The Families Role In Recovery and Treatment

When a family member develops an addiction, it’s important for the entire family to be involved. The recovery journey is then about breaking a cycle, not just healing the individual. For many years, recovery was viewed as an individual journey. The addict went to treatment or joined a 12-step program and did the work. Research now shows that a family-centered approach to treatment leads to the highest chance of long-term recovery.

As opposed to approaching addiction as an individual problem, the treatment team at Sabino Recovery looks at how a family system exacerbates addictive behaviors. Inherited trauma can be carried through generations, creating systemic coping mechanisms. Often, a person with an addiction is manifesting a family system’s issues. By that same token, no individual family member is at fault for their loved one’s addictions.

In this episode of A Wise Mind, presented by Sabino Recovery, host Sam Zimmer sits down with Carver Brown, a Love First Interventionist and a certified Recovery Coach and Trainer with the Connecticut Community of Addiction Recovery (CCAR). Carver is also a Structured Family Recovery Counselor and a Grief Recovery Specialist certified with the Grief Recovery Institute. Carver studied under Deborah Jay, author of the book It Takes A  Family. Sam and Carver discuss the book and the role that family plays in treatment. The two touch on their own personal experiences with family, recovery, and the importance of a family support system when a loved one is going through treatment.  

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