coping with substance

for professionals:

working with affected families

ATTITUDES

Read through the statements below to explore your attitudes and values about parental substance abuse. There are no right or wrong answers, just your own opinions. Whatever your opinion, recognize that your attitudes and values will affect the work that you do with children and families - even when you try to keep them under wraps.

A parent who abuse alcohol or other drugs should not have custody of their children.

Agree Disagree

It is impossible to work with a parent who comes to appointments drunk or high.

Agree Disagree

It is essential for a parent in a drug treatment program to focus on herself as an individual before thinking about her role as a parent.

Agree Disagree

Parents with substance abuse problems should use outpatient treatment programs so they can stay with their children.

Agree Disagree

Some people who are good parents use drugs.

Agree Disagree

Most drug users who stop eventually relapse.

Agree Disagree

If a parent is able to stop using drugs, the children will stop suffering as well.

Agree Disagree

If a parent really loves his children, he will find a way to stop drinking or using drugs.

Agree Disagree

Some people who are good parents drink heavily.

Agree Disagree

The goal of child welfare is to separate children and parents.

Agree Disagree

It is impossible to know when a child is living with a substance abusing parent.

Agree Disagree

There is nothing I can do to help a child of an alcoholic or substance abuser unless the parent stops drinking or using.

Agree Disagree

Children who were prenatally exposed to drugs during pregnancy will be a problem in the classroom.

Agree Disagree

Children who grow up with a parent with an alcohol or other drug problem are damaged.

Agree Disagree

A child of an alcoholic is not as bad off as a child of a parent addicted to drugs other than alcohol.

Agree Disagree