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	Intothediploma
	Intostudies
	Intojobs
	Intonews
	Intocounselling
	Intobookstore
	Intoarticles
	Intodevelopment
	Intoconnection
	Intotwitter
	Intoquotes
	Intoseminars

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Hello!

Welcome to Edition 138 of Institute Inbrief. Addiction affects the whole family. Because of this, it is understandable why some would suggest that treatment should involve the whole family. Our main article explores how family therapy can be employed to assist clients with addictions.

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Intothediploma

AIPC is Determined to Make Counselling an Attainable Career for You,

Just Like Over 55,000 Other Students in the Past 20 Years!

We have helped over 55,000 people from 27 countries pursue their dream of assisting others with a recognised Counselling qualification.

It's been a wonderful journey over the last 20 years (the Institute was first established in 1990). And it's been a pleasure to assist so many people realise their counselling aspirations in that time.

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Intostudies

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Intojobs

Vocational Training Manager

Counselling, Life Coaching and Community Services courses

The Vocational Training Manager is responsible for coordinating AIPC’s vocational training division and is part of the Institute’s management team.

Based in Fortitude Valley Brisbane, and reporting to the CEO, you will be responsible for overseeing all facets of our vocational training courses involving the day-to-day delivery of educational services, course accreditation processes, course development, and compliance with educational requirements in the AQTF.

Duties and responsibilities include:

- Coordinating and supervising the Education Team in the performance of their daily duties

- Accrediting Institute vocational programs and ensuring compliant delivery of nationally recognised qualifications

- Overseeing training and assessment processes to ensure compliance with AQTF requirements

- Managing the course development team

- Ensuring development of course materials in accordance with syllabus requirements

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- A Masters-level or post graduate qualification in Counselling, Psychology or a related area (essential)

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- Effective staff supervision and motivational skills

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Applications for this position will be assessed on a first-in basis so please apply as soon as possible by emailing your application to Sandra Poletto, CEO, AIPC at sandra@aipc.net.au.

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Intonews

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Intocounselling

Family Therapy with Addictions

Addiction affects the whole family. Because of this, it is understandable why some would suggest that treatment should involve the whole family. It is often the case that addicted individuals seek treatment in response to a form of external pressure exerted by family members.

Many therapists adopting family therapy to treat substance abuse today have broadened what constitutes family to include other members of the substance user’s social networks including employers, friends and concerned others in the intervention (Fals-Stewart, O’ Farrell & Birchler; 2006). The level of involvement with the family in treatment is regulated by the therapist ranging from family members offering support, to them being full partners in the treatment process with the user and the therapist.

Treatment can be provided separately or jointly with family members. However, it is structured a major emphasis of treatment is to educate family members about co-dependence. Co-dependency is an unconscious addiction to another person’s abnormal behaviour (Wekesser, 1994). Specifically, co-dependent members of the family often forget about their own needs and desires as they devote their lives to control and cure the substance abuser (Parsons, 2003).

Each member of the family may be affected by substance dependence/abuse differently. Parental substance abuse/dependence may have severe effects on normal children of alcoholics. Children of the substance dependent/abuser may hold themselves responsible for their parents’ dependency and may think they may have caused it.

Feelings of guilt, depression, loneliness and fears of abandonment are common with children of substance dependants/abusers. Such children may also have problems in school and have their school performance affected (Parsons, 2003). Crime, violence, incest and battering are common in substance abuse families. Relationship issues such as loss of intimacy have also been associated with substance dependence/abuse.

Partners of substance dependants/abusers are also affected negatively by the addiction. Feelings of self-pity, hatred, avoidance of social contacts and embarrassment have been said to be common in such relationships (Berger, 1993). The role of the therapist is to gain understanding of these functions of substance use in the broader family system in order to explain to the family the development of the behaviour and the function it serves.

Problem solving skills, coping skills, positive interactions and communication skills training are some of the interventions provided (Fals-Stewart, O’ Farrell & Birchler; 2006).

Family Therapy with Alcohol Addiction

Family intervention is considered to be an effective treatment for alcohol use disorders (Fals-Stewart, O' Farrell & Birchler, 2006). The level of involvement of the family in treatment is regulated by the therapist ranging from offering support to being a full partner in treatment. The focus is to offer the support of the user's entry into treatment. The three main approaches of family therapy are:

1. Family disease approach that view alcohol use as an illness suffered not only by the alcohol user but by the whole family. The emphasis of treatment is to educate family members about co-dependency behaviour that enables the user to continue with the behaviour. The family members are made aware that their acts of "love" and "caring" may only serve to enable the substance user to continue with their alcohol abuse or dependence.

For example:

- A wife who drives to the bar to go pick up her drunk husband at night as an effort to insure his safety enables him to continue the use of alcohol;

- A child assumes the parent role and makes dinner because mum is too intoxicated to prepare dinner;

- A wife covers up for her husband for not going to work because he was too drunk.

Family members are encouraged to emotionally separate themselves from the substance by detaching themselves from the problem to minimise distress and maximise coping skills.

With this style of therapy, the family members are taught that there is nothing that they can do to stop their loved one from using the substance other than to stop enabling them through doing things that actually help the family member keep the alcohol abuse or dependency active. It is important for the therapist to conduct separate treatment for the family members and the alcohol user (Fals-Stewart, O' Farrell & Birchler; 2006).

2. The family systems approach assumes that there is a reciprocal relationship that exists between the family functioning and the alcohol use. The approach believes that the development of substance use occurs when an individual member of the family is having challenges managing important developmental issues within the context of their family environment (Fals-Stewart, O' Farrell & Birchler, 2006).

It is important for the therapist to gain understanding of the function of alcohol use in order to explain to the family the development of the behaviour and the function it serves. Techniques that are used to achieve this include joining to promote rapport with the family by making a connection with each member of the family and increase reception to therapy by promoting areas of strength in the family.

For example:

A family of four; mum, dad, Sophia and Tia have presented for treatment because dad is an alcohol abuser. The therapist may facilitate joining in the following:

Therapist: "Mum thank you for being here today. It is important that we all take part in this treatment. And you Sophia, your father must be proud of you for being such a good girl. Tia, your mum has told me that you help her a lot around the house. That is wonderful. Dad, you have such a great family"

Restructuring involves modification of the family's dynamics such as bonding and power positions within family members. For example:

Therapist: "So Tia should you be the one to make sure Sophia is in bed on time? Or is that something mum and dad should do? What do you think mum and dad?"

Contracting refers to an agreement between the family, the alcohol abuser and the therapist to work together on agreed issues. For example:

The alcohol abuser can make a promise that he will not use alcohol in the day of the interview and the wife and children make a promise to support the substance abuser to stay sober and also not to use enabling behaviours.

Reframing involves the therapist helping the family understand their interconnectedness and how the alcohol use serves an important function in their family. For example:

"Do you think that your drinking interferes with your marriage and stops you from being the father that you would like to be?"

Marking boundaries means limits between the individual, the alcohol use and the family are defined (Fals-Stewart, O' Farrell & Birchler, 2006).

For example: The alcohol abuser is prohibited to have contact with his drinking friends for all the duration of the treatment.

3. The behavioural approach follows operant and social learning principles. The approach assumes that substance use is a behaviour that is learnt in the context of social interactions. The treatment emphasis is on; rewarding sobriety (for example: praise and recognition when a partner goes a day without drinking), reducing negative reinforcement of drinking alcohol (for example, encouraging your spouse to drink water after heavy drinking to prevent hangover) and increasing desirable behaviours that are unrelated to drinking (for example planning a family activity like going to art exhibition instead of attending a party).

The therapist's focus is to increase problem solving skills including problem identification coping skills, positive interactions and communication skills (Fals-Stewart, O' Farrell & Birchler, 2006).

References:

- Fals-Stewart, W., O’Farrell, T.J., & Birchler, G.R. (2006) Family therapies techniques in Rodgers, F., Morgenstern, J., & Walters, S.T. (2006). Treating Substance Abuse: Theory and Technique (2nd ed.). NY, NY: The Guilford Press.

- Parsons, T (2003). Alcoholism and its effects on the family. All Psych Journal retrieved from World Wide Web https://allpsych.com on the 5th of October 2009.

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Intobookstore

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Intoarticles

Skills and Role of the Group Therapist

Group therapy provides a unique and important way for clients to learn about themselves and their relationships, to gain confidence, develop new skills and abilities, and to give and receive support and feedback from others. For many types of problems, group therapy is the treatment of choice. In this article we overview skills and role of the group therapist.

Skills of the therapist

Group therapist’s skills are displayed in different ways and at various stages during the life of the therapy group. Group therapists must be well versed in knowing which skills are at the core of leading an effective group while also ensuring any skills employed are done in a timely and appropriate manner.

Interestingly, in the group environment while some of the skills are primarily the responsibility of the therapist, other skills may depend more on the cooperative efforts of group members in conjunction with the group therapist (Gladding, 2003). Some of the specific therapist skills include but not limited to the following...

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Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a directive client-centred counselling style for eliciting behaviour change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence (Rollnick, William and Miller, 1995). Motivational Interviewing is a relatively new cognitive-behavioural therapy, which uses simple, transparent and supportive discussion with the aim of helping the client to:

1. understand his or her thought processes related to the problem

2. identify and measure the emotional reactions to the problem

3. identify how thoughts and feelings interact to produce the patterns of behaviour

4. challenge his or her thought patterns and implement alternative behaviours

(Bundy, 2004: p43)

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Intodevelopment

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Intoconnection

Have you visited Counselling Connection, the Institute's Blog yet? We continually publish new and interesting posts including case studies, profiles, success stories and much more. Make sure you too get connected (and thank you for those who have already submitted comments and suggestions).

Fighting Shopping Binges

Worried partner writes… “My partner and I are both hard workers and have decided to save our money to buy a house before having children. However every time I check our savings there are more withdrawals and our nest egg is slowly vanishing. My partner readily concedes that they are the source of these withdrawals, as they sometimes “borrow” a little money whenever they go shopping.

They defend them self by pointing out that they do not shop that often and are not a chronic spender, but are only occasionally subject to spending binges which may blow the budget. They easily rationalise every purchase as being valid and purposeful. Admittedly they are not an every day, ‘mad’ spender, but if these binges don’t stop we may never be able to purchase our home, and I don’t know how I would feel about that!”

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Intoquotes

"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."

~ Mason Cooley

Intoseminars

Many students of the Diploma of Counselling attend seminars to complete the practical requirements of their course. Seminars provide an ideal opportunity to network with other students and liaise with qualified counselling professionals in conjunction with completing compulsory coursework.

Below are seminars dates available from May to August 2011. To register for a seminar, please contact your Student Support Centre.

To access the full list, visit: www.aipc.net.au/students/seminars.

Diploma of Counselling (CDA) Timetable

Northern Territory

The Counselling Process - 25/06

Communication Skills I - 02/07

Communication Skills II - 20/08

Counselling Therapies I - 16-17/07

Counselling Therapies II - 27-28/08

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 18/06

Family Therapy - 02/04

Case Management - 09-10/07

South Australia

The Counselling Process - 28/05, 30/07

Communication Skills I - 04/06, 06/08

Communication Skills II - 05/06, 07/08

Counselling Therapies I - 07-08/05, 13-14/08

Counselling Therapies II - 21-22/05, 27-28/08

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 01/05

Family Therapy - 29/05

Case Management - 18-19/06

Sydney

The Counselling Process - 06/05, 28/05, 03/06, 29/06, 16/07, 01/08, 26/08

Communication Skills I - 13/05, 17/06, 29/07, 27/08

Communication Skills II - 20/05, 22/06, 04/08

Counselling Therapies I - 15-16/06, 22-23/08

Counselling Therapies II - 30-31/05, 27-28/07

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 18/07

Case Management - 26-27/05, 21-22/07

Western Australia

The Counselling Process - 14/05, 18/06, 16/07, 13/08

Communication Skills I - 28/05, 02/07, 06/08

Communication Skills II - 29/05, 03/07, 07/08, 18/09

Counselling Therapies I - 11-12/06

Counselling Therapies II - 07-08/05, 23-24/07

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 19/06

Family Therapy - 14/08

Case Management - 21-22/05, 27-28/08

Brisbane

The Counselling Process - 02/07

Communication Skills I - 28/05, 06/08

Communication Skills II - 25/06

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 14/05, 27/08

Family Therapy - 04/06

Case Management - 09-10/07

Tasmania

The Counselling Process - 22/05, 21/08

Communication Skills I - 26/06

Communication Skills II - 08/05, 07/08

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 29/05

Family Therapy - 10/07

Case Management - 13-14/08

Melbourne

The Counselling Process - 08/05, 17/06, 30/07, 05/08

Communication Skills I - 07/05, 03/06, 02/07, 31/07, 20/08

Communication Skills II - 10/06, 03/07, 21/08

Counselling Therapies I - 14-15/05, 18-19/06, 09-10/07, 27-28/08

Counselling Therapies II - 22/05, 25-26/06, 16-17/07, 19-26/08

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 05/06, 13/08

Family Therapy - 04/06, 14/08

Case Management - 28-29/05, 23-24/07

Sunshine Coast

Communication Skills I - 04/06, 13/08

Communication Skills II - 05/06, 14/08

Counselling Therapies I - 06-07/08

Counselling Therapies II - 21-22/05

Legal & Ethical Frameworks - 18/06

Family Therapy - 20/08

Case Management - 25-26/06

Gold Coast

The Counselling Process - 09/07

The Counselling Process - 23/07

Communication Skills I - 20/08

Communication Skills II - 18/06

Counselling Therapies II - 06-07/05

Diploma of Professional Counselling (DPCD) Timetable

Northern Territory

Communication Skills I - 02/07

Communication Skills II - 20/08

The Counselling Process - 25/06

Case Management - 09-10/07

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 11/06

Counselling Applications - 07/05

South Australia

Communication Skills I - 04/06, 06/08

Communication Skills II - 05/06, 07/08

The Counselling Process - 28/05, 30/07

Counselling Therapies I - 07-08/05, 13-14/08

Counselling Therapies II - 21-22/05, 27-28/08

Case Management - 18-19/06

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 31/07

Sydney

Communication Skills I - 13/05, 17/06, 29/07, 27/08

Communication Skills II - 20/05, 22/06, 04/08

The Counselling Process - 06/05, 28/05, 03/06, 29/06, 16/07, 01/08, 26/08

Counselling Therapies I - 15-16/06, 22-23/08

Counselling Therapies II - 30-31/05, 27-28/07

Case Management - 26-27/05, 21-22/07

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 04/06

Counselling Applications - 02/07

Western Australia

Communication Skills I - 28/05, 02/07, 06/08

Communication Skills II - 29/05, 03/07, 07/08

The Counselling Process - 14/05, 18/06, 16/07, 13/08,

Counselling Therapies I - 211-12/06

Counselling Therapies II - 07-08/05, 23-24/07

Case Management - 21-22/05, 27-28/08

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 15/05

Counselling Applications - 17/07

Brisbane

Communication Skills I - 28/05, 06/08

Communication Skills II - 25/06

The Counselling Process - 02/07

Counselling Therapies I - 18-19/06

Counselling Therapies II - 23-24/07

Case Management - 09-10/07

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 11/06

Counselling Applications - 13/08

Tasmania

Communication Skills I - 26/06

Communication Skills II - 08/05, 07/08

The Counselling Process - 22/05, 21/08

Counselling Therapies I - 16-17/07

Counselling Therapies II - 27-28/08

Case Management - 13-14/08

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 19/06

Counselling Applications - 31/07

Melbourne

Communication Skills I - 07/05, 03/06, 02/07, 31/07, 20/08

Communication Skills II - 10/06, 03/07, 21/08

The Counselling Process - 08/05, 17/06, 30/07, 05/08

Counselling Therapies I - 14-15/05, 18-19/06, 09-10/07, 27-28/08

Counselling Therapies II - 21-22/05, 25-26/06, 16-17/07, 19-26/08

Case Management - 28-29/05, 23-24/07

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 12/06, 06/08

Counselling Applications - 11/06, 07/08

Sunshine Coast

Communication Skills I - 04/06, 13/08

Communication Skills II - 05/06, 14/08

The Counselling Process - 09/07

Counselling Therapies I - 06-07/08

Counselling Therapies II - 21-22/05

Case Management - 25-26/06

Advanced Counselling Techniques - 27/08

Counselling Applications - 28/05

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