Research proves that family involvement significantly improves treatment outcomes. That's why the Matrix Model Family Program helps family members take an active role in addiction treatment and recovery. The Family Program is a component included in each Matrix Model program. For the first time, the Family Program is also available on its own. It can be used as a standalone program or to supplement an existing program. Created by internationally known experts in the addiction-treatment field, this easy-to-implement program features 12 sessions. The sessions are interactive, allowing therapists to address the most pressing issues for patients and family. This evidence-based program includes the physical manual, three DVD video lectures, and a USB with reproducible handouts and participant workbook. The goals of this Family Program include: Present accurate information about addiction, recovery, treatment, and the resulting interpersonal family dynamics Teach, promote, and encourage healthy and appropriate individuating of patients and family members in addictive relationships Provide an atmosphere that conveys the highest level of professionalism, treating patients and their families with dignity and respect Allow patients and their families an opportunity to become comfortable with the treatment process Give patients and their family members a nonthreatening group experience with other recovering people and their families Provide a program component for patients and their families to participate in together Help patients understand how the recovery process may affect their relationships now and in the future The three lecture videos that accompany the program are: Triggers and Cravings Road Map for Recovery Families in Recovery

Written by leaders in the addictions field, 100 authors from six countries, this handbook is a thoroughly comprehensive resource. Philosophical and legal issues are addressed, while conceptual underpinnings are provided through explanations of appetitive motivation, incentive sensitization, reward deficiency, and behavioral economics theories. Major clinical and research methods are clearly mapped out (e.g. MRI, behavioral economics, interview assessments, and qualitative approaches), outlining their strengths and weaknesses, giving the reader the tools needed to guide their research and practice aims. The etiology of addiction at various levels of analysis is discussed, including neurobiology, cognition, groups, culture, and environment, which simultaneously lays out the foundations and high-level discourse to serve both novice and expert researchers and clinicians. Importantly, the volume explores the prevention and treatment of such addictions as alcohol, tobacco, novel drugs, food, gambling, sex, work, shopping, the internet, and several seldom-investigated behaviors (e.g. love, tanning, or exercise).

The Knotted Cord: An Update on Transgenerational Alcohol. Is a follow up to the original The Knotted Cord published by Nova Science in 2014. It is written as a conversation between myself in 2014 and then in 2019. The conversation is structured around the chapters of the initial book. Thus Ireland's toxic romance with alcohol, the stigma of transgenerational alcohol and the ethical dilemma of diagnosing and managing Neurodevelopmental Disorder prenatal alcohol exposure offer the beginning thrust to the book showing what has changed in the intervening five years and what has not changed. Overall the book is a critical and academic update on the complexities of understanding transgenerational alcohol and its impacts on societies worldwide. Management has clearly been placed in a Systems of Care paradigm, which is consistent with the 2014 book. However the intervening five years have produced a new clinical instrument, the Early Childhood Service Intensity Instrument (ECSII). The clinical emphasis on mothers and children under five years of age has become the entry into decreasing the impact of transgenerational alcohol. At the moment, the teratogenic effect of alcohol on the developing fetus remains frozen in being only related to a dysmorphic face. This is far from the truth as this prenatal acquired brain injury causes a mainly hidden, non-IQ, non-Face driven Global neurodevelopmental disorder, now more correctly diagnosed as Neurodevelopmental Disorder prenatal alcohol exposure, NDPAE, DSM 5.Code 315. Lastly, the challenge of approaching transgenerational alcohol and its impacts is a challenge to traditional medical practices of child and adult care. This disconnected model of care does not fit as medical, nursing, addiction and social workers need to move out of their silos and communicate with health professionals across the age range and accept this 'orphan' condition.