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Systemic Addiction Treatment in Couple and Family Therapy

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American families are facing an epidemic – results from the Faces and Voices Campaign Survey estimate that substance use disorders (SUDs) impact almost two-thirds of all families (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2012). Couples with alcohol problems are four times more likely to separate or divorce than average, even after beginning recovery. Additionally, “gambling disorder” was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), the first formal recognition of a behavioral addiction. Future research will likely lead to additional categories in the behavioral addiction category.

Despite well-established literature consistently confirming the importance of family dynamics as a crucial variable that can maintain, increase, or decrease addictive symptomology, integration of family and couple therapy remains relatively rare. Most addiction treatment models emphasize individually oriented recovery paths...

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  1. The Gottman Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

    Robert J. Navarra

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Jay Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Anthony Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Kelley Quirk

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Adam Fisher

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Navarra, R.J. (2018). Systemic Addiction Treatment in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1012-1

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