Adolescent Substance Abuse Intervention Series Module Four: Family Support Network

Description:

The family support network (FSN) intervention seeks to extend the focus of treatment beyond the world of the adolescent by engaging the family, a major system in his or her life The FSN process is a family intervention designed to be used in conjunction with any standard adolescent treatment approach. SAMHSA, DHHS. The FSN approach consists of several components; each designed to achieve specific objectives: case management, six parent education (PE) groups, three or four in-home family therapy sessions.  The procedures presented in this manual combine motivational enhancement and cognitive behavioral therapies as one possible treatment overlay for the adolescent.  This course uses volume three of the series of treatment manuals produced under the Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Project Cooperative Agreement.  

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Citation:  Hamilton NL, Brantley LB, Tims FM, Angelovich N, McDougall B. Family Support Network for Adolescent Cannabis Users, Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Series, Volume 3. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA) 01–3488. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2001.

Objectives:  

Participant will be able to...

Case management Skills:  

1. Contact and engage families in the treatment process. 

2. Assist families in overcoming barriers to active participation. 

3. Identify appropriate service and treatment needs. 

4. Provide links for the families to needed services, including community support groups. 

5. Monitor the adolescent’s and family’s progress. 

6. Provide motivational enhancement. 

7. Monitor attendance and act quickly to prevent clients from disengaging or dropping out. 

8. Make appropriate referrals (including treatment reentry). 

9. Engage the family and the adolescent in a community support group. 

Parent Education Skills:

10. Build competence among parents that leads to healthy families. 

11. Offer methods for coping with the pressures of parenting. 

12. Promote ways to establish or restore appropriate authority, roles, rules, boundaries, communication, and routines. 

In-Home Visit Skills:

13. Assess the family environment. 

14. Individualize the treatment process. 

15. Develop a family commitment to recovery. 

16. Encourage a three-way therapeutic alliance 

Credits: 10

CE Broker#: 10-1165434

Agenda:

Hour One: Pretest, Introduction to and Overview of the Family Support Network Intervention,Treatment Goals 

Hour Two - Three: Parent Education Sessions and Discussion Procedures, Parent Education Session 1: Introduction to the Family Support Network, Adolescent 

Hour Four: Development, and Functional Families, Parent Education Session 2: Drugs and Adolescents 

Parent Education Session 3: Relapse Signs and Recovery 

Hour Five – Six: Parent Education Session 4: Boundaries, Limits, Authority, and Discipline, Parent Education Session 5: Communication, Conflict Resolution, and Fighting Fair, Parent Education Session 6: The Family Context 

Hour Seven: Home Visit Procedures, Home Visit 1 

Hour Eight: Home Visit 2, Home Visit 3, Home Visit 4 

Hour Nine: Case Management Procedures, Components of Case Management 

Hour Ten: Qualifications and Training, Missed Appointment Form, Case Management Service Log, Referral Form, Case Management Screening Log, Post Test

Purpose: To equip professional counselors with an evidence-based family treatment model for use with adolescent substance abusers who meet criteria for outpatient intervention.