Health professionals often lack training and experience working with substance-abusing women, addicted families, prenatal drug exposure, and effective intervention strategies. Educators and health care providers must understand addiction, family functioning, and be able to communicate effectively with families.
Child-oriented professionals need specific training and supervision in: taking AOD histories; addiction models and issues for women; family systems - especially regarding the addicted family; prenatal drug exposure (medical, developmental, and behavioral outcomes); child development; family-focused interventions; parent-child interactions; intervention strategies for mothers and children (and fathers); HIV and its relationship to AOD abuse; treatment and referral strategies; and the impact of culture and ethnicity on service delivery.
All professionals working with addicted people and their children must have access to regular clinical supervision. Clinical supervision provides information, support, and stress management.
1 IDEA was formerly known as P.L. 99-457. The Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1986.
In 1990, the title of the Act was changed, and some changes were made as well in the content of the law. (For instance, greater emphasis is now placed on the transition component from toddlers to children aged 3 to 5.) The numbers of the law were also dropped when referring to the Act, since the numbers change each time the law is reauthorized.
In 1992, the Act is authorized under P.L. 101-476.
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