It Takes a Family: The Impact of Family Participation in Teen Substance Use Treatment

This training provides an overview of how teenagers struggling with substance use benefit from family involvement throughout their time in treatment. This training will invite clinicians to explore with families how the identified patient and family cycle through the progression of addiction together; how they impact one another and have influence over one another through an integrated experience. The training will introduce research on family homeostasis and the importance of disrupting homeostasis in substance use disorder treatment. The training draws from key research on treating substance use in teenagers and evidence based interventions such as psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, contingency management, and relapse prevention planning. The training will provide clinicians with practical examples of how how relapse prevention planning and contingency management can impact the recovery process in the home environment.