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Children of Parents With Addiction: Hidden Burdens and Resiliencies

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About the Course

The effects of addiction on families are typically included in addiction courses, less so effects on children. This presentation teaches how one out of 4 children are affected by trauma and chronic stress. There are neurobiological effects and lifelong consequences which may be relational, social, cognitive, academic, attachment, and behavioral. Others may not know there is addiction in the family since stigma, family secrecy rules about not talking, and fear of not being believed makes identification challenging. These children form a marginalized cohort holding the family’s stigma and pain by taking on roles in the family. Services are limited for all children. Poverty, parental incarceration, systemic racism, and other forms of discrimination further affect availability. Trauma-informed adults can create a safe, predictable place to recognize, nurture, support, and develop resilience. This process can lead to prevention of the child’s own use, the ability to express feelings, learn trust, feel less isolated, and heal the shame and stigma of parental use. Ways to help children and put together educational support groups will be explained.

This course is based on the recorded webinar, Children of Parents With Addiction: Hidden Burdens and Resiliencies created by Wendy Wade PhD, LPCC, CADC 1 in 2024.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Aug 2024

Course Material Author

Wendy Wade PhD, LPCC, CADC 1
Wendy Wade, PhD, LPCC and CADC 1 has worked with children and families for many years. She began by facilitating educational support groups with children of parents with substance use disorder in the 1980s when the field was first beginning. She taught in elementary school, both public and private, and was principal in a public elementary school. Her next opportunity was as coordinator of Children’s Program at the Betty Ford Center 2000s. She began training and speaking at conferences at that time. She volunteered at Santa Cruz County Children’s Mental Health working up assessments to ascertain if psychological issues may be interfering with meeting educational goals for children with IEPs. She also provided therapeutic support to children in special education, their families, and school staff. She was counselor/case manager with adults in inpatient treatment for substance use disorder and was also coordinator of family program services at Beacon House in Northern California. She volunteered as camp counselor bi-monthly for 4 years at Camp Mariposa for COAs. The children were from ages 9-12 and were referred by Youth Services in San Diego. She has continued providing training for teachers, counselors, therapists, and addiction professionals especially beginning in 2016 to the present and speaks at conferences as often as possible about this marginalized cohort of children who need understanding and information on how to help them. She has been a trainer for the National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA) for several years, first on the Celebrating Families Curriculum and more recently with the revised Children’s Program Kit She has co-written curricula for online training in both curricula, and is developing a significantly revised in-person training on the CP Kit. She is Assistant Professor at Palo Alto University in the MA in Counseling Program, beginning in 2014. She is lead teacher in the Addiction Counseling Class, and teaches several other classes as well

Wendy Wade PhD, LPCC, CADC 1 authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for intermediate and above levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Define three traumatic adverse effects of parental addiction on children's cognitive, behavioral, physical, and social-emotional development.
  2. 2 Explain two ways children carry the family's stigma and pain by adopting survival roles.
  3. 3 Discuss how to nurture children's resiliencies to effectively guide them in developing three effective coping skills.

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Course Details

3 CE Hours
Recorded Webinar
Course 103568

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Availability

This course is available until Oct 8th, 2034.

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