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The person in the family with the presenting substance abuse problem is referred to as the (IP) or Identified Patient.
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The focus of family therapy treatment is to intervene in complex relational patterns and to alter them in ways that bring about productive change for the entire family.
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Substance abuse counseling alone neglects to highlight the impact changes have on other people in the family system.
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The term 'extended family' includes aunts, uncles and cousins.
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Families possess nonsummativity, means that the family as a whole is greater than, and different from, the sum of its individual members.
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Family therapy approaches human behavior in terms of interactions within and among the subsets of a system.
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When the person abusing substances becomes abstinent, someone else in the family rarely develops complaints and/or symptoms.
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Family therapy is a collection of therapeutic approaches that share a belief in family-level assessment and intervention.
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In family therapy, the unit of treatment is the family, and/or the individual within the context of the family system.
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Sal Minuchin developed structural family therapy.
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The family disease model looks at substance abuse as a disease that affects the entire family.
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Cognitive behavioral approaches are based on the idea that maladaptive behaviors, including substance use and abuse, are reinforced through family interactions.
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One reason that family therapy is effective in substance abuse treatment is that it provides a neutral forum in which family members meet to solve problems.
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Family therapy is highly applicable across many cultures and religions, and is compatible with their bases of connection and identification, belonging and acceptance.
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Family therapy takes special training and skills beyond those typically required in many substance abuse treatment programs.
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Sometimes family therapy is ruled out due to safety issues or legal constraints.
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A pictorial chart of the people involved in a three generational relationship is called a genogram.
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Boundaries regulate the flow of information in the family and between systems outside the family.
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When boundaries are too strong, family members can become psychologically and emotionally enmeshed and lose their ability to act as individuals.
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Within a family system, subsystems are separated by clearly defined boundaries that fulfill particular functions.
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Family therapy can be conducted with individual clients.
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Homeostasis is a state of equilibrium that balances strong, competing forces in families as they tend to resist change so as to maintain the family's balance.
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Triangulation occurs when two family members dealing with a problem involve a third person.
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The third party in a triangle must be a family member.
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Roles, boundaries, and power establish the order of a family and determine whether the family system works.
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Bowen family systems therapists believe that all family dysfunctions, including substance abuse, come from ineffective management of the anxiety in a family system.
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Bowen attempts to reduce anxiety throughout the family by encouraging people to become more differentiated.
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