The weekly journal entries will include your thoughts about weekly readings, lessons, and materials such as:
– What did you learn from this week’s readings and videos?
– What concept covered so far has been the most difficult for you to understand?
– What did you find most valuable this week?
– What did you find confusing/difficult? Why?
NOTES (Instructions):
1. This journal entry will need to be 3 – 4 paragraphs.
2. 12-font, Times New Roman
3. Double-spaced
4. Submit this assignment by 11:59 pm, on 07/12/2022
Week 5: Online Required Weekly Readings and Videos
Scholars,
The effects of a substance use disorder (SUD) are felt by the whole family. The family context holds information about how SUDs develop, are maintained, and what can positively or negatively influence the treatment of the disorder. Family systems theory and attachment theory are theoretical models that provide a framework for understanding how SUDs affect the family. In addition, understanding the current developmental stage a family is in helps inform assessment of impairment and determination of appropriate interventions. SUDs negatively affect emotional and behavioral patterns from the inception of the family, resulting in poor outcomes for the children and adults with SUDs.
Culture is important in substance abuse treatment because clients’ experiences of culture precede and influence their clinical experience. Treatment setting, coping styles, social supports, stigma attached to substance use disorders, even whether an individual seeks help—all are influenced by a client’s culture.
Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Family Systems and Chemical Dependency
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3725219/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/ethnic-cultural-and-religious-issues-drug-use-and-treatment

Is Family Systems Theory the Right Approach for Addiction?

Chapter 11: Ethnicity, Culture, and Substance Use Disorders
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64095/
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt35326/2021NSDUHSUChartbook102221B.pdf
https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/infosheet/cross-cultural-mental-health-and-substance-use