Chief Clinical Officer Foundry Treatment Center Steamboat Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Session Description: Based on over 30 years of research, there is little disagreement that families play a significant systemic role in the onset and throughout the progression of a loved one’s substance use disorder. There is also strong empirical evidence that including families in addiction treatment is effective in promoting treatment engagement, retention, and outcomes. Unfortunately, even in these days of evidence-based practice, family programming in traditional addiction treatment is relegated to a peripheral role in the treatment process. Dr. Barnes will discuss the parallel process that clients and their families experience in terms of motivation for change, stages of change, and how families experience the same biological, psychological, and social progression through their efforts to assist their loved one in achieving sobriety, while simultaneously needing to live with the daily problems/traumas associated with their loved one’s chronic illness. Dr. Barnes will introduce attendees to multiple family stress theories, family-based models of chronic disease management, and Systemic-Motivational Therapy that can be used to help families gain new insight, increase motivation and engagement, and move effectively through stages of change. Finally, he will introduce models of family treatment that can be provided within traditional addiction treatment programs and across the treatment continuum to enhance treatment outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
After this activity participants should be able to
Upon completion, participants will be able to describe family reorganization (changes in stable interactional patterns) associated with a crisis or the formation of chronic disease.
Upon completion, participants will be able to demonstrate systemic motivational interviewing to assist family members in moving through stages of change.
Upon completion, participants will be able to describe the impact of systemic traumatic stress on family illness schemas and engaging in the addiction treatment process.
