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Addiction is a family disease.

Caron Treatment Centers’ ground-breaking podcast brings parent support meetings to family members seeking honesty, hope and compassion.

This ongoing series features parents sharing how they are coping with the challenges of parenting a child with Substance Use Disorder and other mental health conditions. The group includes mothers and fathers, some in recovery, married and not, with teenage to adult children.

Dec 14, 2022

The subject for this Parent Support Group meeting is TRIGGERS.  Mothers and fathers of children with a substance use disorder talk candidly about what sets them off and how they manage those unexpected reactions. Caron Treatment Centers’ Lead Family Therapist Vanessa Sommer joins the meetings. 

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Dec 14, 2022

Caron Treatment Centers’ Lead Family Therapist, answers questions about educating parents, the potential benefits of participating in family therapy, and how to deal with emotional triggers.

 

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The Parent-to-Parent Podcasts are provided as a service to you from other parents and do not represent...


Nov 7, 2022

During this Parent Support Group meeting, the subject is SILVER LININGS. The Moms and Dads, some in recovery themselves, discuss if and how the experiences of parenting a child with a substance use disorder have also resulted in surprisingly positive outcomes. Caron Treatment Centers’ Psychologist, Dr. Christopher...


Nov 7, 2022

Caron Treatment Centers’ Clinical Supervisor of Teen and Young Adult Male Services answers questions about the initial challenges for parents when they seek treatment for their children; whether an opioid addiction is more difficult to address than other substance use disorders; and how to keep a watchful eye that...


Oct 3, 2022

This Parent Support Group meeting explores the interconnected feelings of shame and pride in the journey of parenting a child with a substance use disorder or other mental health condition. Longtime clinician Eric Webber, the Senior Clinician for Specialty Services at Caron Treatment Centers, joins the mothers and...