Perceptions of School Personnel on the Impact of Disordered Parental Substance Use Among Adolescents

Ashley Cantu-Weinstein, MS3

Perceptions from School Personnel on the Impact of Disordered Parental Substance Use Among Adolescents

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About the Author:

Originally from Austin, TX, Ashley is now a third-year medical student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She grew up surrounded by the love of her Mexican American family, who have called Texas home for countless generations. The humility and compassion she learned from her family, even amidst nearly unbearable health crises, consistently inspires her work towards becoming an effective and empathetic physician striving for health equity, especially for historically marginalized populations.

In 2019, Ashley graduated with a degree in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here she discovered her passion for women’s mental health while working as a researcher in the department of psychiatry, specifically investigating the biological, behavioral, and social impacts of mental illness and substance use disorder on mother-infant dyads. In medical school, she has built upon this work through community involvement and research endeavors. Eventually, Ashley hopes to match into a psychiatry residency and complete a fellowship in reproductive psychiatry.

In her free time, Ashley enjoys spending time with her husband and cats, practicing yoga, going on long walks, visiting art museums, and reading tarot cards. She also loves coffee, sushi, naps, and fiction novels!

About the Work:

Here, Ashley has showcased a publication of results from a research project she designed and led, funded by the AACAP’s Jeanne Spurlock, MD, Research Fellowship in Substance Abuse and Addiction for Minority Medical Students, supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and AACAP’s Campaign for America’s Kids. This project combines her expertise in qualitative methodology with her interest in uncovering how mental illness/addiction among parents can affect their children in various social settings (i.e., schools), as well as methods for reducing adverse outcomes associated with these effects.