Main description:

Counseling Addicted Families, Second Edition, is an up-to-date treatment manual that fosters lasting change for families dealing with addiction and addictive disorders.

Focused around the clinically esteemed Sequential Family Addictions Model, the book guides counselors through the principles of how to "progressively sequence" a client family during their change process, and explores how family counseling theories and interventions can be applied in treatment settings. This second edition aligns with the DSM-5 Substance Use Disorder criteria and terminology and includes new sections on neuroscience and cutting-edge drug detection assessment methods.

Both experienced and entry-level counselors will appreciate how the Model improves their clinical skills and knowledge to address the idiosyncratic needs of each individual family system and create healthy systemic change.

Contents:

1. What is Addiction? 2. Helping Clients and Families Understand Addictions: Etiological Theories and Models 3. Key Family Counseling Constructs and Assessment Strategies 4. The Sequential Family Addictions Model: Setting the Stage for a New Approach to Working with Addicted Families 5. The Sequential Family Addictions Model: Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Family Therapy 6. The Sequential Family Addictions Model: Structural Family Counseling and Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy 7. The Sequential Family Addictions Model: Extended Family Systems, Modified Intergenerational Family-of-Origin Therapy and Object Relations Family Therapy 8. Special Topics in Counseling Addicted Families: Counseling Non-Addicted Family Members, Social Justice, Suicide Assessment, and Forgiveness