Self-directed online training
Event description
This course is the second in a suite of parental substance use courses. The first course, The impact of parental substance use on the child, should be completed first.This course examines preventative opportunities and entry points to promote children’s mental health with parents in the context of parental substance use. It provides examples of conversations with parent-clients who are using substances in ways that affect the social and emotional wellbeing of their children.
The course will provide you with a conversation guide, which is easily incorporated into your current practice, to assist your work with parents who are affected by substance use. This guide recognises the challenges for practitioners in working with presentations of substance use. It also recognises the importance of making children’s safety and social and emotional wellbeing visible in all services.
Eligibility criteria
It recognises the significant proportion of parents who present to services who also have substance use issues, and the interrelated nature of substance use and mental health concerns, financial difficulties, family and domestic violence, homelessness, poverty, and child protection issues.
Categories:
Capability 6 - Understanding and responding to substance use and addiction,
Capability 8 - Working effectively with families, carers and supporters,
Working with infants, children, and younger persons
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical
Levels:
Intermediate
Lifespans:
Infant,
Child,
Adolescent,
Youth,
Adult
