Adolescent Screening and Personalized Intervention Resource for Enhancement of Behavioral Health and Substance Use

The ePACE intervention is based on culturally and developmentally relevant youth treatments organized around an integrative approach based on Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to enhance motivation for change, support awareness of thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and address specific behavior change goals. The web-based approach is personalized, with youth-driven choices in terms of intensity, content, and sequencing of content and provide tailored feedback to youth regarding each individual's behavior change efforts. Modules address substance use, negative moods, decision-making, and interpersonal relations and require approximately 40-minutes to complete. Interactive activities, exercises, and quizzes are designed to promote skill acquisition. Each module involves an introduction and engagement strategies, several exercises and activities related to the problem area, goal setting, and a summary.

The eFACE intervention includes content that is similar to ePACE, but modules are offered in a fixed order with no tailoring features. Like ePACE, modules address substance use, negative moods, decision-making, and interpersonal relations and require approximately 40-minutes to complete. Each module involves an introduction and engagement strategies, several exercises and activities related to the problem area, goal setting, and a summary. However, no personalized feedback based on youth responses are provided to inform individual youth's behavior change efforts.