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Family Recovery and Substance Abuse
A Twelve-Step Guide for Treatment


November 1998 | 200 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The problems of substance abuse affect not only the abuser but the people involved in his or her life. Family members and significant others often confront therapists, requesting recommendations on how they can contribute to the abusers recovery. The traditional attitude of therapists has been that the substance abuser cannot be helped until he or she is motivated. Therefore, significant others have typically been given little advice or guidance. Family Recovery offers clinicians a structured, research-based approach to working with significant others involved with substance abusers. Unilateral family therapy offers methods for therapists to improve the well-being of concerned significant others of substance abusers and to teach them how to restructure their relationship to the abuser in ways that may enhance the substance abuser's motivation to change. Family Recovery will be useful to both experienced clinicians and those who are training to be clinical social workers, clinical psychologists, family therapists, and substance abuse counselors.

 
PART ONE: PRINCIPLES OF TWELVE-STEP FAMILY RECOVERY
 
Introduction
How It Works

 
 
Al-Anon and Nar-Anon Facilitation and Family Recovery
 
On Giving Advice
 
Motivating the Substance Abuser To Change
 
Recovery and the Process of Group Bonding
 
Getting What You Wish For
Family Issues in Early Recovery

 
 
PART TWO: FACILITATING TWELVE-STEP FAMILY RECOVERY
 
Program Overview
 
Topic One
Introduction and Assessment

 
 
Topic Two
Principles of Twelve-Step Fellowships

 
 
Topic Three
Al-Anon and Nar-Anon

 
 
Topic Four
Denial

 
 
Topic Five
Enabling

 
 
Topic Six
Acceptance

 
 
Topic Seven
Caring Detachment

 
 
Topic Eight
Surrender

 
 
Topic Nine
Termination

 

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