Parental Substance Use Disorder and Child Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Functioning Through Bowen Family Systems Theory
Jackson Jones
Department of Psychology
Faculty Supervisor: Shasta Ihorn
This project examines how parental substance use disorder (SUD) affects children’s emotional regulation, behavior, and functioning in school through the lens of Bowen’s Family Systems Theory. It explores how family system processes described by Bowen, as well as parental emotion socialization practices, may be disrupted by parental substance use and how these disruptions relate to children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes in the school setting. Finally, the project considers how school psychologists can understand and support students impacted by parental substance use disorder using a family-systems-informed, school-based approach.