Therapeutic Support Services for Families Affected by Parental Substance Misuse
"Explore how Pharos provides holistic therapeutic support to children and families impacted by parental substance misuse. Services include promoting awareness, improving family functioning, and aiding in recovery processes."
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What is Pharos? Pharos provides a therapeutic support service to children, families affected by parental substance misuse, and referred by either Social Services or Adult Substance Misuse Treatment Services parents and
Aims of the Pharos Service Promote awareness of the impact of substance misuse on the family, parenting and children Assist parents to improve family functioning and parenting capacity Enable children to benefit from a positive home, education and community life Enable children to develop resilience and stay safe within a stable home environment Support parents in recovery process Facilitate families access to formal and informal support networks
What we offer: Our interventions are holistic, and strengths based, underpinned by Systemic Family Therapy and also Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma Informed Practice. We adopt a multi-agency, inter -disciplinary approach. Work includes Individual work with parents and other care givers. Direct therapeutic work with children. Systemic Family work. Parenting support/therapeutic parenting Recovery support for parents. Group work with children; and Consultation to other professionals and agencies.
Work With Children Make sense of and process difficult experiences Express thoughts, feelings, fears, anxieties Opportunity to be heard and ask questions Affirmation Develop understanding of substance misuse and impacts on themselves, their parents, their family Develop understanding of treatment and recovery process Understand living circumstances/care arrangements/ professional involvement Positive coping strategies and support networks Contact issues
Work With Children (contd ) Sharing important messages e.g. that they have not caused the problems in their family; You are not responsible for getting your parents to stop using substances Parents need to get help from others to stop using drugs or alcohol: it s ok to love their parent but not like the choices they make; their parent s difficulties with alcohol/drugs is not a reflection on them and does not mean their parent doesn t love/care about them:
PHA Drug and Alcohol Services Summary Report IMT 2019/20 Parental Substance Misuse
References Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) (2007) Hidden Harm three years on: Realities, challenges and opportunities Adamson, J and Templeton, L (2012) Silent Voices: Supporting children and young people affected by parental substance misuse. London: Office of the Children s Commissioner. Drugs and Alcohol Northern Ireland resource directory Parental substance misuse: learning guide (NSPCC, 2020) Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents (eLearning, OpenLearn) Parents with alcohol and drug problems: support resources (Public Health England, 2021) Ed Sipler- Building Children s Developing Brain 2021 Publications | Department of Health (health-ni.gov.uk)
Pharos Service Cathal Mullan 23 Windsor Avenue Belfast BT9 6EE Tel: 028 90 663470 Email: cathal.mullan@barnardos.org.uk Pharos@barnardos.org.uk Website: www.barnardos.org.uk/pharos
