A family in addiction or addiction in the family?
With participation: Dr. Dorit Yudashkin Porat, Racheli Zigel, Noam Israeli, Dr. Keren Guetta, Dr. Amnon Michael, Dr. Shira Sobol (Goldberg), Hani Ben-Shitrit and Rotem Gur Dotan, Mifrasim Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Teaching in collaboration with the Israeli Association for Couple and Family Therapy
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In recent years, we have witnessed a steady increase in the number of families coming to treatment dealing with a family member suffering from addiction to psychoactive substances (drugs, alcohol) or behavioral addiction (screens, gambling, shopping, sex). The nature of the addiction has changed and we are talking about addicts functioning at different levels, but the dimension of addiction is present, central, and organizes family life and relationships.
The seminar seeks to examine the family patterns that arise in the wake of drug addiction and to offer interventions and tools for therapists working with these families. Some of the family patterns that will be expressed, discussed, and examined on this day are: The blaming pattern, in which parents and those around them experience guilt about the addiction and its subsequent shame; The pattern in which addiction has a functional dimension within the family system; The adaptive pattern, in which the family serves as a place of healing and growth for the addict.
Today's program:
08:30 - Gathering and refreshments
09:00 - Opening - Noam Israeli and Racheli Zigel - Families and Addiction - Guilt, Ambivalence and Recovery.
09:30 - Dr. Dorit Yudashkin Porat - "Such a Family"
10:30 - Dr. Keren Guetta – "Parents as Subjects: A Multidimensional Model for Therapeutic Work with Parents of Children Dealing with Substance Use Problems"
11:30 - Break
12:00 - Parallel sessions:
"Connection or Failure? (Family)" - Racheli Siegel and Dr. Shira (Goldberg)
"Family therapy in dealing with a functioning normative user child – presenting the model in Kfar Izon" – Rotem Gur Dotan
"Staying sane against the odds" - Hani Ben Shitrit
1:30 PM - Break
14:00 - Dr. Amnon Michael – "My Family and Other Drugs"
15:00 - Discussion and questions The discussion will focus on the possibilities for integration between the models, their theoretical and research basis, similarities and differences in goals, methods of intervention and change processes, strengths and contraindications for use, suitability for a variety of parent populations with varying degrees of cooperation and parents in challenging situations, and more.
14:15 - ending