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Addictions: Treating Family Manipulation, Mistrust, & Misdirection

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Identify three strategies used by addicts to control their family's emotions.
-Identify two results of family approaches to the problems of addiction.
-List three family risk factors on addiction.
-Identify four coping strategies of addiction affected families.
-Name the three rules in the families of addicts.
-Explain by what age do most children develop accurate perceptions of the role of alcohol and other drugs in their parent’s lives.
-Name the three methods family members use for coping with substance abuse.
-Explain how are children in the families of addicts placed into an “impossible situation”.
-Explain the biggest risks to the children of addicts.


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."