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Parenting and Partnerships: Substance Use and Behavioral Addiction in Childhood and Adolescence
February 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM Eastern
FREE / 4.0 CE/CMEs
The 2025 Riggs-Yale virtual conference will focus on substance use and behavioral addiction in children and adolescents, examining the role of parental substance use, changing cultural norms, and efforts to find a community and belonging through substance use and/or technology.
Presented by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and the Yale Child Study Center
The 2025 Riggs-Yale virtual conference will focus on substance use and behavioral addiction in children and adolescents, examining the role of parental substance use, changing cultural norms, and efforts to find a community and belonging through substance use and/or technology. Conference participants will learn about the complex interaction between biology, psychology, family systems, and social context in the development and progression of addictive processes. Early prevention and intervention strategies for children and adolescents vulnerable to substance use or behavioral addiction will be discussed.
Conference Organizers
- Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP - Austen Riggs Center Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy
- Linda Mayes, PhD - Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology in the Yale Child Study Center
Moderators
- Nancy Close, PhD, Associate Director of the Yale Program on Early Childhood Education
- Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP, Director of Training/Staff Psychologist/Grand Rounds Coordinator
Presenters
- Uche Aneni, MD
- Mark Potenza, MD
- John Azer, MD
- Amanda Lowell, PhD