by Virginia A. Kelly (Author)
This book identifies and addresses potential clinical issues for
clients who have family members struggling with addiction, and offers
concrete strategies for treatment. Viewing addiction as a family
disease, Dr. Kelly explores the complex challenges faced by family
members, examines the ways in which substance use disorders affect
family dynamics, and discusses behaviors that help sustain recovery and
create and maintain healthy relationships.
A brief history of
substance abuse is provided, as are the primary models of addiction and
family theory. Chapters on codependency and the emotional, relational,
and behavioral consequences of living with a family member with a
substance use disorder follow. The universality of substance abuse is
then examined along with specific ethnic and cultural differences.
Family support group treatment options complete the text. Case
conceptualization exercises that contain reflections, implications for
the counselor, and discussion questions for application of the material
are interspersed throughout the book to link theory to practice.
