Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol: Effective Interventions in Social Work and Child Protection

Parental misuse of drugs and alcohol has been recognized as a major challenge for child and family services in recent years ? it is not a small-scale problem that can be left to specialists, but an issue that every professional working with children or their families encounters on a regular basis.

In this book two of the leading experts in this area present their own original research findings, and insights from the wider literature, to define ?substance misuse? and to outline key elements ...