Webinar: Collateral Damage: The Family Experience of Substance Use Disorder, July 20, 2022
This PCSS webinar will explore the impact on families, how trauma causes similar changes in the brain that mirror cravings in their loved ones and how with education, support and self-care families can be an important source of strength and a resource to those with a substance use disorder. Educational objectives of this event include:
- Learn how the personal experience of families are severely impacted by the stress and trauma and they are often left feeling left out of the treatment and recovery process.
- Learn how to identify the impact on families and how trauma causes similar changes in the brain that mirror cravings in their loved ones
- Learn how to demonstrate how education, support and self-care families can be an important source of strength and a resource to those with a substance use disorder.
- Learn how to recommend action steps that can be taken to work with families supporting a loved one with substance use disorder