Per National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2017), more than ten percent of children in the United States live with a parent who has alcohol abuse problem and alcohol related fatalities is ranked number three on the list of preventable causes of death. Moreover, families cope with alcohol abuse in numerous ways. Per Gladding (2015), family members can become enablers, live in denial, and the family can fall apart. Additionally, children of alcoholics often have problems socially, emotionally, and can carry these problems into adulthood (Gladding, 2015). Moreover, getting partners or a family into counseling is arduous; often it is the abuser, the spouse, or the adult child of an alcoholic which all face different issues (Gladding, 2015). Per Ukachi (2013), …show more content…
Additionally, both individual and group counseling are needed for the client (Ukachi, 2013). Furthermore, one intervention that can help a client with alcohol abuse is the use of motivational interviewing, which is designed to increase the client’s motivation to change (Ukachi, 2013). Moreover, motivation is ever changing, and a counselor’s goal is to boost the client’s motivation to change (Ukachi, 2013). Additionally, when a client decides to change, there are five stages: “pre-contemplation, contemplation, determination/preparation, action, maintenance or relapse” (Ukachi, 2013, p. 183). Furthermore, there are five motivational techniques counselors should use when performing an intervention with a client who has an alcohol abuse problem: empathy/active listening, avoid arguing, support client’s hope, point out any discrepancies between client’s immediate behavior and goals they have set, and do not avoid resistance (Ukachi, 2013, p. 188). Additionally, motivational interviewing is a joint effort between client and counselor, both working