Dealing With Families With Substance Abuse
Roles in the Family Dealing With Substance Abuse
Family Life Cycle
Chasing the Scream: Introduction and Chapters 1-4
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In the alcoholic family's development, this phase is marked by alcohol beginning to organize the family and family rules starting to change.

What is the Early Phase?

100

In Wegscheider-Cruse's family roles, this child attempts to bring humor and relief to a stressed family system.

What is the Mascot?

100

According to Hawkins and Hawkins, children of alcoholics are capable of developing this quality despite adversity.

What is Resiliency?

100

This Federal Bureau of Narcotics commissioner is considered by Hari to be the primary architect of the modern War on Drugs.

Who is Harry Anslinger?

200

During this phase of alcoholic family development, rigid regulatory behaviors emerge and family growth becomes stifled.

What is the Middle Phase?

200

This Black family survival role most closely resembles Wegscheider-Cruse's Hero.

What is a Responsible Child?

200

Wolin and Wolin identified this resiliency as the ability to understand oneself, one's family, and one's situation.

What is Insight?

200

This jazz singer, known for performing "Strange Fruit," was relentlessly targeted by Anslinger's bureau despite her struggles with addiction.

Who is Billie Holiday?

300

Kaufman used this term for families that remain relatively stable because substance use is controlled and members continue to function.

What is a Functional Family?

300

Vernon Johnson described this family role as the person who "rescues it" by protecting the substance user from consequences.

What is the Enabler?

300

Wolin and Wolin identified this resiliency as maintaining emotional and physical boundaries from dysfunction.

What is Independence?

300

According to Hari, when drugs were criminalized, this illegal industry rapidly expanded to supply the continuing demand.

What is the black market (or organized drug trafficking)?

400

Haugland's family typology describes this family as having the most severe dysfunction, with children often in turmoil and one child frequently becoming parentified.

What is a Chaotic Family?

400

Developed by Robert Weiss, this concept describes healthy caring and attachment to a loved one who is struggling.  

What is Prodependence?

400

Name any two adverse impacts associated with growing up in a substance-abusing family.

What are impaired trust, low self-esteem, role confusion, emotional problems, difficulty with autonomy/intimacy, or increased risk of future substance abuse?

400

These two doctors challenged Anslinger's views by arguing that addiction should be treated medically rather than through punishment.

Who are Edward Williams and Henry Smith Williams?

500

A parent comes home intoxicated. In this Haugland family type, a loud argument erupts and everyone gets pulled into the conflict.

What is an Emotional/Disruptive Family?

500

Name the five stages of the family life cycle.

What are Single, Couple, Child-Rearing, Launching, and Later Life?  

500

In Ruiz's Family Addiction Cycle, improvement in the substance-abusing family member often leads back to this relationship problem.

What is the increased conflict?

500

In the introduction, Hari says his investigation was motivated in part by a desire to answer this central question about addiction.

What really causes addiction?

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