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TREATMENT PRIORITIES IN A FAMILY‐ORIENTED ALCOHOLISM PROGRAM *
Author(s) -
Nace Edgar P.,
Dephoure Marilyn,
Goldberg Martin,
Cammarota Charles C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1982.tb01432.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , family therapy , compromise , set (abstract data type) , psychotherapist , psychology , disease , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , computer science , sociology , social science , pathology , programming language
In this paper it is recommended that family therapists not repeat a common error experienced in individual therapy: namely, seduction by the unfolding dynamics which lead to an exclusion of the very specific contributions to the family's malfunctioning by the process of alcoholism itself. There are clearly dynamic factors in alcoholism as a disease process which compromise the family's ability to face and alter its destructive effects. A family program, as part of a comprehensive alcoholism treatment program, is briefly described. The importance of providing cognitive input about the disease of alcoholism is emphasized. Combined individual and group intervention address the destructive family dynamics set in motion by alcoholism.