Family Therapy and Substance Abuse (30 Hours)
Objectives
- Compare and contrast substance abuse treatment and family therapy
- Explain how substance abuse treatment and family therapy can be integrated
- Discuss the different definitions of family
- Identify how families are distinguished from social support groups
- Identify the four characteristics of families central to family therapy
- Discuss five core components of the systems theory of marriage and family therapy
- Discuss the four predominant family therapy models used in substance abuse treatment
- Identifying the five stages of change in the Prochaska model
- Identify the three levels of recovery in Kaufman's model
- Identify the three phases of family change in substance abuse family therapy
- Discuss criteria for determining the appropriateness of family therapy with substance abuse clients
- Describe the impact of substance abuse on families
- Describe the five characteristic patterns of codependent behavior
- Discuss for strategies for addressing substance abuse is that family
- Explain the concepts of denial and resistance
- Discuss the value of using integrated models for providing substance abuse treatment to families
- Discuss the limitations of integrated models
- Identify seven general questions we should be answered when choosing and applying a family systems model
- Differentiate between the eight integrated models for substance abuse treatment
- Identify special populations to consider when using family therapy
- Identify some of the most prominent challenges to emerging family therapy and substance abuse treatment
- Describe and I components that are necessary in order to provide a comprehensive range of program activities
- Define what adequate treatment is characterized by within a culturally competent model of substance abuse treatment and family therapy.