Family-Therapy Approach to Alcoholism and Addiction
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:44:07
Category: / History / European History
Length: 8 pages (2073 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 8 pages (2073 words)
ABSTRACT
Family therapy has made a substantial contribution to the prevention of drugaddiction. This approach takes fully into account psycho-social relationshipsin families, particularly in families experiencing addiction, as well aschanges in patterns of family life and in social attitudes towards addiction.Drug addiction is a manifestation of serious dysfunctional relationships andinteractions in the family and is often interrelated with child and spouseabuse. Such family situations require multidisciplinary therapy measures forwhich the family, with its network
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E. Kaufmann and P. Kaufmann, "Multiple family therapy with drug abusers", in Family Therapyof Drug and Alcohol Abuse. E. Kaufmann and P. Kaufmann, eds. (New York, GardnerPress, 1979), pp. 81-93
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D. Korczak,"Fragen und Daten zum Drogenkonsum", in Die betäubte Gesel-schaft. D. Korczak, ed. (Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Verlag, 1986), pp. 15-29.
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