Family and Addiction

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the family systems approach to addiction counseling including analysis and examination of the relationship patterns that develop in families including multicultural families. The student will develop treatment strategies for assisting families and significant others during the stages of active addiction, addiction treatment, long-term recovery, and relapse prevention using family-involved approaches, including adolescent drug issues, co-dependency, enabling, and adult children of alcoholics (ACA) with an interdisciplinary perspective. This course may be offered in a distance education format.