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"Addiction is a national mental and medical health crisis, responsible for untold costs to our society and severe suffering to innumerable people. Yet addiction treatment, as it is now practiced, fails half the time. The current treatment approach has changed little in the last 80 years and is a hodgepodge of often-shady treatment approaches. This book presents a radically different addiction treatment paradigm, based on science, evidence and best practices, and has a success rate approaching 100% when followed closely. This model will profoundly upend the current addiction treatment industry. Nearly every addict lives in a social system, a family, workplace or community that enables and supports, often unconsciously, the addict's addiction. Instead of the current addict-focused approach, this model extends treatment to the entire support system, starting treatment with the concerned family members. This model also proposes a single provider, the family recovery therapist, who oversees and manages treatment for the addict and the family from the first phone call through the first year of continuous sobriety. This book offers simple recommendations to both addiction treatment providers and family members impacted by this brain disease. It serves as a beacon of hope for families impacted by addiction"--
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part One. Theory and Principles
Chapter 1-Addiction Treatment: Introducing a New Paradigm
Chapter 2-The Fourteen Principles of Family Recovery Therapy
Chapter 3-What Is Addiction?
Chapter 4-Effective Treatment-FRT's Fourteen Principles and the Federal Guidelines for Addiction Treatment
Chapter 5-Bowen's Theory of Family Systems
Part Two. Practice
Chapter 6-Introduction to Case Studies
Chapter 7-Case Study-Young Adult
Chapter 8-Case Study-Spouse
Chapter 9-Case Study-Parent
Chapter 10-Case Study-Adolescent
Chapter 11-Stephanie Brown's Developmental Model of Family Recovery and FRT
Part Three. Using Adjunctive Resources
Chapter 12-Working with Other Treatment Providers
Chapter 13-Social Support and Mutual Aid Groups
Chapter 14-Drug Testing
Conclusion
Appendix A. Erik Erikson's Eight Stages of Psycho-Social Development
Appendix B. The Fourteen Principles of Family Recovery Therapy
Appendix C. How AA Works with Professionals
Appendix D. Dr. Kevin McCauley's Ten Principles of Successful Addiction Treatment
Appendix E. Addiction/Codependency Family Treatment Agreement
Appendix F. Additional Resources
Appendix G. Testing Instruments
Appendix H. The Cost of Addiction Treatment
Appendix I. "REQUIEM: My Mother's Unspeakable Illness" by Cynthia Gorney
Appendix J. From Addiction to Healthy Self
Appendix K. How to Find Social Support Groups
Appendix L. Spiritual Experience
References
Index
About the author
Larry Fritzlan, LMFT, is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), a Certified Addiction Specialist (CAS), and a Board Certified Intervention Professional (CIP). In private practice for the past 25 years, he specializes in working with families suffering from addiction and codependency. His office is in Corte Madera, California.
