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Parent training skills and methadone maintenance: clinical opportunities and challenges
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posted on 2000-07-01, 00:00 authored by S Dawe, P H Harnett, Petra StaigerPetra Staiger, M R DaddsChildren raised in substance abusing families show high rates of behavioural and emotional problems, in particular oppositional, defiant and non-compliant behaviours. While a range of social and individual factors correlate with poor parenting, it is often the quality of the parent-child relationship that mediates the effects of most other risk factors on child development. By addressing this relationship using behavioural family interventions, child behaviour problems have been reduced in multiple problem families. However, there has been little attempt to systematically evaluate such programs in substance abusing families. It is argued that methadone replacement programs provide a window of opportunity to deliver well-validated parent training programs that enhance the quality of parent-child relations. However, it is likely that such programs would need to be medium to long term and address issues beyond parent child relationships. How such interventions may be delivered and evaluated is discussed.
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Drug and alcohol dependenceVolume
60Issue
1Pagination
1 - 11Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0376-8716Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2000, Elsevier Science Ireland LtdUsage metrics
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