Family Wellness Program
Family members and friends are invited to attend video-based talks covering five major topics in family recovery. The talk consists of a 60-minute presentation, and a 30-minute question and answer session. Family Wellness Weekly is not a replacement for the work that your loved one’s program is currently doing. It is intended to be an additional support made available to you by your program so that you have an opportunity to heal, and to discover options for families and friends of loved ones who are doing the best they can to support recovery.
Time and logistics
Family Wellness Weekly is live on Wednesdays at 12 noon (PT/Az). The video platform is Microsoft Teams. A recording of the live session is available for the week following via a YouTube link below.
How to register to attend the live session:
The clinical team at your Acadia community begins by identifying you as a person who is a family member or friend of a current or past patient in treatment at their facility. When you have been identified as having a loved one who is either in treatment, or recently discharged from treatment. The clinical staff at your facility will help you to register and will answer your questions about the Family Wellness Weekly program.
Contact us for more information: 520-388-9180
Family Wellness FAQs
Family Dynamics Highlights
Families are hardwired to be the key treatment partners for their loved ones with mental illness or addiction.
Who are Families?
Families are groups of individuals who often experience relatively few choices on membership yet share resources and experiences, while managing multiple demands, and rarely receive formal training for healthy functioning.
Can families make their loved ones change?
No, family members cannot make an individual change their behavior. Families are systems with patterns of behavior, and all behavior is logical. Family members can change their own behavior in ways that will shift the subsequent complementary behaviors in others.
What are the functions of a family?
While families have a number of tasks that they participate in, their functions are actually very simple. Families nurture and socialize new members of society and they stabilize the adult personality.
What are the unique challenges that face families where an illness or addiction is present?
When an illness or addiction is present, family members must tolerate the unknown, manage their hopes and fears, and learn to stay in the present moment rather than hold on to the past or worry about the future.
How can families with illness or addiction be effective?
To be effective in relationships, family members can learn to manage expectations by accepting that more than one truths are true, which increases possibilities in resolving relationship dilemmas. Getting in the habit of checking facts at an observational level facilitates a nonjudgmental stance, which in turn expands the family’s possibilities.