Use goal-oriented techniques for successful family therapy with substance abusers! Family therapy is an essential core competency for substance-abuse counselors, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Family Solutions for Substance Abuse: Clinical and Counseling Approaches delivers the information and techniques you need to effectively treat addicts and their families. By understanding and changing the dynamics of the family system, you will be better able to guide your clients to adopt strategies and behaviors that sustain recovery and maintain healthy relationships. Family Solutions for Substance Abuse provides clear models of diagnosis and intervention for families, whether that means couples, teenagers and their parents, or Mom, Dad, and the kids. The theoretical background on family systems will help you understand the context of the client's addiction and the way it affects and is affected by other family members. Numerous case studies and figures bring the expert advice and theory into the practical realm so you can choose the best strategies for helping the shattered family heal. Family Solutions for Substance Abuse will teach you useful therapeutic skills and strategies, including: understanding interdependence joining with different family members negotiating goals and contracts dealing with family violence assessing motivation handling relapses ending treatment Treating addictions is notoriously difficult for even the most skilled therapist working with the most motivated client. Using the techniques in Family Solutions for Substance Abuse offers you and your clients a better chance at success, because addicts whose families share their treatment are much more likely to stay in counseling and remain clean and sober. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com. Reviews: “A WORTHWHILE PURCHASE for graduate and medical library collections. The authors assert that recover is a family process where all members, both the abuser and the non-abuser, play a role in rehabilitation.” E-Streams “A VALUABLE NEW RESOURCE. . . . PROVIDES ALL THE ESSENTIAL NUTS AND BOLTS. . . . A path for integrating family work into traditional substance abuse treatment. It presents both a well-rounded overview of the basic constructs of family and system theory and clearly understandable family assessment and intervention strategies.” Edward Hendrickson, MS, LMFT, MAC, Clinical Supervisor, Arlington County (Virginia) Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program “EMPOWERING. . . . ENRICHING! It is refreshing to move away from the disease model of dysfunction to a more positive focus of strength and competency. Here is a readable text that paves the way from the beginning of treatment through its termination. This book presents a clear and complete model as a pathway. THIS IS AN INSTALLATION OF HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS, and for the clinician, a course based upon joining rather than opposing.” Jean Seelig, MEd, CAC, Family Therapist, Alcohol and Drug Services of Fairfax County, Virginia Contents: Chapter 1. Why Work with Families in Substance Abuse Treatment? “Like a Zoom Lens . . .” What This Book Is About Chapter 2. Understanding the Family in Context: Family Systems Theory and Practice Interdependence: The Family and Individual Development Systems Theory: The Basis for Understanding Interdependence Human Systems in Perspective: Family, Culture, and Society As Context Major Schools of Family Therapy Goals and Techniques: What and How Family Therapists Help People Change Family Therapy Misunderstood: The Issues of Parent Blame, Biologically Based Disorders, and the Disease Model of Addiction Family-Centered Treatment in a Variety of Settings Chapter 3. What Makes a Difference in Treatment? Client Contributions The Therapeutic Relationship Hope and Expectancy Therapy Models A Final Word Chapter 4. Working with Families: Basic Skills Power Dynamics in Family Therapy Emotional Intensity in Family Therapy Learning to Join with Families Moderating Intensity The REM Approach to Working with Conflict Domestic Violence and Safety Using Goals to Frame Counseling Attending to Process Summary Chapter 5. Assessing Motivation What is Motivation? Visitors Complainants Customers Working with Visitors and Complainants in the Same Family Summary Chapter 6. Negotiating a Contract for Therapy A Vision of the Future Making Goals Measurable Resolving Conflicting Goals Contract Problems Chapter 7. Problem and Solution Sequences Defining Problem Sequences Solution Sequences Summary Chapter 8. The Ups and Downs of Change Making Change Bigger When Change Gets Derailed Troubleshooting Relapse Work Summary Chapter 9. Ending Treatment Structure of the Sessions Difference Punctuating Interventions Strategies to Maintain Change Plan for Post Treatment Challenges Termination Interventions Booster Sessions Termination References Index from the publisher's website |