2034-18: Coaching Families of Teens with Co-Occurring Disorders

This session introduces a manualized family coaching group for adults who parent young people with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Structural family systems grounds family training in motivational interviewing, CBT skills, and use of family resources as incentives to influence youth behaviors and are presented for discussion.

Presenter:  Susan E. Caverly, ARNP, PhD, BC

Disclosures:  The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  40 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Describe three strategies of an alternative approach to family intervention designed to meet the needs of families and youth who have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Keywords:  Parent Coaching, Addictions, Adolescent

Continuing Nursing Education:
0.5 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 32nd Annual Conference
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, October 25, 2018
12:15pm - 1:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2022