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Online Class: A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse Prevention

A great guide for parents young and old. this course provide extreamly helpful tools to daycare providers and elementary school settings. Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions.

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Course Description

This course addresses the fact that the family is the primary social group for adults and children. Most parents want to do whatever it takes to prevent their family from becoming involved with drug and alcohol abuse. However, parents struggle with what they can do. They know that addiction is destroying the values of families and communities. It threatens to drain the strength of country. Drug abuse in our environments, change our values, morals and beliefs by having a grasp on our families, communities and institutions. The course A PARENTS GUIDE TO DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION will show parents ways to strengthen the family through developing positive self-esteem, enhance communication skills, cope with anger and stress, and develop positive health practices.

This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

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Course Lessons

Lesson 1-Introduction - Welcome to A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse Prevention. Congratulations for choosing to participate in trying to prevent your children from getting involved in self-destructive behaviors.
Lesson 2-Family - All families are special. No matter what the make-up, the family is the core to our society. In this lesson, you will have the chance to think about your family and perhaps the families of other classmates.
Lesson 3-Self-esteem - Help your children's self-esteem by showing them how proud of them you are. You can start by displaying their school papers and other projects in a special way. Always praise your children's efforts. Ask them about art and music projects, stories or other
Lesson 4-Communication - In this lesson, we will learn about "communication". This lesson will be exciting and will include activities that will help you find effective ways to communicate with your children.
Lesson 5-Reducing Stress in the Family - Staying in touch with your mind, body, emotions, and the space around you can contribute to your overall well being. When there is disharmony in our lives, it is often reflected in negative behavior, conflicts, stress, and sometimes physical illness.
Lesson 6 -Finding Support - In this lesson, we will explore the importance of support groups and will be able to identify types of support available in the community. We will explore effective methods for making decisions. And we will discuss the development of support groups.
Lesson 7 -Using the Community for Support - The goals of this lesson will be to examine the community as a resource. We will also discuss the impact of alcohol and other drugs on the community.
Lesson 8- Health and Drugs - The purpose of this lesson is to understand the stages of dependence on alcohol and other drugs. We will explore health concerns related to alcohol and drug abuse. We will then examine the affects this abuse has on the family's health.
Lesson 9-Peer Pressure - This lesson required you to take a look deep in yourself in order to make choices. You will see that values can differ from others. Everyone is unique, and values reflect this quality.
Lesson 10 - Family Love and Support - In this lesson we will take a look at long-term implications of child-rearing practices. We will discuss ways to show family members how much they are loved and appreciated.

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