About Our Family Programs

Denial is one of the chief symptoms of the family disease of alcoholism. Some of us deny our family members have a problem while others are all too willing to pass the blame and deny our own participation until a crisis emerges.

As we learn more about productive coping tools through interaction with other families, we become better able to face what is going on in our own families. As we develop healthy skills that address our needs, we see how we can support our loved ones.

Addiction is a chronic, progressive disease characterized by dysfunction in brain circuitry that leads to a pathological pursuit of reward and/or relief by substance abuse and other behaviors.

Our Family Program operates from the clinical belief that each family member has been impacted by addiction.

By exploring the family dynamics of others we are able to ask questions and share our thoughts and feelings more openly. With the absence of anger, resentment, fear and sadness, we can see how objective dialogue assists both patients and families in understanding the many different perspectives of this disease.

Your involvement and engagement in this therapeutic process directly affects the outcome of your loved one’s treatment.

Each day is extremely important and builds upon the previous one. We require you to commit to full participation for all of the consecutive days to maximize your benefit while minimizing disruption to others.

Please feel free call us with any questions at any time. 561-841-1296.

Family members need the fellowship and safety that 12-Step programs like Al-Anon provide. These support groups offer places for family members to explore their feelings while they give and receive both support and encouragement from others. Recovery meetings such as these are not affiliated with any particular enterprise or religious organization. There are no membership fees or dues, but donations are accepted at each meeting to help cover administrative costs. Membership is anonymous and anyone can join at anytime. Several types of meetings are available to address a variety of needs.

Let us know if you have questions about any of these 12-Step recovery programs:

• Al-Anon 
• ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) 
• Codependents Anonymous (CoDa) 
• Families Anonymous
• Emotions Anonymous
• Nar-Anon 

If you need help finding a meeting in your community, please contact one of our Origins Behavioral HealthCare’s Family Program counselors.

We have weekly free virtual support groups for families. Every Tuesday at 12:00PM EST and every Wednesday at 7PM EST. Join us on Zoom.

Meeting ID: 815 1713 9110
Passcode: 933323

Responses from family members may vary. Some are shocked or surprised that they have been identified as needing help and others may be angry and resistant to any new ideas. It is critical that family members hear the message that their involvement is welcome, but they deserve their own personal recovery as well. Helping families understand that participating in their own recovery improves their lives regardless of the patient’s choices is a fundamental message that must be conveyed and understood.

The intervention may vary from very subtle to very direct depending on the dynamics of the system. The initial response is usually “It’s not my problem” or “What and why are changes expected of me?” This is where psycho-education, conjoint sessions, and multi-family groups prove to be most effective.

Participation in the intensive Origins Behavioral HealthCare’s Five-Day Family Program in Florida is critical to the long-term recovery success of loved ones in treatment. Addressing the ripple effects of addiction throughout the family is an integral component of restoring healthy methods of communication, levels of trust, degrees of intimacy and elements of self-care for each individual within the family unit.

Multiple, consecutive days are necessary because this particular component of the comprehensive recovery process for addiction is progressive by design. Insights from each previous day gradually build upon each other. In this way, participation in the daily curriculum equips each family member with the precise tools and resources needed to journey farther down the pathway of identifying the many personal effects they have experienced as a result of damaged relationships.

Each Origins’ daily session is facilitated by family counselors who are specialists in dealing with issues of addiction. Various modalities such as psycho-education, conjoint family sessions and the opportunity to participate in multi-family groups are utilized resulting in an effective and highly engaging experience.

The comprehensive, five-day curriculum in Florida is designed to assist the identified Origins Behavioral HealthCare’s patient and family members in the development of a continuing care plan unique to their family’s needs. It is this care plan that will provide the bridge for transition from the safety of inpatient treatment to successful, long-term recovery.

Other family-centered approaches to recovery are available, such as Al-Anon. Please let us know if you have questions about what these 12-step recovery programs include.