Pine Grove is the first treatment facility in the country to offer our patients Debra Jay’s Structured Family Recovery Initiative. The whole family is affected by addiction and mental illness, and the whole family is part of the solution. Pine Grove’s Family Program assists families in understanding how they may become part of that solution, and Structured Family Recovery is an important aspect of our successful Family Program.
While most alcoholics and addicts coming out of treatment have a basic aftercare plan, families are often left in the dark. Our program offers a straightforward structured model that shows family members how to take personal responsibility and build a circle of support to meet the obstacles common to the first year of recovery.
Together, family members address the challenges of enabling, denial, and pain while developing their communication skills through practical, easy-to-follow strategies and exercises designed to create transparency and accountability.
The goal of the program is to have family members work together as they reinvent their relationships without the all-consuming destruction of active addiction.
Families leave with a year-long blueprint for family meetings, that include an introduction to the 12 Steps for families, weekly topics and readings, guidelines for discussion, directions for creating a relapse plan, and much more.
Our Structured Family Recovery Program outlines how each family member impacts a patient’s recovery after treatment. This creates a defined family support system which can provide empathy, understanding, and accountability once a patient completes residential treatment.
Using this approach, the family becomes an important element of their loved one’s recovery after treatment.
Families are also asked to:
By reading this book, family members and friends become part of the recovery team, beginning in the early stages of sobriety and treatment at Pine Grove. Our program offers a year-long blueprint for family meetings, that include an introduction to the 12 Steps, weekly topics and readings, guidelines for discussion, directions for creating a relapse plan, and much more.
Debra Jay is a consultant for Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services and founder of the Structured Family Recovery program, which is available to families in her latest book, It Takes a Family: A Cooperative Approach to Lasting Sobriety. She is the author of No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction as well as the bestseller, Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention. She also authored Aging and Addiction: Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence. Ms. Jay regularly appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show for 3 seasons as an addiction expert. She has also been a guest expert on The Dr. Oz Show. She is co-founder of a private practice providing Structured Family Recovery and Clinical Intervention services to families throughout the United States and internationally.
Lori Forseth is the clinical coordinator for Structured Family Recovery and is readily available to talk to families about how to work together to achieve lasting sobriety. She can answer family questions and offer guidance on getting started with Structured Family Recovery. Forseth graduated with distinction with degrees in psychology and sociology. She is also well acquainted with the 12-step programs that support family members who love someone with an alcohol or other drug problem.
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