Welcome to the Parenting Well Podcast with the Parent Engagement Network! I am Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host. This podcast provides perspectives on parenting, so that you can fill your well with information, strategies, and resources that help you raise healthy, happy humans. Filling your well leaves you engaged, educated and empowered to support your children in being strong, resourceful, confident and resilient in the face of life’s challenges and adventures. Let’s fill that well!
Episodes
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Trina Faatz. Trina is an advocate for child welfare and family wholeness. She is certified as a Peer Recovery Coach to work with parents and teens struggling with the challenges of substance use. Now, as the facilitator of the Boulder County Substance Advisory Group, and leader of young people in recovery panels, she brings a personal and humane approach to intervention and hope.
In today’s show, Trina will talk about the challenges young people face and how a cutting-edge program called CRAFT is helping parents navigate substance use in today’s world. Specifically, we will discuss:
- The challenges young people face when it comes to substance use
- How social media can have positive and negative impacts on substance use
- Fentanyl
- Substance use and brain development
- Recognizing substance use in your child
- Skill building: understanding triggers, communicating, establishing rewards/consequences, and strengthening the parent-child relationship
- A parent’s role in increasing or decreasing a child’s substance use
- Resource: Chart: Understanding Substance Use Experimentation
- Resource: Natural Highs: Healthy Alternatives to Drugs & Alcohol
- Resource: The CRAFT Program: Community Reinforcement and Family Training
- Resource: The Effekt Training: To increase parents’ attitudes, norm-setting and monitoring about alcohol
- Resource: Reach Out for Change – CRAFT Classes
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Avani Dilger, MEd, MA, LPC, CACIII. Avani is the founder and executive director of Natural Highs: Healthy Alternatives to Drug & Alcohol Use. She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Addiction Counselor, a Somatic Psychotherapist, and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She specializes in substance abuse treatment with adults, teens-at-risk, and their families.
In today’s show, Avani shares her expertise around substance use, addiction, brain science and healthy alternatives for youth. Specifically, we will discuss:
- Alternative forms of treatment for substance use and addiction
- Why some people become addicted to substances and others do not
- Brain science
- Trauma and its relationship with addiction
- Treatments for symptoms of trauma that can lead to addiction
- The Icelandic Model
- Maintaining a relationship with your kids
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Monday Nov 04, 2019
I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL guest is Dr. Rieder. He is a philosopher by training, bioethicist by profession, communicator by passion, and author of the book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids.” In Pain describes Dr. Rieder's sudden and intimate run-in with the health care system that left him dependent on oxycodone. In this podcast, we discuss:
- The nuances of pain
- Prescribing opioids for trauma, post-surgical pain, and long-term pain
- Opioid tolerance, dependence and addiction
- Naloxone
- Drug use and the developing brain
- How parents can advocate for their child if opioids are prescribed
- Parenting and building protective factors
- The moral obligation of the health care system to both manage pain and reduce harm.