Effective Family Support Programme

Date/Location: A date and location for this course is currently being planned. If you would like to be added to the waiting list and informed of relevant location and date, please email enquiries@therightroute.co.uk.

The tendency for policy and practice to focus on the individual with the drug problem has eclipsed consideration of the severe and enduring impacts of problem drug use on many families. This course looks at the influence of a child's drug problem on any younger brothers or sisters and the overriding evidence that such siblings are at higher risk of developing drug problems themselves. Problem drug use has a profound impact on all family members. Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters are caught in the maelstrom that drug problems almost inevitably create. Furthermore, when drugs come into a family, there is the danger that siblings might become involved in problem drug use, thus adding to family problems. This workshop considers the difficulties confronted by families in trying to respond to and cope with the changes that drug problems bring about in sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and highlights the positive effect of an 'Family Support Programme'.

Who Should Attend

All practitioners in health, social care, probation, police, drugs, alcohol and mental health settings.

Learning Objectives

• Physical and psychological effects on family members
• Family conflict between parents and the problem-drug-using child and their brothers and sisters
• Relationship breakdown
• Positive effects of 'Family Support Programmes'
• Anger, sadness, anxiety, shame, social isolation and loss as parents
• Children who deliberately introduce their younger brothers and sisters to drug use
• Likelihood of younger brothers and sisters using drugs and developing drug problems

This course is mapped to the relevant DANOS units. To enrol for this course, please fill in and return the TRR Booking Form.