Parenting Matters: Raising Healthy Teens During a National Drug Crisis

Adolescent development, learning, and behaviors are influenced by many factors. Join Robert Miranda, Jr., PhD, ABPP, for this free, virtual workshop as he reviews the prevalence and trends of adolescent cannabis and other substance use. He will describe risk factors that heighten risk for alcohol and other drug-related issues for youth. He will also describe how parents and other caregivers can support their children when it comes to these risks. Understanding how teens become involved in substance use helps parents and other adults better support teens with making healthy choices.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the signs and symptoms of cannabis and other drug use in the context of adolescence and understand the continuum of substance use disorder severity.
2. Explain why adolescence is a critical period for the development of substance use disorders.
3. Identify what works when it comes to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance use. Understand the continuum of clinical care and recognize how to match symptom severity with the appropriate service level.

Speaker

Dr. Robert Miranda is a board-certified clinical psychologist who has committed his career as a clinician scientist to advance our understanding of how substance-related problems develop during adolescence and improve innovative therapeutics to treat youth during the early stages of addiction.

Dr. Miranda directs a federally funded research program on the treatment of young people with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, with a particular focus on testing new interventions. He has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, or mentor on nearly 50 federally funded research projects, and has developed several novel assessment and intervention approaches for adolescents with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. 

In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Miranda founded and directs the intensive adolescent substance abuse treatment program (Vista) at Bradley Hospital. The program is the premier teenage substance use treatment service and training clinic in the region, and it recently received recognition as a model treatment program for youth with co-occurring disorders by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Register

This event is free and open to the public. (Continuing Education Units are available for social workers and licensed mental health counselors for $10).

Register online

The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants.

For more information, please contact Victoria Lugo at [email protected] or 401-444-8076.