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  • Descriptor Title
    Family and Addiction
  • C-ID Number
    180
  • Suffix
    Community College Use Only (X)
  • Units
    3.0
  • Hours
    0000
  • Date of Last Revision
    2/26/2025 04:02:53 PM GMT+0000

General Description

This course provides an overview of the family systems approach to addiction counseling including analysis and examination of the relationship patterns that develop in families including multicultural families. The student will develop treatment strategies for assisting families and significant others during the stages of active addiction, addiction treatment, long-term recovery and relapse prevention using family-involved approaches. This would include the following: drug adolescent drug issues, co-dependency, enabling, adult children of alcoholics (ACA) with an interdisciplinary perspective.

Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

None

Advisories

C-ID ADS 110X (Introduction to Addiction Studies), C-ID ADS 140X (Pharmacology), C-ID ADS 160X (Law and Ethics)

Content

  1. Basic concepts of counseling theory as it pertains to the counseling of families
  2. Interdisciplinary explanations of substance use disorders
  3. Socioeconomic patterns of dependency
  4. Family Systems Theory – overview and use of
  5. Multicultural diversity and family dynamics
  6. Evidence-based approaches to family therapy

Lab Activities

No information provided

Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

  1. Describe how substance use disorder affects families and concerned others.
  2. Assist families, couples, and significant others to develop an understanding of  the interaction between the family system and substance use behaviors.
  3. Discuss the role that healthy relationships play in maintaining recovery.
  4. Demonstrate an appreciation for diverse cultures and an ability to incorporate the relevant needs of culturally diverse groups when developing a treatment plan.
  5. Describe the characteristics of codependency, adult children of alcoholics, and children of alcoholics.
  6. Compare and contrast commonly used family treatment therapies.

Evaluation Methods

Exams, quizzes, writing assignments and reading assignments, discussion groups, topic based group work, homework, genograms

Textbooks

Family Therapy and Overview; Goldenberg and Goldenberg
BrooksCole/Cengage Learning

Counseling Families: An Introduction to Marriage and Family Counseling; Fenell
Love Publishing Company

Alcoholism and the Family: A Guide to Treatment and Prevention; Lawson and Lawson
An Aspen Publication

Chemical Dependency: Theoretical Approaches and Strategies Working with Individuals and Families; Isaacson
Routledge

Descriptor Administration

  • Public Review Needed
    No
  • Next Descriptor Review
    No information provided
  • Resubmission Requirements for Courses
    Descriptor changes were administrative only
  • Resubmission Deadline
    No information provided
  • Comments

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  • Notes

    Courses approved for C-ID descriptors marked with the suffix "X" might not be CSU transferrable.

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