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Because of the nature of addiction, the focus of the family tends understandably to be on the person with the identified problem. Unfortunately, and unhelpfully many professionals follow this same course, setting the family´s need for help aside.
At Recal we take a different approach. We recognize that families are also affected by addiction and that often, despite their best intentions, the way they relate to the overtly addicted person may not always serve everyone´s best interest.
Families can feel consumed by addiction as their life seems to reduce to an obsessive preoccupation with what is happening with the addicted person and with finding ways to get that person to stop.
Recal offers help for families in two ways:
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We involve family members in the treatment of their loved ones, helping the family as a whole to recognize that addiction has emerged in the family, the effect it is having on everyone and how together they can recover.
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We support individual family members and the whole family in their own right to find ways to recover from addiction and its effects and to restore health and wellbeing.
A meeting for family members that is held weekly and facilitated by two members of the Recal treatment staff explores everyday issues confronting families affected by addiction, offering tools and skills to help them cope with the addiction of their loved one in a functional way. This meeting brings different family members the chance to share their personal experiences and their thoughts regarding recovery.
These are Recal´s family counselor members:
Free Help for Family Members
At Fundación Recal Madrid we offer outpatient interventions, individual and group therapies for patients and their families who need help either with substance abuse or compulsive behaviours.
Addiction not only destroys the life of the addict himself, but also the life of their loved ones. We estimate every addict´s conduct affects at least three other persons, be it those of their parents, partner, bothers/sisters, friends, work mates or his/her boss.
From our experience, the inability of the addict to maintain healthy relationships with others and manage their own feelings in a healthy way is the essence of addiction.
As a result, the addiction is transferred to the family exponentially, changing the existing relationship with a range of negative attitudes and emotions, which are shared with the addict and prevent recovery, to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the individual.
Free help for families
At Clínica Recal we carry out individual and group therapies for people with addiction problems and also for their families.
Addiction destroys not only the lives of those who suffer from it but also that of their loved ones. Our calculation is that each addict affects at least three more lives, be it that of parents, girlfriend, wife, siblings, son, boss...
In our experience, the inability of the addicted person to live healthy relationships with others and manage their own feelings in a healthy way is at the heart of addiction.
For this reason, addiction affects the family in a profound way, changing the relationship between its members with negative attitudes and emotions, which they share with the addict and prevent – to a greater or lesser extent, depending on each case – their recovery: