Drug and alcohol addiction and abuse. Recognition. Prevention. Treatment
20/20 Parenting. Recognizing and mitigating early vulnerabilities and risk factors.
Topics Wish List
Our primary focus is on earlier recognition, prevention, and effective treatment of the emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, familial, and social vulnerabilities that can undermine a child’s long-term abilities for maintaining strong self-esteem and sound decision-making, in turn, potentially leading to substance abuse/addiction. Therefore, the Core, Prevention Solutions section does not include articles on dealing with drug and alcohol misuse and abuse more advanced than early experimentation, suspected or known.
Our secondary focus is on later prevention and effective treatment, included under the Health Info > Drugs & Alcohol section (also including early experimentation).
Special Requests from Parents – Age Specific Parenting Strategies
- How to Communicate when they are hanging out with Drug/Alcohol Users
- How to Handle: “Everybody Else is Doing It!”
- How to Guide them in Responding to Authority Figures They Don’t Like
- How and When to Educate your Child about Drugs and Alcohol (Older Child or younger)
- Creative Natural Consequences for Your Pre-teen/Teen
- How to Respond to Discrimination
- How to Recognize and Help Your Child’s Low Self Esteem
Early Prevention Solutions – Parenting Strategies, Age-Specific (where possible)
- Handling Difficult Behavior
- Building Child Communication Skills
- Conflict Resolution
- Effective Guidance
- Family Strength, Stability
- Recognizing Self-esteem Disguises
- Self-esteem Building, Strengthening
- Effectively Handling Child Losses, Traumas
- Emotional Intelligence Building
- Anger Management
- Suicide Prevention
- Brain and Body Health for Optimal Function
- Preventing Self-esteem Issues with Injury, Illness, or Disability
- Brain Injury Prevention, Recognition, Mitigation
- Genetics: Determining and Handling the Risk for Future Addiction
- Guiding Healthy Thought Processing
- Stress Prevention and Reduction
- Bullying/Bullied
- Modeling
- Knowledge Building
- Social Skills Building
- Nurturing Spirituality - Positive Perspectives
Health Info – Educational
About Addiction (general articles and latest science)
Drugs & Alcohol Section
– Early Intervention articles on how to recognize secretive experimentation, talk to an experimenting child to influence cessation, guide healthier coping methods, how to know when to get professional help etc. Please address any difference in parenting strategy for the older child, pre-teen AND teenager within your article if applicable.
– Later Intervention articles on treatment options/procedures, what a parent can do to influence a youth’s cooperation for treatment, how to work with health authorities, how parents need to take care of themselves…
- Drugs & Alcohol page: general articles
- Crystal Meth, Inhalants, Marijuana, Alcohol, Tobacco, Ecstasy, Date Rape, Cocaine, Heroin, Steroids, Prescription, Over the Counter
Addictive Activities
- Internet, Gambling, others: early symptoms, known and suspected causes, treatments, parent strategies, support organizations
Potential Vulnerabilities (conditions that ineffectively handled can lead to undermined self esteem/decision-making)
- Child Development articles on what to reasonably expect of a child regarding brain development, and physical, emotional, and social abilities. Also, how a stage can be arrested or delayed, what long-term effects may result, and what to do to facilitate catching up.
- Mental Conditions (incl. those easily confused with each other): known and suspected causes, early/later symptoms,
diagnostic methods, treatments for each condition below:
Traumatic Brain Injury, ADD/ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Auditory Processing Disorder, Fetal Alcohol, Autism, Aspergers, Retts, Tourette's, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, Anxiety... - Physical Conditions: known and suspected causes, early/later symptoms, diagnostic methods, treatments for each condition below:
Genetics/Addiction, Nutritional Deficiencies (brain development), Allergies, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Obesity, Childhood Diabetes...
Health Support
– Overview of Field philosophy, diagnostic/treatment protocols, conditions treated/prevented, latest advancements
Western Medicine
- Counselling/Psychology, Neuropsychology, other specialties applicable to the conditions above including those not commonly known
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
- Naturopathy, Chiropractic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Massage, Biofeedback, Art, Music, Movement, and Play Therapies.
Please feel free to suggest others.
