Focus On Families

Working with and supporting families is central to our role as a treatment provider. Through advice and education our family programme helps the family understand their role in addiction and recovery. Family members need to realise and admit the part they might have played in enabling their addict; such as lying for them, giving them money or making excuses for them.

Families living with addiction need to be supported through the anxieties and issues they face. They also need an understanding of the treatment process their son/daughter/wife/father/husband/sibling is going through. Every family is different, so the programme and level of contact are designed to meet a family's individual needs. 

For the addict it is important to know that that his/her family is actively involved in the recovery process and is being supported. This gives the individual addict time to concentrate on their personal journey.

As well as individual family support we host regular Family Programmes - the next is planned for 25th February 2012.

VISITS

Family visits can be arranged on request through a counsellor and are usually permitted after Week 4-5, when everybody has had time apart to reflect.

Visits take place away from the Centre - families have a few hours together in the town of Weston-super-Mare, walking on the beach, having lunch or shopping, enjoying 'family time'. Click here for more information