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Families can be torn apart by the behaviour of the addicted person. We realize that you may have tried everything - scolding, pleading, shouting, threatening, ignoring - to try and motivate the person to change. You may now feel angry, lonely, exhausted and depressed. We understand that you may well have suffered just as much as the addicted person.
Most people in this situation need someone to talk to. Whether or not you have a loved one in treatment at Stepping Stones, please feel free to email or call Carry Bekker on +27 (0)21 783 4230 at any time.
You are also most welcome, by appointment, to attend our one-day Family Programme which runs every alternate Wednesday.
Family Programme
Research shows that family support and involvement in the client's treatment is one of the single biggest predictors of a successful recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction.
At Stepping Stones, we invest significant time and effort in families and partners, ensuring that they are involved throughout the individual client's treatment and, via our Family Programme, provided with the tools to commence their own healing. Families and significant others are also involved in counsellor-facilitated sessions with the client. Weekly family aftercare groups after treatment provide ongoing support.
Our Family Programme takes the form of a one-day workshop with the following aims:
- To give family members an understanding of the dynamics of addiction.
- To give family members an opportunity to share the often devastating effects of addiction on their own lives - this creates opportunities to support family members and helps break down their own denial and isolation.
- To assist the family with the changes they need to bring about in order to give the client the best opportunity to recover.
- To help the family create an infrastructure which gives the alcoholic/addict the best chance of recovery.
Structured Intervention - helping reluctant people into treatment
The myth of an addicted person needing to hit 'rock bottom', having to ask for help themselves or refusing to go for treatment, need no longer render the family powerless.
Structured intervention is a dynamic and highly effective way of getting the 'reluctant' addict into treatment. The purpose of an intervention is to create a 'crisis' by bringing together the meaningful people in the addicted person's life and having them present to him/her, in a caring and concerned way, the desperate reality of their addiction and their need for professional help.
We can help prepare you for an intervention. Please email or call Carry Bekker on +27 (0)21 783 4230 , for guidance and support.
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