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Thanks SeekingGrowth... there really are so many misconceptions out there.. I was just reading something from a clinician who said a father thought he was making a mistake cooking breakfast for his daughter because sometimes she still smokes pot. So he felt that by being nice to her, doing for her what she could do for herself was enabling, and was maybe showing her he approved of her behavior; which he did not...

the clinician pointed this out as just one of the horrible misconceptions out there ... where detachment is considered a necessary action...it often comes into play and begins to undermine relationships. And those family relations are often the very thing that helps motivate change and often encourages the acceptance of treatment.