Parental Substance Misuse e-learning course

Published: 2011 | Free to use | Learning Management System compatible

This free course explores parental substance misuse, its effects on children and parenting capacity and the implications for social work practitioners.

This e-learning resource is targeted at children’s social care workers to help them work more confidently with families where parents are misusing drugs.

These resources might also be useful for primary care services staff (GPs, health visitors, midwives), children’s centre staff and students.

Course modules

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• Module 1: Understanding substance misuse Open

  

  This module provides an introduction to the different types of substances commonly misused and the effects that these may have on the people taking them.

  On completion of this learning module you will be able to:

  • be familiar with working definitions of substance use and misuse 
    
  • know about the substances that are most commonly misused, and the three different levels of use
    
  • recognise when someone may have a substance misuse problem
    
  • understand how different substances might affect a person's behaviour
    
  • identify the stages involved in changing substance misusing behaviour
    
  • consider the range of treatment options and support available to substance misusing adults
    
  • begin to think about the relationship between an individual user and their family/community.

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• Module 2: Implications for children’s social work practice Open

  

  This module explores how parenting capacity may be compromised and how children may be affected by parental substance misuse.

  On completion of this learning module you will be able to:

  • understand how children may be affected by parental substance misuse
    
  • understand how parenting capacity may be compromised by substance misuse
    
  • know about relevant research 
    
  • have some insight into the wishes and feelings of affected families
    
  • approach assessments with greater confidence.

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• Module 3: Supporting people who experience abuse Open

  

  This module explores the implications that parental substance misuse has for social work practice and to recognise when an assessment is needed.

  On completion of this learning module you will be able to:

  • recognise when an assessment is needed, and at which level
    
  • have greater confidence in your ability to discuss substance misuse with family members 
    
  • identify different resources that will support the assessment process
    
  • make balanced judgements about any action necessary to safeguard and promote children's welfare
    
  • understand the ongoing support needs of children, whether at home or in alternative care
    
  • identify the roles and responsibilities of others within the professional network.

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Course details

• Who they are suitable for Open

  This e-learning resource is targeted at children’s social care workers to help them work more confidently with families where parents are misusing drugs.

  These resources might also be useful for primary care services staff (GPs, health visitors, midwives), children’s centre staff and students.

  The e-learning resource can be integrated into the higher education social work curriculum either as directed or self-directed study.

• Terms of useOpen

  All material in these resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated. Use of these resources, and import of the resources into Learning Management Systems for educational purposes is freely permitted, but commercial use of any of SCIE’s learning resources is not authorised unless permission is first obtained in writing.

  Please note these courses are provided free of charge on an ‘as seen’ basis. Although SCIE’s courses have been used over many years with almost no reported problems, SCIE cannot provide technical support for their implementation or to investigate or fix any reported technical problems, nor does it warrant that they are fully compliant with all or any technical platform.

  Any known issue with an individual course is noted on the opening page of that course.

  This course was developed using a technology called Adobe Flash, which is not compatible with any Apple/Android platform, and may not work on any mobile device.

• Learning Management System compatibleOpen

  This course is fully SCORM compliant. That means they can be loaded into a Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), such as WebCT, Blackboard or Moodle, and accessed locally.

  Please note that this course was not designed to export any scores or track progress throughout the resource. Therefore, this course can be freely accessed by users, but there will be no tracking or grading functionality.

  To obtain the SCORM-compliant version of this course, please contact us.