Research & Evaluation
The Benefits of the Family Table
American College of Pediatricians-February 2021
The custom of regularly eating together as a family is common to most cultures. There are proven benefits to every member when mealtime is a family affair. Families today, however, are less likely to gather at meal times than in the past. Given the protective factors that are conveyed to children and adolescents, pediatricians should encourage parents to make every effort to regularly gather around the “Family Table” for meals.
A Quarter of Children Have a Parent With Substance Use Disorder, a Study Finds
By Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR
Published May 13, 2025
Nearly 19 million children in the United States have at least one parent with a substance use disorder, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. And a significant number of those children have a parent whose addiction is moderate or severe as opposed to mild, the study finds…
Family-Based Prevention Research
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study is an ongoing collaborative research between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente, Robert F. Anda, MD, MS, and Vincent J. Felitti, MD. Over 17,000 Kaiser patients participating reveal staggering proof of the health, social, and…
Children Exposed to Alcohol, Cannabis,
Nicotine and other Substances In-Utero
It’s important to recognize that prenatal substance exposure not only influences the fetus’s growth and development during pregnancy but can also have lifelong effects. These effects can inevitably impact the ability to function in classroom, social, or family settings.
A Family-Centered Approach as Prevention for Substance Abuse
Counselor Magazine, Jan/Feb 2016
For centuries we have known the impact of alcoholism and drug addiction on children and families. Today parental substance abuse commonly involves alcohol and other drugs, as well as mental health problems, poverty, and violence. Addiction often runs in families, from generation…
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 2018
Celebrating Families! (CF!) is a manualized family-centered program focused on the goal of breaking the cycle of generational substance use disorders (SUDs). It is one of the few evidence-based family-focused practices listed on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National…
Family Skills Training Programs for Family Drug Court; Drug Court Review:
National Drug Court Resource Center
The societal burden of child abuse is exorbitant and it is of vital importance to find effective interventions for family drug courts to prevent its recurrence. Family skills training programs result in decreased child abuse, decreased time children spend in foster care, substance abuse intervention for parents and…
Family-Centered Interventions for Substance Abuse in Hispanic Communities;
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2013
Treatment programs geared toward Hispanic culture are extremely rare, and programs involving the entire Hispanic family are virtually nonexistent. Two prospective studies test the hypothesis that a family-centered intervention is as effective with Hispanic families as it is with non-Hispanic families…
