adolescents.