A family you are working with in family treatment has completed the
family detoxification stage in Steinglass' four-stage model. What do
you do next?
A. Prepare them for the family stabilization stage.
B. Emotional stabilization is needed when alcohol is no longer an
organizing factor, so you stop your treatment with them and
refer them to a psychiatrist.
C. Address in the most appropriate way the family's emotional
instability, which follows when alcohol is no longer the organizing
factor in the family system.
D. Renegotiate a family detox contract, as relapse is most likely to
occur right after the detoxification stage.
C
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a. Linus blanket b. emancipated youth c. convenience arrangement d. premarital
After 15 years of marriage, the wife of a Mexican American man left
him due, she said, to his heavy drinking. He drank only after a hard day's work and does not think he has an alcohol problem. But since she left, he is thinking twice. What occurred? A. His machismo let him feel that he fulfilled obligations by working hard and he deserved to drink without criticism. Now he feels emasculated and powerless. B. He is too full of machismo and cannot see how his alcohol dependence ruined his marriage. You are glad his wife finally left him after 15 years. C. He is experiencing acculturative stress, forgetting the fatalistic perspective of his culture. His wife was fated to leave. He does not have a problem. D. He has lost his feeling of machismo, which allowed him to hold his liquor.
A clinician should be knowledgeable in the community demographics and cultures. Why is this referral in treatment, or the selection of referrals sources?
What will be an ideal response?
A 45-year-old female client reports having had nightmares, flashbacks, and episodes of hyperarousal for about six months. She is MOST likely exhibiting:
a) Posttraumatic stress disorder b) Acute stress disorder c) Generalized anxiety disorder d) Panic with agoraphobia