Addiction: Treating Family Manipulation, Mistrust, and Misdirection (MMAbb5)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are Manipulation, Mistrust, and Misdirection; The Threaten, Punish, and Relent Cycle; Resistance, Recycling, and Relegation; Family Survival Skills; Establishing Communication Within the Family; Positive Anger; The Caretaking Trap; The Blame Game; Mirroring the Addict; Five Negotiation Styles; Structuring the Intervention; Intervention Checklists; Formulating a Relapse Agreement; Families of Addicts: A Systems Perspective; Screening Methods for the Families of Addicts; Three Methods Family Members Use to Cope with Substance Abuse; Addiction Concealment and Taboo: The Lives of Children of Addicts; Paying the Price: The Impact of Parental Drug Use on Children; Early Intervention with the Families of Substance Abusers; Helping the Female Partners of Substance Abusers; And more...