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Family Therapy Proposal Essay

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Over the years a debate has ensued as to whether addiction is an individual or family problem. Our textbook states that “Bateson and others believe that addiction is not an either/or proposition but a both/and problem” when it comes to whether addiction is an individual or family issue (Stevens & Smith, 2013, p. 240). There are many advantages when using family therapy as a substance abuse treatment modality. One advantage to family treatment is that new problem solving skills can be taught to the family so that they can employ the tactics with their loved one. Enabling is a reoccurring problem that many family members do believing that they are actually helping their loved one. During family therapy, the therapist could go over scenarios
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