Understanding and Treating Caregiver Substance Abuse and Trauma: A Focus on the Family

In this webinar, speakers describe the connection between caregiver trauma and substance abuse, the impact of both on children, and the challenges experienced by families when both substance abuse and trauma are present. Four different models of intervening in the area of parenting, substance abuse, and trauma are presented including two parenting programs. An attachment curriculum utilized in a residential program for women with substance use disorders and an adaptation of Child Parent Psychotherapy for parents and children in family residential treatment for substance abuse are also discussed.