Application: Family-Based Interventions
Family-based interventions can be particularly effective in substance abuse counseling.
Not only do they address many of the roles and dynamics that have helped to perpetuate the abuse and/or addiction, they provide a stark dose of reality to the substance abuser who has avoided facing the family members emotionally affected by the abuse.
For this Application assignment, you will design a family-based intervention for a case study and consider the legal and ethical issues that may arise when implementing it.
To prepare for this assignment:
• Review this week's Learning Resources, focusing on the roles and dynamics of family members.
• Reflect on the applications of various family-based interventions.
• Review the following case study: Julie.
• Think about intervention techniques that would be effective for the family in the case study.
• Consider any legal and ethical issues in implementing a family-based intervention for the family in the study.
The assignment: (1-2 pages)
• Briefly describe the roles of each family member in the case study as well as the specific attributes and dynamics of the family system.
• Describe a specific family-based intervention that you would use to address substance abuse and/or addiction in this family.
• Explain why you selected this intervention and how you predict it might impact each of the family members in the case study.
• Describe any legal or ethical considerations that may arise out of implementing an intervention with this family.