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Counselor / Addiction

Engaging Families in the Recovery Process

2.00 - CE credit hours training

$12.00 - Cost of course

This page contains important information about the course, including training details, a comprehensive course description, learning objectives, and source references. We encourage you to review each section to gain a clear understanding of the course content, educational goals, and supporting materials before beginning your training and taking the POST TEST below.

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

Engaging Families in the Recovery Process

Follow the link below, read the material and then take the 12 question post test

Read the Course Material:
Engaging Families in the Recovery Process

12 Questions

1. From" Introduction": Research findings document a relationship between family involvement in treatment and positive outcomes and attest to the need for family-based services. Family involvement in treatment seems to _________________.
2. From "Planning for Family Involvement": The article distinguishes between family of origin and family of choice. When determining the client\'s concept of family, the key is to identify who will be supportive of recovery and who might seek to undermine it.
3. From "Engaging the Family in Treatment": The article mentions client-initiated engagement efforts. This involves:
4. From "Engaging the Family in Treatment": The article describes various kinds of reluctance substance abuse clients have about the involvement of family members in the treatment process. Which of the following is NOT cited?
5. From "Family Services": Family members have a variety of needs that family services can help with. Which of the following needs are cited?
6. From "Family Services": The article mentions a meta-analysis that compared the effectiveness of family education, family therapy, and other forms of family intervention for people with substance use disorders. The results suggested:
7. From "Family Services": Cross-learning--in which, for example, a man learns to understand his wife better by listening to other husbands and wives--is cited as one of the most powerful effects of ______________.
8. From "Family Clinical Issues in IOT": Clients are advised to prepare the family and the client for the possibility of relapse. Which of the following are suggested ways to help them prepare?
9. From "Family Clinical Issues in IOT": The article mentions that one challenge for family life without substance abuse involves concerns over what to tell friends, neighbors, and associates about treatment and recovery. One suggestion is to have family members develop and sign an agreement about what information they want to share with others and when.
10. From "Family Genograms": In the family genogram case study, the genogram process:
11. From "Family Social Network Maps": Family Social Network Maps can help clients:
12. From "Family Social Network Maps": Identifying concrete support, emotional support and information support are aspects of _______________ of a Family Social Network Map.
This course introduces features of family involvement in intensive outpatient substance abuse recovery programs. Strategies for engaging families are discussed. A variety of family therapy options are outlined that can be offered by IOT programs as enhanced services, or more frequently, to which they may refer clients and their families. Family clinical issues in intensive outpatient treatment are reviewed, as well as the use of family genograms and family social network maps.
  • summarize family clinical issues in intensive outpatient treatment.
  • identify strategies for engaging the family in treatment.
  • describe a variety of family therapy options for the kinds of clients using intensive outpatient treatment.
  • outline the use of family genograms and family social network maps.
Fred Andes, D.S.W., M.P.A., LCSW
Assistant Professor of Sociology
New Jersey City University