Are you a parent who is navigating through your adolescent’s addiction? Or, are you wanting to learn how to prevent addiction within your family? If you are searching for the right questions to be asking and how to have the healthy, safe, and validating conversations with your children, this episode is for you. Our guest this week helps guide us through the process of healthy conversations and how to develop strong relationships with your family in order to stay proactive in both addiction recovery and addiction prevention.
In this week’s episode, we are talking with Dr. Crystal Collier, PhD, LPC-S. Crystal is a therapist, researcher, and educator who has been working with adolescents and adults suffering from mental illness, behavior disorders, and substance abuse since 1991.
Crystal shares with us her personal recovery journey and how she has since created a comprehensive prevention model to teach the neurodevelopmental effects of risky behavior to children, teens, and parents which was selected for the 2015 Prevention and Education Commendation from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. In this episode, we learn how families can have the hard conversations with their adolescent children, why communication is key to building strong relationships, and what it means to create healthy and safe boundaries and family values.
Join us this week as we learn how Dr. Crystal Collier was able to become free from a cocaine addiction at the age of 21 and how she is now helping adolescents and their families with their addiction recovery.
Topics Discussed
- What makes a good prevention program
- How parents can be proactive in their family’s prevention
- Knowing what a secure attachment is & how to manifest it in parent skills
- Why communication is key to affirming & validating conversations with adolescents
- How to create authoritative parenting
- Creating boundaries and values for family code
- Why family dinners can decrease high risk behavior
- How to know if you should incorporate random drug testing in your family
- The importance of role playing
- Why you need to build a strong family relationship
- Understanding how addiction affects the neurons within our brains
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Connect with Crystal Collier, PhD, LPC-S online
- Website: https://drcrystalcollier.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drcrystalcollier/
Contact Crystal Collier, PhD, LPC-S
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (713) 254-9719
Additional Resources
- The NeuroWheresAbout Guide book http://neurowhereaboutsguide.com
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