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Zusatztext Monica McGoldrick Director! Family Institute of New Jersey! and Co-Editor of Ethnicity and Family Therapy Practical! rich in clinical wisdom! chock-full of fascinating case illustrations! Bridges to Recovery transforms our understanding of addiction and offers us a clinical and theoretical head start for the complex cultural task ahead of us. Jo-Ann Krestan has brought together a remarkable and diverse group of clinicians who have frontline experience of the struggles of those suffering from addiction. Informationen zum Autor Jo-Ann Krestan is a leading marriage and family therapist and addiction counselor who has appeared on such shows as Oprah and 20/20 and is co-author of The Responsibility Trap: A Blueprint for Treating the Alcoholic Family. Her other books include Singing at the Top of Our Lungs and Too Good for Her Own Good. She lives in Surry, Maine, and Castle Valley, Utah. Klappentext At last, a book that defines a new language for treating substance abuse in an increasingly culturally diverse population. Until now, therapists, counselors, and teachers who treat addiction within the context of the whole family have had to make do with outdated one-size-fits-all theories and treatment programs. Bridges to Recovery is the first book to bring together experts from three major fields within psychotherapy -- family therapy, addiction counseling and multicultural treatment -- to provide a practical and flexible framework for working with families within their individual cultural contexts. Drawing upon case studies, clinical anecdotes and proven treatment methods, Bridges to Recovery provides practitioners with a unique insight into the individual cultural nuances that make addiction recovery a very personal journey. Jo-Ann Krestan, co-author of the classic book The Responsibility Trap: A Blueprint for Treating the Alcoholic Family, and her contributors integrate the latest ideas and research to offer a foundation for addiction treatment that brings to the forefront the cultural thinking that affects alcohol and drug use/abuse among Native Americans, Jewish Americans, African Americans, West Indians, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and groups of European origin. This book will be an invaluable asset to teachers and students in clinical social work, psychology and substance abuse counseling programs, setting the standard for education and treatment at the beginning of the 21st century. Chapter One: Addiction, Power, and Powerlessness Jo-Ann Krestan The ecology of addiction in a multicultural society requires us, as family therapists and addiction counselors, to re-examine two core ideas that have historically guided our treatment of addiction in the United States: power and powerlessness. Pride, false pride, and shame are closely related concepts and must also be viewed in a multicultural context. Power and powerlessness are concepts laden with multiple meanings. Understanding the ecology of addiction as it relates to a particular individual or group requires us to first think about these concepts in a generic way and to then particularize them to the individual or group. The founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and family systems thinkers like Gregory Bateson based their beliefs about the nature of addiction on the Western European view, which is primarily "power over." I will address the concept of "power over" at some length, because traditional addiction treatment in the United States, often wedded to a twelve-step approach, evolved from this Western European view. It is in the context of this view that addicts are asked to embrace the idea of powerlessness over their addiction. Only then, we tell them, can they regain power over their life. The first step in recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous, the dominant paradigm for most addiction treatment in the United S...

List of contents

Contents

About the Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jo-Ann Krestan

Part One Perspectives

1. Addiction, Power, and Powerlessness

Jo-Ann Krestan

2. Kaleidoscopes and Epic Tales: Diverse Narratives of Adult Children of Alcoholics

Laura Chakrin Cable

Part Two Ethnic Ecologies

3. Culturally Specific Addiction Recovery for Native Americans

Don Coyhis

4. Addiction Treatment for Jewish Americans and Their Families

Jeffrey Ellias-Frankel, Alan Oberman, and Kelly Ward

5. Addiction, African Americans, and a Christian Recovery Journey

Deniece J. Reid

6. Addiction Recovery Among West Indians

Amy Bibb and Georges J. Casimir

7. Treating Asian/Pacific American Addicts and Their Families

Peter Chang

8. Addiction Treatment for Mexican American Families

Moises Barón

9. Puerto Rican Families and Substance Abuse

Miguel Hernandez

10. Addiction and Groups of European Origin

Jacqueline Hudak

Index

About the author

Jo-Ann Krestan is a leading marriage and family therapist and addiction counselor who has appeared on such shows as Oprah and 20/20 and is co-author of The Responsibility Trap: A Blueprint for Treating the Alcoholic Family. Her other books include Singing at the Top of Our Lungs and Too Good for Her Own Good. She lives in Surry, Maine, and Castle Valley, Utah.

Product details

• Authors: Jo-Ann Krestan
• Assisted by: Jo-Ann Krestan (Editor), Krestan Jo-Ann (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2010
• EAN: 9780684846491
• ISBN: 978-0-684-84649-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Addiction & therapy, Family psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychotherapy: couples and families, Addiction and therapy