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Volume 6, Issue 4
Research E-Forum
October 2014
Editor: Katherine M. Hertlein, Ph. D.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Judith Landau
Inside this
issue:
Creator of the Addiction Intervention model, ARISE
Upcoming
Research
Spotlight:
Judith Landau, Ph.D.
1
Works by
Judith
Landau
2
Regular Features
Carly’s Corner
3
Journal of
Family Psychotherapy
Contents
4
Judith Landau, MD, DPM, LMFT,
CAI, CIP, BRI II, is a child, family
and community neuropsychiatrist
and former professor who has spent
many years studying resilience and
overcoming adversity. Dr. Landau is
also an isangoma or traditional African healer. Co-developer of the Evidenced-Based, Best Practice ARISE
Continuum of Care, Dr. Landau
draws 40+ years of research and
experience aimed at facilitating long
-term healing for addicted individuals and their families. Author of
over 200 publications, she has
taught in 100+ countries, trained
more than 2000 Certified ARISE
Interventionists, been principle investigator on research conducted
through WHO, NIDA and NIAAA,
SAMHSA and has consulted to UN,
WHO, NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, SAMHSA, and several international governments. A Fellow of Orthopsychiatry Association, AAMFT and
NCFR,
she is the recipient of awards for AAMFT’s Outstanding Contribution to the
Field of Marriage and Family Therapy
and AFTA’s Innovative Contribution to
Family Therapy. Currently, recognized
as a global addiction and trauma pioneer, Dr. Landau continues to change the
future of addiction and its interface with
mental health by identifying trauma that
spans generations. Her recent TEDX
talk, Family Stories, Secrets and Survival, has become legendary and is one of
the most sought after presentations on
the subjects of family resilience, trauma
and addiction. Steadily working on her
long awaited personal memoir, Dr. Landau continues to be used by the national
media as an expert on all stories relating
to human behavior.
To the right: Dr. Judith Landau, one of
the creators of the ARISE Intervention
and Continuing Care model.
Publications about ARISE Intervention and
Continuing Care
Landau, J. (2011). The ARISE Intervention and Continuum of Care: Engaging substance abusers
and their families in treatment and long-term recovery. Familiendynamik, 36, 2-11.
Landau, J. & Garrett, J. (In Press, 2010). Invitational Intervention: A Step-by-Step Guide for Clinicians. Helping Families Engage Resistant Substance Abusers in Treatment. (2nd Ed.) Binghamton,
NY: Taylor & Francis.
Landau, J., & Garrett, J. (2008). Neurobiology and addiction: Assisting the family and support system to get resistant loved ones into treatment. AFTA Monograph Series Neuroscience and family
therapy: Integrations and applications [Monograph]. American Family Therapy Academy, Winter
2008, 29- 37.
Landau, J., & Garrett, J. (2008). Invitational Intervention: The ARISE Model for engaging reluctant
substance abusers in treatment. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 26(1/2), 147-168.
Landau, J., & Garrett, J. (2008). Invitational Intervention: The ARISE Model for engaging reluctant
substance abusers in treatment. O.J. Morgan & C.H. Litzke (Eds.) Family Intervention in Substance
Abuse: Current Best Practices (pp. 147-168). Philadelphia, PA: Haworth Press.
Landau, J & Garrett, J. (2006). Invitational Intervention: A Step-by-Step Guide for Clinicians Helping
Families Engage Resistant Substance Abusers into Treatment. (1st Ed.) BookSurgePublishing.com.
Landau, J., Garrett, J., Shea, R., Stanton, M.D., Baciewicz, G., and Brinkman-Sull, D. (2000).
Strength in numbers: Using family links to overcome resistance to addiction treatment. American
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 26(3), 379-398.
Translated and republished in (2002). A forca nos números: O método ARISE para mobilizar
familías eredes para engajar abusadores de substancia no tratamento. Pensando Familias, 4(4), 5678 (Brazil).
Volume 6, Issue 4
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Carly’s Corner
Carly Shadid, B. S.
Welcome back to Carly’s corner! This is the segment
in the Research E-Forum that Highlights research
that addresses international or multicultural perspectives from the field of family therapy. The spotlight for this issue is written by Ruth HoustonBarrett of Loma Linda University and Colwick M.
Wilson of The University of Michigan. The article is
entitled “Couple’s Relationship With Diabetes:
Means and Meanings for Management Success.”
This article highlighted great aspects when with
couples and families with not only diabetes, but that
can be applied across many chronic illnesses.
I had the opportunity to contact Ruth HoustonBarrett and gain some insight into her inspiration
behind her work. Dr. Houston-Barrett adopts both a
biopsychosocial approach and a meaning-oriented
approach to develop a better understanding in how
people manage their resources and challenges in
both her research and clinical work. According to
Dr. Houston-Barrett, “Ultimately, I wanted to write
about what makes couples successful in diabetes
management.”
I also asked what was the important take away message for readers in this article. Dr. Houston-Barrett
responded that “the relationship couples develop
with diabetes has a powerful effect on how successful they are able to be in managing the illness’s highly demanding self-care requirements. Their success
also relates to how positive they feel with having this
illness in their lives. In particular, it is important to
note that an accepting relationship is more helpful
than a rejecting one, and that a transforming relationship is most helpful of all. Also, the best way for
spouse’s to help their partner with diabetes is to
step into an active partnering role wherever possible, such as with meals, planning, and exercise. It is
also good for both to realize that, when the person
with diabetes takes the ultimate responsibility for
their own illness management, the outcome tends to
be most successful.”
Further, I wanted to know how the authors believe
this research expands the field of family therapy and
how this research can be applied across different
chronic illnesses and health issues. One of the most
applicable concepts is the beneficial use of a biospychosocial and strength-based approach in the management of chronic illness: “The developed theory is
valuable to the field directly because it is embedded
in central CFT perspectives in that it employs a holistic, systemic, meaning-oriented, and strengths-based
approach. To the degree that it has succeeded, it provides an example that may lead other researchers to
adopt similar fruitful perspectives.”
Given the relational, systemic orientation of our field,
it makes good sense for researchers in family science
to embrace a biopsychosocial approach in addressing
such issues. Additionally, I believe this article
demonstrates the value of including meaningoriented processes in couple and other relationships
vis-à-vis living with chronic illnesses and other health
issues. Many clinicians in our field use narrative, collaborative language systems, and other postmodern,
meaning-oriented therapies, and I believe that research from compatible perspectives is able to directly and meaningfully inform psychotherapeutic work,
a major goal of clinical research. Thus, I would encourage others to adopt similar perspectives to add to
the growing body of research using a meaningoriented, biopsychosocial paradigm.”
The author also added: “I appreciate this opportunity
to discuss this work. It represents a labor of passion
and care, as well as hope that it may lead to good
things for clinicians and researchers. Also, it may be
of interest that we have completed a second stage of
this research, a quantitative study using structural
equation modeling analysis and a much larger sample size, that builds upon and provides additional evidence for the theory developed in this first stage, the
qualitative study.”
Clinical Implications
This article provides many practical and useful insights into working with couples and even families
with diabetes, this information can be translated to
be used with other chronic illnesses and health issues
in couples and families. Working with a couple or
family dealing with a chronic illness can be difficult,
however in highlighting ways that the couple and
family can be most successful in dealing with these
issues may put both the clinician and clients at ease.
Houston-Barrett, R.A., Wilson, C.M. (2014). Couple’s
relationship with diabetes: Means and meaning for
management success. Journal of Marital and Family
Therapy 40(1), 92-105.
Volume 6, Issue 4
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Journal of Family Psychotherapy
Edited By:
Terry S. Trepper, Ph.D.
Table of Contents
Volume 25(3)
Developing a Measure of Fidelity for an Ecological Approach to
Family Therapy.
By Robert Allan & Michael Unger
Engaging Latino Families in
Therapy: Application of the Tree
of Life Technique.
By Gibrán A. Méndez & Elise M.
Cole
The Birth of Family Therapists: The Kosova Systemic
Family Therapy Training Program.
By Shlomo Ariel, David Keith,
Daniel Martinez-Ortiz, Phoebe
Prosky, Lin Shi, Anca Tiurean
& Rick G. Whiteside
Utilizing Forgiveness Therapy
to Heal the Negative Sequelae
of Polygamous Family Structure Among Bedouin-Arabs: A
Case Study of Treatment When
the Injuring Party is Absent.
By Itzhak Lander
Intervention Exchange
Edited By Thorana Nelson
Multi-Groups Family Resilience Intervention.
By Moosgar Borieux, Brian
J. Distelberg, & Julie Estrella
How Does Your Anger Bubble
Up? An Intervention for Anger, Grief and Loss, and Relapse Prevention.
By Gita Seshadri
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