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Family Treatment Center Program

Our Family Treatment Program Opens the Lines of Communication

When you arrive at Stepping Stone Center for Recovery, we will, with your permission, mail out a packet to your family. We are looking for family input on patient behaviors, strengths, and areas of concern as it relates to alcoholism and addiction. This is an integral part of every patient’s treatment. We encourage families to return the packet, even if they are not available for more in-depth participation, such as being available for family sessions by phone or personally attending our Family Program.

Weekly Family Sessions Help Heal Wounds

We work with patients and their families to recover lost faith and trust. Every patient has a primary therapist who will conduct weekly sessions with a patient, spouse, parents, children, or other immediate family members. These phone sessions will:

• Update family members on patient progress
• Teach families about addiction and the family unit
• Introduce new communication skills
• Establish appropriate boundaries

Finally, we involve family members in planning and developing the aftercare plan that will assist patients when they leave rehab, such as where to live or whether to seek ongoing therapy, to give two examples.

Treatment Includes a 4-Day Family Workshop

While in treatment, we encourage patients to invite their family members to Jacksonville and participate in our 4-day Family Workshop, conducted by our licensed Family and Marriage therapist. The workshop helps the family of the addict or alcoholic, as well as the substance abuser, address problems in the family system. This intensive program takes place every other week at Stepping Stone, and there is no additional cost to attend. We only ask that family members provide their own transportation and accommodations.

Alcoholism and Addiction Are, Without Doubt, Family Diseases

We have found that when there is alcoholism or drug addiction, it becomes impossible to maintain a healthy, functioning family system. Either the addict leaves the system in order to continue his or her use, or the system must change to accommodate the addict. Once this occurs, the family members are no longer functioning on a healthy basis.

In order to recover, the entire family of the addict or alcoholic must work towards the goal of social and psychological health. That means replacing co-dependent, controlling, aggressive, abusive, or threatening behaviors with new, healthy ones. After years of addiction, the family’s communication skills are generally unhealthy and unproductive, and all members lack appropriate and safe personal boundaries. 

Alcoholism and addiction is a generational disease, moving down the line from parent to child. Other family members may suffer from a variety of addictions simultaneously to the active addict or alcoholic. For recovery to continue, all members need to address their emotional and physical addictions. These addictions may include alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, gambling addiction, and addiction to video games or the Internet, work addiction, raging, or eating disorders.

You Can’t Fix Them, You Can Only Fix Yourself

The family sessions and Family Workshop are just the beginning of a new, happier, and healthier family system. We recommend that the family continue in recovery efforts together upon the patient’s return home. This may include family counseling, individual therapy, and support meetings, such as AA, Al-Anon, and Codependents Anonymous.

The family should remember that while they are powerless over the addict or alcoholic’s use and behavior and cannot change it, they can change themselves.

Questions? Call or Ask By Chat Now!

If you have questions about Stepping Stone Center for Recovery’s free family program, or would just like to speak with someone about a drug or alcohol problem, please call our 24-hour Addiction Helpline at 1-800-237-3150. You can also Live Chat from your computer or use our Contact Us form.