A Naturalistic Evaluation of a Group Intervention for Parents of Youth with Substance Use Disorders
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Parents of youth with substance use disorders (SUDs) often play a vital role in successful treatment, yet little is known about interventions designed to help them cope with the stress of this role, especially as delivered in real-world settings. Evaluations of such interventions could potentially inform adaptations to enhance their clinical utility. Parents of youth with SUDs attending a clinician-led group based on the CRAFT model completed measures at intake, 4- and 8-weeks. Parents (n = 545) attended an average of 3.7 sessions; 12% completed all 8 weeks. Analysis of demographic predictors of retention indicated that older parents attended more sessions on average. Overall stress did not change across time points (p > .05). However, parents reported improvement in parent empowerment as measured by the Parent Empowerment Scale, a novel measure of parent empowerment in coping with their child’s SUD (p < .001). Clinician led evidence-informed group services may improve parents’ perceived ability to help their child with their SUD. Low retention rates highlight the need to better understand the factors contributing to retention, and the potential value of adaptations to shorten the intervention. Programs serving youth with SUDs may wish to consider integrating such group services to support parents.
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CRAFT has been shown to improve the loved ones' perceived empowerment.
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From Initial insights from a quality improvement initiative to develop an evidence-informed young adult substance use program (2022) · cites this paper as [62]
The Results (Parent Empowerment) report significant improvements in perceived empowerment among parents attending an eight-week CRAFT-informed group. The Limitations clarify that this was an adapted intervention for parents of youth with substance use disorders and, without a comparison group, the study cannot establish that CRAFT caused the improvement or generalize it to loved ones more broadly. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Ameral, V., Yule, A., McKowen, J., Bergman, B. G., Nargiso, J., & Kelly, J. F.
- Affiliations
- Boston University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ameral, Victoria
- Venue
- Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-07-01
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 379-394
- ISSN
- 0734-7324 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-4538
- PMC
- PMC7451897
- OpenAlex
- W2963265063
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 0.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K23AA025707, K24AA022136)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (5K12DA000357)
- Office of Academic Affiliations, Department of Veterans Affairs (Interprofessional Advanced Addiction Fellowship)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- group intervention, parental empowerment, parental stress, intervention retention, adolescent substance use disorders, naturalistic assessment
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