Family Participation

Every woman is a unique individual who will be treated as such in our treatment program. However, we have noticed a few trends during our 20-plus years of treating chemical dependency in women. For example, the woman whose family is involved in her recovery will statistically achieve higher long-term success rates of maintaining sobriety after treatment concludes. Once your loved one arrives here and starts her treatment program, our Family Program staff will contact you to help make arrangements for participation in our Family Program. Call (888) 471-0435 to have all of your questions confidentially answered by professionals who will help begin the process of healing.

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Treating the Entire Family

The underlying issues that contribute to chemical dependency can be overwhelmingly destructive unless they are addressed with the help of clinical professionals in a setting like The Rose Family Program.

Many chemically dependent women gradually progress into problematic drug or alcohol abuse without realizing that they are becoming addicted. It follows that these women aren't aware of the harm they cause those around them, including their co-workers, friends, family members, and loved ones. The family members and loved ones often don't realize the role they play in the cycle of drug dependency. Sometimes the best thing to do for a woman who is abusing drugs or alcohol can be counterintuitive to those around her.

As we discuss in the web page we created to help the families and loved ones of addicted women, we know that the suffering of the families and loved ones can be unbearable and requires skills and tools that will help them cope.

Our Monthly Family Program

The Rose hosts a monthly "Family Program" that educates the entire family about the disease of addiction and how it might be affecting them. Many useful concepts are taught that will help the family work through the wreckage that addiction has caused and learn how to cope with the challenges that addiction will present in the future.

The Family Program at The Rose is unlike other family counseling sessions that occur at most treatment centers. We find that all too often families dread attending Family Program, as visions of tearful confrontations and fear of the unknown make them worried about what will occur during the experience.

At The Rose, we take the opportunity to create an experience that is both educational and positive. Our Family Program is truly for the family and loved ones of the woman who is in treatment. We take the time to educate the family about issues like "enabling" and how to react when the loved one is dishonest or in denial.

Our state-of-the-art Family Program also helps families understand the importance of getting help for themselves and how to do so. There is no more important thing you can do for an addicted daughter, sister, mother, or wife than take care of yourself and respond to the addiction in a unified way. This approach will help alleviate a lot of the pain and suffering for all of those involved.

The family that attends our Family Program will be given the opportunity to learn from Dr. Kevin McCauley and Dr. Jerry Brown that there is hope, and that while their family member is in treatment, they can be growing, changing, and learning right along with them. The family members will also realize the role they can play to give their beloved family member the best chance at maintaining their recovery long-term.

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We hope that everyone takes the opportunity to grow with us and to have an experience that will truly bring your family together.

Facts about the Damage that Addiction Can Cause to the Family
National Statistics:

• More than half of all spouse and child abuse is directly tied to alcohol and drug abuse.
• Alcohol and drug-addicted persons are seven times more likely to divorce.
• More than 4 million women in this country, many of whom are mothers, abuse drugs.
• More than half of all traffic fatalities are related to alcohol and other forms of drug abuse.
• Non-alcoholic members of alcoholic families take considerably more sick leave than members of families in which alcoholism is not present.
• Alcohol is implicated in 20 percent of cases of maltreatment of children.
• An estimated 6.6 million children under the age of 18 live in households with at least one alcoholic parent.

Sadly, even if the woman who is abusing drugs or alcohol is able to keep up appearances to the outside world, family life often becomes intolerable for her loved ones. Yet they may try to cover up what is really happening because it's just too painful to admit their family is being torn apart by something they cannot control.

Desperate for change, family members may try to control events involving the substance abusing women as a response to her behavior. They may hide or throw out alcohol or drugs. They may repeatedly scold the abuser or try to shame her into promising to never use again. They may call in sick for the chemically dependent woman or lie to ensure the outside world doesn't find out the truth. Often, families become drawn into the substance abuser's sickness; they become co-dependent while trying desperately to make family life seem "normal."

Unfortunately, ignoring the problem or helping to cover things up isn't helping anyone. It certainly isn't helping children who may be living in the home. While they may seem oblivious to mommy's substance abuse, they are most certainly being affected – and not just temporarily.

If your family is being affected by drug or alcohol abuse, don't give up hope. It is statistically proven that when family, friends, or co-workers come together to help the chemically dependent person face her chemical dependency and realize the damage she is causing, that person agrees to treatment more than 90 percent of the time.

To find out if you or a loved one may be chemically dependent, there are questions you need to ask yourself. Please call us at (888) 471-0435 or fill out a confidential request for assessment.