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As part of addiction family therapy, families are encouraged to participate in family counseling sessions, visits, Family Workshop, and Tuesday night support groups. The Family Workshop is an intensive four-day experience, which includes education and interactive lectures with the professional staff, multifamily groups, meetings with your individual family counselor, and visiting time at the end of each day. Through this experience, family members are educated about the disease of addiction and about the 12-Step addiction rehab recovery program.
Through addiction family therapy, the family begins to understand their role in the recovery process and is
supported to work through the impact addiction has had on the entire family. After attending the workshop, many families report that the experience was essential to help put the pieces together and to be hopeful about recovery again through the addiction rehab process.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous describes how Dr. Bob and Bill W. became sober by helping each other. The symbol of AA is the triangle which represents one alcoholic or addict sharing openly and
honestly with another alcoholic or addict, and the connection which occurs between them. You might describe this connection as honesty, understanding compassion, spirituality, or hope. This process also
works for families! Talbott Recovery's addiction family therapy provides families with a safe place to share their experiences and to connect with each other by their common experiences.
Every Tuesday night from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m., Talbott Recovery offers family support groups which meet at the same time the patient and alumni attend their Peer Support Groups. The groups are divided according to relationship with the patient. The Family Group is available for parents, children, siblings, or friends and is led by Deborah Higgins LAPC.
The Spouse/Significant Other group is led by Barbara Patterson, LCSW. Many of the group members have
been attending the Tuesday night support group for weeks, months and even years after their loved ones
leave treatment. The groups embrace the 12 Steps and attendance in Al-Anon, Nar-Anon, Co-dependents
Anonymous or other 12-Step groups is encouraged. Topics often include working the Steps, spirituality, setting limits, and working our own program and not that of the addict or alcoholic.
The Tuesday night Spouse/SO group has created its own email exchange for ongoing support. Several
of the spouses have volunteered to lead the Al-Anon group during our addiction family therapy. A special thanks to Cathy W. who brings her Al-Anon friends on a regular basis to Family Workshop to help new families learn about recovery. It is a privilege to have our families here to share with us and with each other!
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