2025 Riggs-Yale Virtual Conference on Parenting and Partnerships: Substance Use and Behavioral Addiction in Childhood and Adolescence

February 28, 2025

Presented by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and the Yale Child Study Center

Faculty information and learning objectives to follow

This 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 Schedule

10:30-10:40 a.m.           Conference Welcome

10:40-10:50 a.m.           Overview of Parental Addiction and Outcomes  

10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.   Panel 1: Substance use and Behavioral Addictions in Children and Adolescents 

12:20-1:00 p.m.             Lunch 

1:00-2:30 p.m.               Panel 2: Family and Individual Approaches to Understanding Addictions in Young Adults 

2:30-2:40 p.m.               Break 

2:40-3:10 p.m.               Panel 3: Parents and Educators Roundtable 

3:10-3:30 p.m.               Closing Remarks

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 4.00 APA

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    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 4.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 4.00 ASWB-ACE

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    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Conference / meeting course will receive 4.00 continuing education credit(s).

  • 4.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
    A certificate of attendance for all Learners.
Course opens: 
11/18/2024
Course expires: 
11/18/2025
Event starts: 
02/28/2025 - 10:30am EST
Event ends: 
02/28/2025 - 3:30pm EST
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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
  • Thomas J. McMahon, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and in The Child Study Center 

Presenters

  • Uche Aneni, MD  
  • Mark Potenza, MD
  • John Azer, MD
  • Amanda Lowell, PhD

Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.

 

* An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 

Available Credit

  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    ICPE Logo

    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 4.00 APA

    APA Logo

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 4.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 4.00 ASWB-ACE

    ASWB Logo

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Conference / meeting course will receive 4.00 continuing education credit(s).

  • 4.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
    A certificate of attendance for all Learners.
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