Finding the Right Time to Integrate Family Connections in Addiction Treatment

Addiction is a disease that often causes and is supported by loneliness and isolation. Therefore, it can make clients feel separate and disconnected from all whom they love. Family support and family connections are, therefore, an important part of the healing process in addiction treatment. However, it is important for these family connections to be integrated at the right time in order for them to be helpful to the client. Family support for clients at Reviving You Recovery varies for each person due to the need for these connections to be supported at the right time in a client’s healing journey.

Value of Family Connections in Treatment

When a person is addicted to drugs or alcohol, their behaviors and choices impact the entire family. This is true emotionally, physically, and financially. The effects of addiction are negative and can have a lasting impact on family connections.

However, families serve as a primary social connection for most individuals. The biological family is the center of a person’s social network, and family members are primary connections for most individuals. Therefore, while these relationships are often damaged due to addiction, they can help an individual to heal from addiction.

Family connections help improve treatment as they provide clients with a way to see how their addiction has impacted others. In addition, they help clients to feel less isolated. This serves an important purpose as it helps clients feel supported and cared for as they move through the difficult process of addressing their challenges with addiction.

Family Connections Support Effective Recovery

When a client heals their connection with their family in treatment, it sets them up for success for an effective recovery. This is because strong engagements with loved ones support a person’s meaning and purpose. They serve as a way for clients to be supported when they hit difficult patches in their recovery.

Meaning and Purpose

As a disease, addiction causes strong compulsions that direct a person’s life to be oriented toward continued and consistent drug or alcohol abuse. This constant direction often takes away from a person’s meaning and purpose that they felt prior to their challenges with addiction. Therefore, reconnecting with their meaning and purpose can help them to effectively steer clear of substance abuse in the future.

Connecting with loved ones is a simple and easy way for a client to reconnect with their meaning and purpose. As a client rebuilds their relationships with their family, they are often reminded of things they previously enjoyed. Therefore, in recovery, the continued family connections serve as a constant reminder of how a person wants to spend their time and their life.

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Support

While addiction is not curable, it is treatable. With support and effective aftercare, clients can recover from addiction. However, this does not mean a person’s recovery is or will be easy. Instead, it is normal for clients to run into challenges that they have to face along the way.

Family connections not only help clients to find joy and purpose but also provide effective and important support for clients. As these connections are built in treatment, clients and their loved ones learn how they can provide support for each other. These skills are helpful and important when clients hit a rough patch in their recovery and need the support of their families.

Finding the Right Time for Family Connections

Family involvement in treatment and recovery is incredibly valuable. However, it will only be effective if the timing is correct. When clients have the space they need, they can enter into family connections in a healing way, and they can become part of the healing process for a client.

Providing Clients With Space

There are parts of addiction treatment where a client needs space. For example, if a client is going through a difficult detox process, they likely need space to heal physically, mentally, and emotionally. They are not in a place to reconnect with others. Instead, their energy needs to go into doing what they need to get back on track.

In these times, families can provide support through space. At Reviving You Recovery, families are kept apprised of the treatment process. This includes times when clients need space and time away from their loved ones.

Family Connections as Part of the Healing Process

When it is the right time, family connection becomes an important part of the healing process. However, it is not consistent or the same for each person. The healing process is constantly changing. Therefore, family connections will at times be helpful, while other times be unhelpful. Families and clients can learn about when these times are. As they learn, they also learn how they can and will likely interact in recovery to help the client to be successful in healing.

Family support and connection are an important part of the treatment process at Reviving You Recovery. However, it is important that family support is introduced at the right time. At Reviving You Recovery, families are welcomed into the process with the client’s needs in mind. We believe that the client’s needs in treatment are of the utmost importance, and therefore, we gear all treatment toward these needs. If you know someone who is in need of treatment for addiction and could benefit from a program where family connections are prioritized thoughtfully, we can help. Call us today at (951) 723-7598 to learn more about our treatment programs and how we involve families in the process.