Lesson 30: Family and Addiction: Slide  7

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No Individual Exists In A Vacuum

  • Individuals are linked by mutual assistance, support, cooperation or interaction with each other
  • Each person is part of a family, affecting and being affected by that family
  • The individuals and the relationships between them form the family
  • Whatever happens to one member of the family like the experience of addiction, affects all the other members, and their response in turn affects the original member

Notes:

Galvin, K.M. & Brommel, B.J. (200). Family communications: Cohesion and change (5th Ed.) New York: Addiction –Wesley Longman

Pg. 333-340, Boudreau, Richard J. Addiction and the Family , From: “Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Practical Guide for Counselors,” Howard, Harrison, Carver, and Lightfoot (Eds.) Toronto: Addiction Research Foundation, 1993.

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