Lindsey Chadwick, MA, LPC and Kathleen Rhodes, MA, LPCC from Betty Ford Children's Program present Whole Family Healing: Building Resilience in Children and their Caregivers.
If addiction is a family disease, then recovery is a family solution. In order for kids and their loved ones to have the best chance at healing and changing the family legacy of multi-generational addiction, each person deserves the opportunity to recover and discover a new, more fulfilling way of life. For children, who are oftentimes the last to receive help, recovery includes developmentally appropriate education, community support, and the opportunity to be a kid.
Research says that 75% of people in treatment, also experienced a loved one’s substance use. Parenting in Recovery skills and tools can help adults provide their children with a level of care and connection they may not have received as a child. Parents and caregivers need and deserve education and support throughout their recovery in order to be able to provide these essential opportunities for their children. Increased parenting skills also provides people in early recovery with the tools they need to navigate the difficult transitions and situations ahead of them. Families must work together to trust, talk, and feel so they can truly thrive. This work puts parents on the front lines of prevention.
Learning objectives:
1. Attendees will understand the ways in which increased parenting support during treatment and early recovery can act as relapse prevention.
2. Attendees will learn tools to help minimize the guilt and shame parents in recovery often feel.
3. Attendees will gain knowledge of three simple ways they can support whole family resilience through a focus on parenting.
Lindsey Chadwick, MA, LPC, has worked for the Betty Ford Center Children’s Program in Aurora, Colorado since 2008. She began working at the Betty Ford Center after completing her undergraduate degree in Sociology at Colorado State University. She completed her master’s degree in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Colorado Denver in 2013. Lindsey has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families in individual and group settings.
Kathleen Rhodes, MA, LPCC, began working with the Betty Ford Center Children’s Program in 2012. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services with a concentration in High Risk Youth Studies from Metropolitan State University in 2013. She also completed a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado, Denver in 2017. Her previous experience in supporting children and families includes 9 years of coaching and teaching at various levels.
