The family recovery programme includes:
- Understanding addiction and its effects – perspectives on the consuming relationship and how these relate to your situation
- Understanding your feelings: shame, guilt, fear and anxiety, anger, loneliness, depression and hopelessness, stress
- Living with and coping with addiction – the struggle for control and addiction to ‘hopium’
- You and your family – how things work now, how they don’t, how they could
- Values, patterns, norms, dynamics, roles, boundaries, communication
- Your role in the family
- Genogram – the generational perspective
- Developing a personal recovery plan – what it means, what is involved
- New ways of coping; new ways of being – plans for the future
