You have a male client that you are treating for SUD and as his primary treating clinician, you are also tasked with having at least one family session a week while he is in residential treatment. Your client's worldview on addiction is that it is an illness that cannot be helped. He verbalized to youhis belief that him draining his wife's bank accounts AND having marital affairs should be immediately forgiven and treated as a symptom of his illness. Your client does not show or verbalize any remorse for his actions. Furthermore, he wants you as his clinician to explain to his wife why she must forgive him and treat his past failures and future failures as part of his incurable disease.

Do you have a value or worldview conflict regarding his expressed views regarding addiction?

How do you think you would handle his request for your regarding the marital session with his wife?