Is It Loyalty, Love, or Codependence: Couples and Family Work with Addicts
1 Hour
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Simcha Feuerman, LCSW-R
1 CE Credit
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$29.99 USD
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Addiction: Etiology and Treatment Challenges
Comprehensive Sex Therapy & Intimacy Training Program: Fulfills AASECT Educational Requirements for Sex Therapy certification
Comprehensive Sex Therapy & Intimacy Training Program: Fulfills AASECT Educational Requirements for Sex Therapy certification - 90 Hours Core Knowledge Areas
Comprehensive Sex Therapy & Intimacy Training Program
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least three relational risk factors that may affect couples when one or both partners have been impacted by addiction.
- Differentiate codependent, enabling, and recovery-supportive behaviors in a couples or family case example.
- Identify at least two clinician countertransference reactions that may arise when treating couples affected by addiction and describe strategies for maintaining therapeutic neutrality.
Agenda:
Introduction and Course Overview — 5 minutes
- Overview of addiction’s impact on couples and family relationships
- Review of the course objectives and clinical relevance
Relationship Effects of Addiction and Recovery — 12 minutes
- Feelings of betrayal, mistrust, resentment, and instability
- How addiction may affect communication, emotional intimacy, and family roles
- Relationship changes that may occur when a partner enters recovery or develops a newly sober identity
Codependence and Enabling — 12 minutes
- Defining codependence within couples and family relationships
- Distinguishing genuine support from misplaced compassion or enabling
- How well-intended assistance may reinforce unhealthy expectations and behaviors
- Recognizing patterns that maintain relational dysfunction
Twelve-Step Principles and Relationship Repair — 8 minutes
- Relevant Twelve-Step concepts that may support accountability and relational healing
- The role of spirituality, surrender, amends, and personal responsibility
- Applying recovery principles without requiring the non-addicted partner to assume responsibility for the addicted partner’s recovery
Clinical Assessment and Treatment Strategies — 13 minutes
- Assessing addiction-related conflict, codependence, enabling, and emotional safety
- Addressing substance use, affect regulation, anger, hostility, and relationship distress
- Determining when individual therapy, couples therapy, addiction treatment, or sex-therapy referral may be appropriate
- Supporting constructive communication, boundaries, and recovery-oriented relationship changes
Clinician Countertransference and Boundaries — 5 minutes
- Recognizing tendencies to rescue, blame, overidentify, or take sides
- Maintaining balanced clinical boundaries with both partners
- Monitoring personal beliefs about addiction, responsibility, and recovery
Clinical Integration and Key Takeaways — 5 minutes
- Application of course concepts to couples and family treatment
- Review of codependence, enabling, recovery-related changes, and treatment priorities
- Summary of key clinical considerations
This previously recorded self-study course offers 1.0 continuing education contact hour and does not qualify for live or live-interactive credit
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 1 Continuing Education Hours
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits. It grants Credits as listed below.
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This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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