Dr. Walling is the creator and owner of ASAP, the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program, Arizona's finest IOP Program for Teen substance abuse, with three sites to serve the entire Phoenix Metro area.  Just call our wonderful Admissions Coordinator, Stefanie Nader, at (602) 434-0249 for more information or to have a Teen scheduled for an Admission Evaluation.   Here are the Program details:

What is ASAP? The Adolescent Substance Abuse Program has proven Arizona’s finest outpatient substance abuse treatment program for teens since 1991. Founded by Dr. Mark Rohde, Dr. Phil Lett, and Dr. Curtis Walling, since 1991 ASAP has proudly served as Arizona’s finest teen counseling program under the continuous direction of psychologist Dr. Curtis Walling. More than five thousand families have found that the ASAP Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) can produce the “real-world” lifestyle changes that yield lasting sobriety for teens and an improved quality of life for the entire family.

How does ASAP work?

The ASAP IOP Program has proven uniquely successful by employing just some of the following features:

 Group counseling for teens continues to prove the most potent treatment for young substance abusers. Positive peer pressure in group therapy is unmatched as a change agent with teens. Individual therapy is rarely successful, given a youth’s ability to hide and minimize drug use. Clinical research and many years of experience have indicated that the amount and duration of group counseling must be very significant, and it must match the severity of the teen’s drug or alcohol use problem.

 “Best Practices” is a mandate that has guided all ASAP treatment since our origin in 1991. Only interventions proven successful by research and clinical experience are utilized. Our evidence-based approach yields the most consistent therapeutic success. The ASAP Curriculum is a copyrighted mix of diverse and empirically proven therapy techniques that ASAP staff utilize to treat male and female teens experiencing a broad array of challenges to sobriety. Particular focus is put on Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change model.

 Urine Drug Testing is conducted randomly and for cause throughout the ASAP Program to assess abstinence and honesty, and to combat denial. Parents are taught to use urinalysis at home as a highly effective deterrent.

Family participation in counseling is mandatory. Teens attend group counseling three evenings per week for 10 weeks (30 total sessions). Parents attend one group counseling session each week. Few if any lasting changes are possible in the “real world” without the family receiving the help needed to re-establish healthy bonds, improve communication, and set proper limits and rules at home.

 Drug education is just the beginning. At ASAP, teens are also taught the coping skills necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety. Coping skills training includes refusal skills, peer selection, communicating with parents, grief resolution, coping with emotions, conflict resolution, identifying high-risk situations and persons, school and work success skills, and of course relapse prevention.

 Help for parents is available in the form of Home contracts, effective communication, conflict resolution, limits and boundaries, healthy friends, recreation and enjoying sobriety, homework assignments, and drug testing at home. At ASAP, all families progress through treatment together. Parents benefit as much as teens when they work with ASAP staff to overcome teen drug use.

 Insurance coverage - ASAP is contracted with all private health insurance plans, and most AHCCCS plans: United, Health Choice, Banner University, Arizona Complete Health, and Molina. (ASAP is not contracted with Mercy Care.) Chances are excellent that your health insurance will cover treatment at ASAP. Contact ASAP to investigate insurance coverage or schedule an evaluation.

For more information call (602) 434-0249