Family Rehabilitation Critical to Young Adult Recovery

Alcoholism and drug abuse combined with negative emotional-behavioral and psychiatric disorders in young adults can severely affect parents and siblings causing severe stress, physical illness and a host of other issues related to mental health. Professionals in the field often refer to the condition as codependency or co-addiction.

It's often difficult for family members enmeshed in the chaos of a loved one who's suffering from alcoholism or drug abuse to see how deeply and negatively they've been affected. Their behaviors and attitudes shift in an effort to compensate and cope with the almost inevitable debilitating effects of the stress of living with addiction. If not treated, the co-addiction takes on a life of its own and becomes independent of the addiction that originally caused it.

Failing to acknowledge parent and family codependency issues while your son is in treatment can undermine his recovery efforts and set the stage for relapse--not to mention the bio-psycho-social harm to yourself and other family members. Just as the addict tends to deny the severity of his alcoholism or drug addiction, the family is often also in a state of denial.
In recent years, treatment programs have come to realize the importance healthy family relationships play in relapse prevention and the long-term recovery of anyone dealing with addiction. It wasn't too long ago that drug and alcohol therapy encouraged separation from family as often they were determined to be the "cause" or enabling party behind the person's need to "use" or created the environment that made it easy for them to drink or abuse drugs. It's now understood that family members can and should be powerful allies in the daily support necessary to prevent relapse.

Being there for your son in his hour of need and acknowledging your own co-addictive and codependent behaviors can and will improve his treatment outcomes. All families come with their own set of inherent strengths and weaknesses, but recovering together can fortify your long-term relationship in inconceivable ways.

Get help for codependency today! Your loved one's recovery depends on it.

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SCA Family Recovery Program

Recovery from complex substance abuse and co-occurring disorders is never easy--not for the afflicted young adult being treated, or his family. By the time your son ends up at San Cristobal Academy, you and your family have been through a lot. Undoubtedly the family has tried for years to help, not always with success.

Most families are aware that substance abuse disorders often originate from the bio-psycho-social environment that the abuser has grown up in. Families and friends help to establish the patterns or dynamics that make drug use and abuse an acceptable means of coping with everyday stresses and problems. Acknowledging that addiction is a family problem and that sustainable recovery happens best when the family engages with their son in treatment.

The San Cristobal Academy Family Recovery Program begins with an acknowledgement; understanding and respect for the long and difficult journey families have traveled on their path to treatment. Our staff believes in the importance of strong family values and relationships as the core to effective treatment for chemical dependency and co-occurring disorders. These are complex diseases requiring strong support, patience and participation from loved ones for recovery principals to become part of the way families interact and function going forward.

Participating in SCA's family program requires that parents (and possibly siblings depending on the situation) engage proactively with the case manager/therapist assigned to develop and implement your son's (and families) treatment plan. Specifically this entails the following commitment on your part:

Alcohol and drug addiction are systemic family diseases requiring treatment of the "system" to be effective. Whether your son returns home or chooses to live elsewhere, he'll always be an important part of your family and needs your ongoing love and support to live a happy and drug-free life. Most importantly, he'll measure your commitment to his recovery by the degree in which you engaged in treatment and your willingness to change the things you need to change.

Stand up for your family's recovery! Call San Cristobal Academy's Admissions Counselors to learn more about our Family Rehabilitation Program--you'll be glad you did!

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