Diana Family Therapy

Diana is 29 years old, lives in Buena Park and is featured in Intervention season 17, episode 5. She is an alcoholic. Diana drinks day and night and her parents are worried about her. They bring her food to make sure she eats instead of stays drunk all the time. Diana believes that drinking will take her pain and stress away. She has vodka bottles hidden all in her room and doesn’t bathe regularly. Her parents and her friend Christy is worried about her all through the episode and is worried the alcohol will eventually kill her, she wants to help her whenever she can. Diana doesn’t think that the alcohol will kill her. Diana’s mother has dealt with alcoholism in her family and killing her family members, she doesn’t want the same for Diana. Diana was always the best student and child when she was younger. She wasn’t happy in high school and felt isolated. When she was 17 she started an internship, and began a relationship with a man in his mid-thirties and was sexting and her parents found out. Which is when she started rebelling. She started cutting herself and acting out. She then graduated high school and then the drinking began. She went to Italy and this is when she started drinking because of the lower drinking …show more content…
Family therapy can be contrasted to individual therapy. Depending on the nature of the treatment the alcoholism may or may not be addressed. (McNeece & DiNitto, 2012). I believe that Diana’s parents wanted to do what was best for her, but I do not think they believe they were a factor to her drinking problem. They wanted so badly to get her help and they didn’t want to see that they were the cause and reasons for her drinking. They refused to believe they could do that to their daughter they were in denial. I think in time they will come to realize they need treatment as well and will go through with it to continue a relationship with