Family Resources for Parents

Delivered in four, 90-minute sessions, this skill-building workshop helps family members learn how to set healthy boundaries, communicate effectively with one another, clarify roles and effectively support their loved one in recovery. We offer two different workshops. Register Now

This two-hour virtual orientation provides your family with helpful information and supportive resources—regardless of whether your loved one is in active addiction, seeking treatment, involved in some level of drug or alcohol counseling, or in recovery. Orientation incorporates insights on the effects of addiction and mental health issues on families, peer discussion and support, identification of healthy coping skills, Q&A time with family counselors, and an overview of services available to families. Register Now

Available in Español. Also available for Native Americans.

In-person family workshops are offered near locations in Center City and Plymouth, Minnesota; Rancho Mirage, California; and Portland (Newberg), Oregon.

Family Program - National Center for Teens and Young Adults, Plymouth, MN
     • One-Day Workshop

Family Program - Center City, MN
     • One-Day Workshop

Family Program - Betty Ford Center, Rancho Mirage, CA
     • One-Day Workshop
     • Three-Day Workshop

Family Program - Portland (Newberg), OR
     • Three-Day Workshop

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
Lisa Damour Ph.D.

As teens contend with with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about their own mental health, it’s easy for them—and their parents—to feel anxious and overwhelmed. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Daniel J. Siegel MD

If parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another.

The Beyond Addiction Workbook for Family and Friends
Evidence-Based Skills to Help a Loved One Make Positive Change
Jeffrey Foote, Kenneth Carpenter, Carrie Wilkens

This healing and supportive workbook offers practical, evidence-based skills to help you address substance use or other compulsive behaviors with your loved one in a productive way—without creating conflict.

Recovering My Kid
Parenting Young Adults in Treatment and Beyond
Joseph Lee, M.D. 

National expert Dr. Joseph Lee explains the nature of youth addiction and treatment, and how families can create a safe and supportive environment for their loved ones during treatment and throughout their recovery.

Get Your Loved One Sober
Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening
Dr. Robert Meyers and Dr. Brenda Wolfe

Co-author Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) both improve the quality of their lives and to learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers.

The Parent’s 20 Minute Guide
A Guide for Parents about How to Help Their Children Change Their Substance Use
The Center for Motivation and Change

The 20 Minute Guide pulls from Motivational Interviewing (MI), CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training), Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to give family members the best tools to help a loved one change their substance use while staying connected and using the power of science and kindness.

Beyond Addiction
How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, Nicole Kosanke, and Stephanie Higgs

Goes beyond the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help someone change.

Addict in the Family
Beverly Conyers

Provides parents and other family members faced with the reality of a loved one's addiction with solid, actionable advice and information about what helps and what doesn't—and how to care for themselves.

Tending Dandelions
Honest Meditations for Mothers with Addicted Children
Sandra Swenson

By sharing the realities we never expected our families to face, mothers of addicted children support each other through experiences that can only be feared and imagined by others. From our shared struggles emerge opportunities for personal growth. Tending Dandelions is a vital source of wisdom, support, and strength that helps us begin our own journey of recovery.

Why Don’t They JUST QUIT?
Joe Herzanek

Watching a loved one immersed in an intense battle with alcohol and drug abuse may be the most difficult, complex and harrowing experience you'll ever have. This book offers a message of hope to families and friends, giving practical solutions so they can help anyone struggling with addiction to begin the road to recovery.

At Wit’s End
What You Need to Know When a Loved One is Diagnosed with Addiction and Mental Illness
Jeff Jay and Jerry Boriskin

Families at wit's end about a loved one's co-occurring psychiatric and addictive problems will find vital information—and inspiration— in this important guide. As the authors explain, when psychiatric and addictive disorders travel together, they cause confusion among family members and even misdiagnoses for patients.

Parents to PhDs
Cathy Taughinbaugh

Includes 28 interviews with people who share heartache, wisdom, and healing from first-hand experience with substance use disorder.

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