Author Question: A family you are working with in family treatment has completed the family detoxification stage in ... (Read 139 times)

NClaborn · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

A family you are working with in family treatment has completed the family detoxification stage in Steinglass' four-stage model. What do you do next?

A. Prepare them for the family stabilization stage.
B. Emotional stabilization is needed when alcohol is no longer an
organizing factor, so you stop your treatment with them and
refer them to a psychiatrist.
C. Address in the most appropriate way the family's emotional
instability, which follows when alcohol is no longer the organizing
factor in the family system.
D. Renegotiate a family detox contract, as relapse is most likely to
occur right after the detoxification stage.

Question 2

The spouse of an alcoholic shares during therapy that he often either withdraws or attacks when his spouse is drunk and they argue. He learns that no matter which of these actions he takes, she drinks more until she passes out.

He also learns that he needs to act differently. In
what type of family therapy might they be engaging?
A. Social learning
B. BMT
C. BCT
D. Stress-coping