Course Description

This is a peer-reviewed article that reviews scientific research on how to promote health development among children with a caregiver who has a substance use disorder. The article provides information on the risks of negative developmental outcomes for children with a caregiver who has a substance use disorder and evidence-based interventions and policies that have been shown to ameliorate these risks and promote positive developmental trajectories.  
*There are no conflicts of interest to report.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the specific mechanisms through which caregiver substance use disorder leads to poor developmental outcomes in children.

  • Recognize children at elevated risk across clinical presentations, including cases where parental substance use is not the presenting concern.

  • Apply evidence-based programs shown to disrupt negative developmental trajectories in children of substance-dependent caregivers.

  • Describe evidence-based policies that support healthy development for this population.

  • Integrate prevention science frameworks into your treatment planning when substance use disorder affects the family system.

Course Curriculum

1 Continuing Education Credit

  1. Course Introduction

  2. Module One: Lesson

  3. Module One: Assessment

  4. Course Conclusion

Course Highlights

  • 1 Continuing Education Credits
  • 1 Module Course & Assessment
  • $36.00 to $40.00

Instructor(s)

Associate Professor of Psychology Sharon Kingston, Ph.D.

Sharon Kingston, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at Dickinson College. She received her doctorate degree in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island. As a doctoral student, Dr. Kingston worked on federally funded grants to provide training, technical assistance and evaluation of state-wide effort to support community substance abuse prevention coalitions. Prior to coming to Dickinson College she worked as an Associate Research Scientist and T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Prevention Science at the NYU Child Study Center. Her research focuses on neighborhood effects on individual and family well-being in high-risk urban neighborhoods, prevention and health promotion in for low-income communities and high-risk families and factors related to early initiation of substance use among children and adolescents.

President Diana Fishbein, Ph.D.

Diana “Denni” Fishbein, PhD, is a Nova Scholar at the Nova Institute for Health, Founder and President of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC), Senior Scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Part-Time Research Faculty at Penn State University. She has conducted research in substance use and addiction for 40 years and, through NPSC, advises federal and state substance use prevention policies.

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