Pilot Test of Parent-Focused Cannabis-Related Actions and Practices Intervention for Adolescent Marijuana Abuse

The Cannabis Actions and Practices (CAP) resource is a parent-focused approach to help MM parents address marijuana use and attitudes by their adolescents. CAP includes information about the effects of marijuana on adolescent behavioral health, brain development, and social functioning. CAP also integrates motivational strategies to foster The CAP intervention focuses on building parenting skills and teaching strategies to: (1) limit adolescent exposure to cannabis products and parent cannabis use at home, (2) improve parent communication about their MM use, expectations about youth marijuana use, and attitudes about the potential harms of adolescent cannabis use, (3) improve monitoring, and (4) increase positive reinforcement for youth abstinence. Parents meet with an interventionist for two individual 75-minute sessions involving presentations, discussions, and behavioral rehearsal of key parenting skills.