[Family-focused treatment approaches for drug-addicted parents].

Background: In Germany 1.5-2.75 million children live in families affected by substance use disorders.

Evaluation of a family-oriented parenting intervention for methamphetamine-involved mothers and fathers - The SHIFT Parent Training.

Introduction: A large number of people who use crystal methamphetamine in Germany are parents of young children. In the context of methamphetamine use, family situations and parenting are frequently impacted, and children are at risk of developing behavioral or emotional difficulties. SHIFT Parent Training was developed as a parenting intervention targeted specifically to the needs of methamphetamine-involved parents.

Evaluation of the mindfulness-augmented "Trampoline" programme - a German prevention programme for children from substance-involved families tested in a cluster-randomised trial.

Background: Children of substance-abusing parents are at a substantial risk of developing substance-use and other mental disorders. Children involved in substance abuse - not diagnosed with substance-use problems but integrated in psychiatric treatment or youth welfare services - constitute a particular high-risk group that is in need of substance use prevention. Emerging evidence indicates that self-regulatory determinants of substance use and other mental disorders, particularly stress reactivity, are modifiable by mindfulness-based interventions, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Methamphetamine Use in German Families: Parental Substance Use, Parent-Child Interaction and Risks for Children Involved.

Background: With an immense increase in methamphetamine use in Germany in the past decade, large sections of the drug-using community have been identified as parents of young children.

Objective: With the fast-emerging issue of psychosocial and familial consequences of methamphetamine use, this study focused on gaining an insight into substance use, parenthood, and parenting by German methamphetamine users, with special emphasis on the psychological outcomes for the children involved.

Methods: We conducted 24 qualitative interviews with parents (16 mothers and eight fathers), who were in outpatient treatment for their Crystal Meth use and were currently abstinent from using drugs.

Selective prevention programs for children from substance-affected families: a comprehensive systematic review.

Children from substance-affected families show an elevated risk for developing own substance-related or other mental disorders. Therefore, they are an important target group for preventive efforts. So far, such programs for children of substance-involved parents have not been reviewed together.

Targeting children of substance-using parents with the community-based group intervention TRAMPOLINE: a randomised controlled trial--design, evaluation, recruitment issues.

Background: Children of substance-abusing parents are at risk for developing psychosocial development problems. In Germany it is estimated that approx. 2.

Health-related lifestyle, physical and mental health in children of alcoholic parents.

Aim: To identify potential differences between children of alcoholics (COAs) and controls in their health-related lifestyle, mental and physical health.

Methods: The recruitment of COAs took place in inpatient and outpatient treatment and rehabilitation units. Controls were recruited in elementary and high schools.

Parental problem drinking predicts implicit alcohol expectancy in adolescents and young adults.

The present study aimed to investigate the influence of parental problem drinking on implicit and explicit alcohol expectancy of adolescents and young adults (12-24 years). The study was conducted via the Internet, employing a between-subjects design. We measured alcohol expectancy by means of an Implicit Association Test (IAT) and a self-report questionnaire.