Finally, respondents provided sociodemographic information including age, gender, race/ethnicity, and household income. Drug abusers often deny their problem by playing down the extent of their drug use or blaming job or family stress. It will assist the doctors if you bring the pill containers with you because it helps them determine the number and type of pills taken. If you have any questions, you could call your doctor, but if you are in doubt whether someone needs immediate medical attention,[…]

Key concepts in both theories are feedback, homeostasis and boundaries that are defined and operationalized in this section. Nathan Ackerman, Jay Haley, Murray Bowen, Salvadore Minuchin, Virginia Satir, and Carl Witaker, among others were highly influential figures in this movement and developed its applications to psychiatric treatment. Out of this theory multiple models of family therapy developed including but not limited to strategic, structural, experiential, and more recently the multisystemic family systems therapy (MFT) model. All the family therapy models[…]