TPP 185a: Eileen Devine on Supporting Children with Pre-Natal Substance Exposure
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the focus of this episode and who is the guest?
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Hey there, it's Debbie. Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before. And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around.
And so when we think about the brain, it only makes sense that if if there was a brain that was exposed to alcohol or any other substances prenatally, that it would change in structure and function. And the re the way that we would recognize that is through the behaviors because they're connected. So we see those behaviors as symptoms.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and my guest this week is Eileen Devine, a neurobehavioral therapist and coach who specializes in supporting parents of children with brain based differences. In this episode, we are going to be talking specifically. About the brain differences and challenges resulting from prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol, a topic that is new to this podcast, but is actually the leading cause of developmental disorders in the Western world. In addition to having over a dozen years of clinical experience, Eileen is also the adoptive mother of a child with fetal alcohol syndrome.
And as you'll hear, she brings a passionate blend of personal and professional experience to the conversation. Eileen believes that when we understand the way a child's brain works, we then understand the meaning behind challenging behaviors, leading to less frustration and increased hope in this unique parenting journey. Today we're going to discuss the narrow behavioral approach to supporting and parenting children with prenatal substance exposure, the added complications of stigma, misdiagnosis, and grief that often come into play, including the particular challenges for adoptive and foster parents. I learned so much from this important conversation, I hope you do too. And before I get to the episode, a few quick announcements.
The Tilt Parenting podcast is supported with the help of generous listeners who make a small monthly contribution to help me cover the cost of its production. If you would like to join this community of supporters, I would be grateful for the help. It's easy to do and when you sign up you can make a monthly pledge of as little as two dollars a month. Just go to patreon dot com slash tiltparenting to sign up. Again, that's patreon.com slash tiltparenting. And now here is my conversation with Eileen. Hi Eileen, welcome
to the podcast. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. I've been really looking forward to this.
Excellent, me too. So could you you know, I start all podcasts this way, just take a few minutes and tell us a little bit about who you are in the world, the work that you do and I love to know people's personal why for for what they do. Sure.
Yeah, no, I'd be happy to because it it it speaks so much to the to the work I do um every day that I'm honored to do with parents. I um am a social work, I'm a therapist that has a private practice where I work one on one with parents and and only parents and that'll get a lot clearer why that is as we get deeper into the conversation. Um, but what the parents that I work with all have kids with neurobehavioral differences or challenges that have challenging behavioral symptoms. And so that's that's my professional life. I do a lot of work with parents actually all over the the world utilizing our wonderful technology today that makes that possible.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the focus of this episode and who is the guest?
0:00–5:40
2
How does Eileen define neurobehavioral challenges and why do they matter?
5:40–12:12
3
What are the prevalence rates and diagnostic hurdles for fetal‑alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)?
12:12–17:56
4
Why are ADHD and autism often misdiagnosed in children with prenatal substance exposure?
17:56–23:42
5
What practical parenting strategies help address executive‑function and sensory challenges?
23:42–28:41
6
How do grief, stigma, and adoption dynamics add complexity for families?
28:41–34:36
7
What does adulthood look like for individuals with FASD and how can they be supported?
34:36–40:29
8
Where can listeners find more resources, community support, and professional help?
40:29–43:56
Speakers
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