Maryhaven

Adolescent Involvement in Parental Substance Abuse Treatment: Evaluation of EBFT

Overview

Parents' drug/alcohol use can negatively influence their children's developmental outcomes. Conversely, we know that children can impact their parents' alcohol/drug use and mental health. As such, involvement of the adolescent in the treatment plan of the adult substance user might be a powerful target of intervention with the potential to positively impact both child, adult, and family outcomes. If the inclusion of a parent-child component to the treatment plan of substance abusing parents reduces adult relapse and maintains greater substance use reductions, in addition to improving child functioning, this will provide support to the assertion that focus on family dynamics in substance abuse treatment programs is an effective use of resources and an important target of intervention effort.

Date of the Project

December 2008 through November 2013

The design of the study

The brief overview of the intervention

Measures used in the study