Question

A client has completed treatment for an addiction to prescription pain medications. as part of the client's therapy, the family participates in a family therapy program. which reason would best explain the need for a family system approach to therapy?

Answer 1

When a person suffers from addiction the family often plays a large roll. They may be enabling that person and just like that person needs to learn new skills to stop their addiction the family needs to learn new skills to stop enabling. There is also a lot of trauma when a family member has an addiction and therapy can start resolving that as well.