Counselor / Addiction

Dysfunctional Family Management

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.

Dysfunctional Family Management

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Dysfunctional Family Management

12 Questions

1. From "When a Family Divorces": The author describes the second phase after a family divorce. He cites common reactions of:
2. From "The Family Myth": Which of the following are facets of the "family myth" as described by the author?
3. From "The Family Myth": The author describes two common stances in response to a family divorce.
4. From "When Families Stop Speaking": The author describes the person who is dismissed from the relationship when another says "I'm done". The author asserts that very often the dismissed person does not understand why the other person is "done".
5. From "I\'m Done - The Family Drama": From the author's perspective, the drama of family estrangement is very often due to ______________________ rather than a single incident.
6. From "The Ties that Bind, the Ties that Strangle": _________________________________ often treat their children and relatives who have successfully separated as if they were deserters, traitors, black sheep or snobbish ingrates.
7. From "Coping with a Family Rift": The author asserts that the most important element of healing from a family rift is reconciliation with yourself.
8. From "You Voted for Whom?": Young adults need to differentiate themselves in order to form a stable and firm adult identity, and this process of differentiation often leads to ______________.
9. From "People Pleasers": According to the author, People Pleasers tend to have Injustice Collector counterparts.
10. From "Injustice Collectors": Which of the following is cited as a characteristic of an injustice collector?
11. From "The People Pleaser": The author takes the perspective that, once the People Pleaser has enough self-respect to stop groveling, the family will begin to heal.
12. From "Pin Prickers": The author proposes that, at the core of pin-pricking is:
Family estrangement is an all too common occurrence in our society. Many clients struggle with this issue in their lives. This course addresses common dynamics in the development and maintenance of family dysfunction and estrangement, roles that family members can play in this, and ideas for coping with family estrangement or improving it.
  • describe common dynamics in the development and maintenance of family dysfunction and estrangement.
  • identify roles that family members can play in this.
  • identify ideas for coping with family estrangement or improving it.
Mark Sichel, LCSW Based on his book "Healingfrom Family Rifts, Ten Steps to Finding Peace after Being Cut Off from a FamilyMember"
Mark Sichel, LCSW He received his MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work Certified in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Postgraduate Center for Mental Health Trained in individual, couples and group therapy: Postgraduate Center for Mental Health