Future Thinking to Improve Parent-Child Relationships

Launched by HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · Jul 19, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

Parents with substance use disorders (SUD) are significantly more likely to engage in harsh parenting practices, including spanking, hitting, and belittling their children, than parents without SUD. Punitive physical and emotional discipline is, in turn, associated with increased rates of child maltreatment and the subsequent intergenerational transmission of substance use disorders. Parents in residential substance use treatment facilities are among those at highest risk for perpetrating harsh and abusive parenting; yet most behaviorally based parenting interventions available within inpat...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Be the parent of a child between the ages of 6-10
• • 2. Willing to participate in the study
• • 3. Able to participate in written assessments and an intervention conducted in English
• • 4. Are receiving services at Flint or Saginaw Odyssey House ("Odyssey House")
• • 5. Be willing to receive check-ins regarding intervention content over the two weeks following the intervention
• • 6. Can legally consent for the child to take part in the study and have regular contact with their child
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Self-disclosed active suicidality/homicidality
• • 2. Self-disclosed current bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or psychosis
• • 3. Study enrollment with more than 1 child