FAMILY DYNAMICS AND ADDICTIONS

Catalog description

The student will learn characteristics, cultural factors, support issues, confidentiality issues, and facilitation of discussions concerning family involvement in addiction counseling. Impact of substance use disorders on individual family members and overall family functioning. Focuses on the nature of addiction as a disease, its progression, symptoms and treatments. The nature of codependency is discussed. Insight is gained by the students regarding their biases about the disease of addiction. A focus of this course will be on prevention programs across the lifespan.