Family & 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. This would include the following: drug adolescent drug issues, co-dependency, enabling, adult children of alcoholics (ACA) with an interdisciplinary perspective. (L)