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Questions: 1. What are the five steps in the adjustment stage of family addiction? 2. What are the five aspects in the development of a protective persona? 3. What are the four important aspects of the hopelessness stage? 4. What are the three ways the addictive process affects a couple? 5. What are four things to consider when looking at the effect addiction has on children? 6. What are the three key steps family members of addicts make as they become ready to enter recovery?

Answers: A. The four important aspects of the hopelessness stage are negative attachments, unbridgeable gulfs, living in a state of trauma, and connections no longer hold. B. The initial agreement of the relationship breaks down, anxiety is created due to the breakdown, and the co-addict becomes the sole keeper of the initial agreement C. Polarization of the family, distancing, the breakdown of family rituals, the creation of new rules, and shame and blame. D. The six steps are: the erosion of trust, avoidance and control, the family becomes reactive, communication breakdown, and monitoring. E. Accepting that the family cannot control the course of addiction, realizing that family interactions have been controlled by the addictive process, and finding out addiction is an illness. F. The consequences of addiction affect children differently, the innocence of children, the attachment of the child to the addict, and the age and development status of the child.

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Questions: 7. The CRAFT approach advises family members to do what when a loved one is under the influence?  8. According to Berenson, what types of skills should be learned in each phase of treatment?  9. In what three ways is involvement in the recovery activities critical not only to the addict but to the family members? 10. Not all children living in drug-involved families suffer negative consequences such as abuse and neglect, particularly those who experience compensatory caregiving. However, what do these children often experience by the time they reach school age?

Answers: A. Family therapy skills in Phase 1. Family therapy skills (Bowenian family-of-origin work; inner child work; structural family therapy) are more appropriate in Phase 2. Couple therapy skills, intimacy and relationships, are more appropriate in Phase 3. B. 1) they have the opportunity to learn about addiction and its physical, psychological, and emotional effects 2) helps them identify relapse warning signs, support efforts to remain abstinent, and achieve some control over the recovery process and 3) gives family members the opportunity to heal any emotional pain they may have experienced as a result of the addict's substance abuse history. C. The CRAFT approach advises family members to ignore him or her. D. Adolescents are cut adrift from their elders and deprived of a context in which to engage in their decision making. At the very time that family and community would be most important, adolescents are in effect abandoned, in the name of autonomy.

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