NCJ Number
174482
Journal
Substance Use and Misuse Volume: 32 Issue: 6 Dated: 1997 Pages: 699-721
Date Published
1998
Length
23 pages
Annotation
Parents in methadone treatment were offered an experimental intervention, Focus on Families, designed to risk their relapse and their children's risk of drug use; these parents were compared with parents who did not receive this intervention.
Abstract
The participants included 82 parents in the experimental group and 62 parents in the control group. The parents were randomly assigned after volunteering to take part and agreeing on random assignment. The experimentally assigned parents participated in systematic group training in relapse prevention and parenting skills and received home-based case management services. Comparisons of these parents with a control group revealed that the parents in the experimental group held more family meetings to discuss family fun, displayed stronger refusal/relapse coping skills, demonstrated a stronger sense of self-efficacy in role-play situations, and had lower levels of opiate use than did the control participants. However, no significant differences occurred in family bonding, family conflict, or other measures of drug use. Tables, appended information about the Focus on Families instruments, author biographies and photographs, 60 references