Family Counseling Flashcards
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Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) for alcohol use disorder is primarily designed to:
Answer: Improve relationship functioning while supporting abstinence
BCT integrates relationship skill-building with substance use treatment, as relationship quality is both a predictor and outcome of recovery.
According to the family disease model, addiction affects the family system by:
Answer: Creating predictable, dysfunctional roles and rules within the entire family
The family disease model posits that addiction produces characteristic dysfunctional patterns—such as the enabler, hero, scapegoat, and lost child roles—across the entire family.
When conducting a family assessment in addiction treatment, which instrument is specifically designed to evaluate family functioning?
Answer: FACES-IV (Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales)
FACES-IV measures family cohesion and flexibility based on Olson's Circumplex Model, making it appropriate for family functioning assessment.
A key principle of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) is that:
Answer: Adolescent drug problems are maintained by multiple, interacting risk factors within the family and social ecology
MDFT addresses adolescent substance use through simultaneous intervention in multiple domains: adolescent, parent, family interaction, and extrafamilial systems.
In family recovery, the concept of 'homeostasis' explains why families may resist change because:
Answer: Families unconsciously maintain familiar patterns to preserve system stability, even unhealthy ones
Homeostasis refers to the family system's tendency to return to familiar equilibrium, making change feel threatening even when current patterns are dysfunctional.
Which of the following is a documented risk factor for children growing up in households with parental substance use disorder?
Answer: Elevated risk for developing their own substance use disorder
Children of parents with substance use disorders are at significantly increased biological and environmental risk for developing their own substance use disorders.
In Strategic Family Therapy, 'paradoxical intervention' refers to:
Answer: Prescribing the symptom or the resistance to promote change
Paradoxical interventions prescribe the symptom (e.g., 'keep doing the problem behavior deliberately') to disrupt the family's resistance and create change.