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Juvenile Drug Addiction: A Typology of Heroin Addicts and Their Families
Author(s) -
Cancrini Luigi,
Cingolani Sergio,
Compagi Franca,
Costantini Daniela,
Mazzoni Silvia
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1988.00261.x
Subject(s) - typology , addiction , heroin , drug , psychological intervention , psychiatry , psychology , family therapy , medicine , clinical psychology , archaeology , history
In this article the authors propose: 1) a typology of drug addiction cases consisting of four main classes: A. traumatic drug addiction, B. drug addiction from actual neuroses, C. transitional drug addiction, and D. sociopathic drug addiction; 2) a clinical study (with 18 months of follow‐up data) involving 131 heroin addicts 1 mostly treated with structural or counter‐paradoxical family therapy in the same psychotherapy center and in the same year; and 3) some preliminary conclusions emerging from an examination of the four‐class typology with respect to the effectiveness of family therapy interventions. If, for example, structural family therapy techniques seem more suitable in type‐B cases (similar to cases described by Haley in his Leaving Home), the counterparadoxical techniques are likely to be more effective in type‐C cases (similar to the anorectics described by Selvini‐Palazoli).