Creating an Effective Family Treatment Program Using Action
Creating an Effective Family Treatment Program Using Action
Presentation at the National Conference on Addiction Disorders
When families come to a Family Program, they’re often so anxious, consumed with shame and traumatized by addiction that they can’t retain much information, let alone integrate any of it. So trying to teach them through power point presentations and lectures is not effective. By utilizing sociometric exercises to connect them with each other, we can lower their anxiety and warm them up to change, which allows them to truly integrate what is being taught, practice new ways of responding when their impaired family member completes treatment, and be open to doing their own work. This didactic and experiential workshop will demonstrate effective techniques for engaging and working with family members that you can immediately take back to your own clinical setting.
- Identify 2 effective sociometric exercises to utilize in creating effective family programs
- Learn the technique of doubling and 2 rationales for using it
- Learn 2 Psychodramatic techniques that can be utilized to teach families about addiction
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