NCJ Number
157552
Date Published
1993
Length
63 pages
Annotation
This curriculum focuses specifically on the needs of children from substance abusive families and presents a program to allow them to develop the attitudes and skills necessary to participate in healthy relationships, relieve their burdens of misplaced guilt, develop problem-solving techniques, and foster positive self- images.
Abstract
Each of the seven lessons presented here can be adapted for students through the sixth grade. The first lesson should be presented to all students at the end of a general drug prevention unit, in order to allow children the chance to recognize if they live in a substance abusing family. The subsequent six lessons should be taught to those self-identified students; they focus on choices, feelings, defense mechanisms, chemically dependent family structures, coping, and the celebration of growth. Each lesson plan includes main and secondary objectives, materials, procedures, and a lesson conclusion. 3 appendixes